Observation of a Photonic Orbital Gauge Field

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 36(2024), 14 vom: 25. Apr., Seite e2310010
1. Verfasser: Chang, Yi-Jun (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Sheng, Chong, Yang, Ying-Yue, Lu, Yong-Heng, Wang, Yao, Wang, Hui-Ming, Gao, Mingyuan, Wu, Shi-Bao, Liu, Hui, Zhu, Shining, Jin, Xian-Min
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article disclination defect orbital gauge field photonic waveguide chip vortex light
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Zusammenfassung:© 2024 Wiley‐VCH GmbH.
Gauge field is widely studied in natural and artificial materials. With an effective magnetic field for uncharged particles, many intriguing phenomena are observed in several systems like photonic Floquet topological insulator. However, previous researches about the gauge field mostly focus on limited dimensions such as the Dirac spinor in graphene materials. Here, an orbital gauge field based on photonic triangular lattices is first proposed and experimentally observed. Disclination defects with Frank angle Ω created on such lattices breaks the original lattice symmetry and generates purely geometric gauge field operating on orbital basis functions. Interestingly, it is found that bound states near zero energy with the orbital angular momentum (OAM) l = 2 are intensively confined at the disclination as gradually expanding Ω. Moreover, the introduction of a vector potential field breaks the time-reversal symmetry of the orbital gauge field, experimentally manifested by the chiral transmission of light on helical waveguides. The orbital gauge field further suggests fantastic applications of manipulating the vortex light in photonic integrated devices
Beschreibung:Date Revised 04.04.2024
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.202310010