Topological photonics in synthetic dimensions |
| TYPE | Solid State Institute Seminar |
| Speaker: | Mr. Eran Lusting |
| Affiliation: | Physics Department and The Solid State Institute Technion |
| Date: | 19.01.2022 |
| Time: | 12:30 - 13:30 |
| Location: | Solid State Auditorium(Entrance) |
| Remark: | Ph.D. student of Distinguished Professor Mordechai Segev |
| Presentation: |  |
| Abstract: | Join Zoom Meeting https://technion.zoom.us/j/92663196163
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in utilizing synthetic (non-spatial) dimensions for experimentally studying topological phenomena in physics. Synthetic dimensions are linked to increasing the dimensionality, inducing long-range connectivity, and other surprising effects in a plethora of physical systems. In this seminar, I will explain how to observe new physics by utilizing these dimensions. I will present our first demonstration of 2D and 3D photonic topological insulators in synthetic dimensions and show how these effects can be used to achieve multi laser mode-locking. Finally, I will discuss how this approach is linked to “photonic time crystals” and our latest experimental results in observing materials that change their macroscopic behavior abruptly in time |