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Topological Lasers

Gal Harari, Miguel A. Bandres, Yaakov Lumer, Yonatan Plotnik, Demetri N. Christodoulides, Mordechai Segev

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2016 · 12 citations · 11 references

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Abstract

We present the first topological laser: topologically-protected lasing in photonic honeycomb lattices. We show that the lasing modes are unidirectional and robust to defects.

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