Abstract
We demonstrate all robust bound states in the continuum in photonic crystal slabs are vortex centers in the polarization directions of far-field radiation. They are robust because they carry quantized topological charges, which are conserved if the system is invariant under parity-time (PT) and up-down mirror flip operations.
© 2014 Optical Society of America
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