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Exceptional Points in the Dispersion of Optically Anisotropic Planar Microcavities

Richter, Steffen LU ; Zuniga-Perez, Jesus ; Deparis, Christiane ; Trefflich, Lukas ; Zirnstein, Heinrich Gregor ; Sturm, Chris ; Rosenow, Bernd ; Grundmann, Marius and Schmidt-Grund, Rudiger (2018) 2018 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series, SUM 2018 In IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series, SUM 2018 p.195-196
Abstract

When incorporating anisotropic materials, planar microcavities can give rise to exceptional points, i.e. propagation directions along which two otherwise polarization-split photonic modes degenerate in energy and broadening. They are non-Hermitian degeneracies revealing complex-square-root topology and chiral eigenstates. We show computations and experiments on ZnO-based microcavities.

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keywords
exceptional points, microcavity, non-Hermitian, polarization vortex, singular axes
host publication
IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series, SUM 2018
series title
IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series, SUM 2018
article number
8456770
pages
2 pages
publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
conference name
2018 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series, SUM 2018
conference location
Waikoloa, United States
conference dates
2018-07-09 - 2018-07-11
external identifiers
  • scopus:85054155855
ISBN
9781538653432
DOI
10.1109/PHOSST.2018.8456770
language
English
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no
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Publisher Copyright: © 2018 IEEE.
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  abstract     = {{<p>When incorporating anisotropic materials, planar microcavities can give rise to exceptional points, i.e. propagation directions along which two otherwise polarization-split photonic modes degenerate in energy and broadening. They are non-Hermitian degeneracies revealing complex-square-root topology and chiral eigenstates. We show computations and experiments on ZnO-based microcavities.</p>}},
  author       = {{Richter, Steffen and Zuniga-Perez, Jesus and Deparis, Christiane and Trefflich, Lukas and Zirnstein, Heinrich Gregor and Sturm, Chris and Rosenow, Bernd and Grundmann, Marius and Schmidt-Grund, Rudiger}},
  booktitle    = {{IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series, SUM 2018}},
  isbn         = {{9781538653432}},
  keywords     = {{exceptional points; microcavity; non-Hermitian; polarization vortex; singular axes}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{09}},
  pages        = {{195--196}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  series       = {{IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series, SUM 2018}},
  title        = {{Exceptional Points in the Dispersion of Optically Anisotropic Planar Microcavities}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2018.8456770}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/PHOSST.2018.8456770}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}