Topological Photonics
Fundamentals and Applications
Photonic Materials and Applications Series

Coordinators: Blanco-Redondo Andrea, Price Hannah, Khajavikhan Mercedeh, Leykam Daniel

Language: English

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Topological Photonics: Fundamentals and Applications provides an introduction to key principles and advances in our understanding of topology and the design of new photonic materials systems and their applications. Sections cover the necessary fundamental concepts to understand the field, starting from background discoveries in condensed matter physics and delving into describing the underlying concepts and the experimental progress in 1D, 2D, 3D topological photonics systems as well as in synthetic dimensions and non-Hermitian platforms. Other sections highlight the most promising applications of topological photonics, including current progress and the most important challenges. This book is suitable for those working in academia and R&D in the subject areas of materials science and engineering?particularly researchers and practitioners working in the research fields of topological materials, optics, and photonics.

SECTION 1: Fundamentals of Topological Photonics 1. Introduction 2. Topological photonics in 1D 3. Topological photonics in 2D 4. Topological photonics in 3D 5. Topological photonics in synthetic dimensions 6. Non-Hermitian topological phases SECTION 2: Applications of Topological Photonics 7. Applications of topological photonics in laser systems 8. Applications of topological photonics in quantum technologies 9. Applications of topological photonics in Sensing/Metrology 10. Applications of topological photonics to optical waveguiding and large-scale optical integration

Andrea Blanco-Redondo is the Head of the Silicon Photonics department at Nokia Bell Labs in New Jersey, USA, where her research focuses on nonlinear integrated optics and topological quantum photonics. From 2015-2019, she was the Professor Harry Messel Research Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Physics of the University of Sydney, Australia, and from 2007-2015 she was a photonics researcher and a project manager with the Aerospace and Telecom departments of Tecnalia, Spain. She got her MSc and PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of Valladolid, Spain, and at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Andrea has published over 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications. She is the recipient of the 2018 OSA Ambassador recognition, the 2016 Geoff Opat Award of the Australian Optical Society to the top Australian Early Career Researcher, and a 2014 Ada Byron Award to the top Women in Technology in Spain.
Hannah Price is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, a Birmingham Fellow and a Proleptic Reader at the University of Birmingham in the UK, where her research group focuses on the creation and study of topological phases of matter in photonics and ultracold gases. Before arriving in Birmingham, she completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2013, and then worked at the INO-CNR BEC Center at the University of Trento in Italy, first as a postdoctoral researcher (2013-2015) and then on a Marie Sklodowska–Curie Individual Fellowship (2015-2017). Hannah has published over 30 peer-reviewed publications, and is an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Physics: Photonics. She was awarded the 2018 James Clerk-Maxwell Medal by the UK Institute of Physics for exceptional early-career contributions to theoretical physics, as well as the 2018 Aston Webb Award for Outstanding Early Career Academic by the University of Birmingham.
Professor Khajavikhan joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the Ming Hsieh Departm
  • Introduces the fundamental principles of topological photonics and their application in the design of photonic systems
  • Reviews the models, experimental progress, and challenges and limitations of emerging topological photonic systems
  • Discusses the future prospects and challenges of applications of topological photonics in lasers, quantum technologies, sensors, and integrated optics