Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Definite photon deflections of topological defects in metasurfaces and symmetry-breaking phase transitions with material loss

  • Chong Sheng,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Huanyang Chen,
  • Shining Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06718-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Photonic structures can be used to simulate fundamental physical phenomena like the optical analog of gravity. Here, the authors use metasurface-engineered waveguides to emulate the optical effects of a topological defect on space-time.