Topologically tuned terahertz confinement in a nonlinear photonic chip

分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Jiayi Wang Shiqi Xia Ride Wang Ruobin Ma Yao Lu Xinzheng Zhang Daohong Song Qiang Wu Roberto Morandotti Jingjun Xu Zhigang Chen

摘要： Compact terahertz (THz) functional devices are greatly sought after for high-speed wireless communication, biochemical sensing, and non-destructive inspection. However, conventional devices to generate and guide THz waves are afflicted with diffraction loss and disorder due to inevitable fabrication defects. Here, based on the topological protection of electromagnetic waves, we demonstrate nonlinear generation and topologically tuned confinement of THz waves in a judiciously-patterned lithium niobate chip forming a wedge-shaped Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice. Experimentally measured band structures provide direct visualization of the generated THz waves in momentum space, and their robustness to chiral perturbation is also analyzed and compared between topologically trivial and nontrivial regimes. Such chip-scale control of THz waves may bring about new possibilities for THz integrated topological circuits, promising for advanced photonic applications.

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