Feature issue introduction: Topological Photonics and Materials

Jensen Li, Zubin Jacob, and Takeshige Omatsu

Opt. Express 26(19), 25507-25509 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonic Weyl phase transition in dynamically modulated brick-wall waveguide arrays

Chengzhi Qin, Qingjie Liu, Bing Wang, and Peixiang Lu

Opt. Express 26(16), 20929-20943 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Scheme for media conversion between electronic spin and photonic orbital angular momentum based on photonic nanocavity

Chee Fai Fong, Yasutomo Ota, Satoshi Iwamoto, and Yasuhiko Arakawa

Opt. Express 26(16), 21219-21234 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Topological whispering gallery modes in two-dimensional photonic crystal cavities

Yuting Yang and Zhi Hong Hang

Opt. Express 26(16), 21235-21241 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Few-layer Bi₂Te₃: an effective 2D saturable absorber for passive Q-switching of compact solid-state lasers in the 1-μm region

Jingnan Yang, Kan Tian, Yuhang Li, Xiaodan Dou, Yanjun Ma, Wenjuan Han, Honghao Xu, and Junhai Liu

Opt. Express 26(17), 21379-21389 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Optimization of the probability of orbital angular momentum for Laguerre-Gaussian beam in Kolmogorov and non-Kolmogorov turbulence

Yangsheng Yuan, Dong Liu, Zhengxian Zhou, Huafeng Xu, Jun Qu, and Yangjian Cai

Opt. Express 26(17), 21861-21871 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Topological dynamics and excitations in lasers and condensates with saturable gain or loss

Simon Malzard, Emiliano Cancellieri, and Henning Schomerus

Opt. Express 26(17), 22506-22518 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Spin photonic forces in non-reciprocal waveguides

Sarang Pendharker, Farid Kalhor, Todd Van Mechelen, Saman Jahani, Neda Nazemifard, Thomas Thundat, and Zubin Jacob

Opt. Express 26(18), 23898-23910 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Transitional Goos-Hänchen effect due to the topological phase transitions

Weijie Wu, Wenshuai Zhang, Shizhen Chen, Xiaohui Ling, Weixing Shu, Hailu Luo, Shuangchun Wen, and Xiaobo Yin

Opt. Express 26(18), 23705-23713 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Z₂ topological edge state in honeycomb lattice of coupled resonant optical waveguides with a flat band

Xue-Yi Zhu, Samit Kumar Gupta, Xiao-Chen Sun, Cheng He, Gui-Xin Li, Jian-Hua Jiang, Xiao-Ping Liu, Ming-Hui Lu, and Yan-Feng Chen

Opt. Express 26(19), 24307-24317 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Photonics meets topology

Bi-Ye Xie, Hong-Fei Wang, Xue-Yi Zhu, Ming-Hui Lu, Z. D. Wang, and Yan-Feng Chen

Opt. Express 26(19), 24531-24550 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF

Parity-time symmetry in periodically curved optical waveguides

Yan-Rong Zhang, Ze-Zheng Zhang, Jia-Qi Yuan, Wei Wang, Lu-Qi Wang, Zheng-Xian Li, Rui-Dong Xue, and Jing Chen

Opt. Express 26(21), 27141-27152 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Single-transverse-mode broadband InAs quantum dot superluminescent light emitting diodes by parity-time symmetry

Ruizhe Yao, Chi-Sen Lee, Viktor Podolskiy, and Wei Guo

Opt. Express 26(23), 30588-30595 (2018)  View: HTML | PDF