Observation of nonlinear fractal higher-order topological insulator
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| author | Kompanets, Victor O. Zhong, Hua Zhang, Yiqi Kartashov, Yaroslav V. Li, Yongdong Zhuravitskii, Sergei A. Skryabin, Nikolay N. Dyakonov, Ivan V. Kalinkin, Alexander A. Kulik, Sergei P. Chekalin, Sergey V. Zadkov, Victor N. |
| author_facet | Kompanets, Victor O. Zhong, Hua Zhang, Yiqi Kartashov, Yaroslav V. Li, Yongdong Zhuravitskii, Sergei A. Skryabin, Nikolay N. Dyakonov, Ivan V. Kalinkin, Alexander A. Kulik, Sergei P. Chekalin, Sergey V. Zadkov, Victor N. |
| contents | Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are unique materials hosting topologically protected states, whose dimensionality is at least by a factor of 2 lower than that of the bulk. Topological states in such insulators may be strongly confined in their corners that leads to considerable enhancement of nonlinear processes involving such states. However, all nonlinear HOTIs demonstrated so far were built on periodic bulk lattice materials. Here we demonstrate first \textit{nonlinear photonic} HOTI with the fractal origin. Despite their fractional effective dimensionality, the HOTIs constructed here on two different types of the Sierpiński gasket waveguide arrays, may support topological corner states for unexpectedly wide range of coupling strengths, even in parameter regions where conventional HOTIs become trivial. We demonstrate thresholdless solitons bifurcating from corner states in nonlinear fractal HOTIs and show that their localization can be efficiently controlled by the input beam power. We observe sharp differences in nonlinear light localization on outer and multiple inner corners and edges representative for these fractal materials. Our findings not only represent a new paradigm for nonlinear topological insulators, but also open new avenues for potential applications of fractal materials to control the light flow. |
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| spellingShingle | Observation of nonlinear fractal higher-order topological insulator Kompanets, Victor O. Zhong, Hua Zhang, Yiqi Kartashov, Yaroslav V. Li, Yongdong Zhuravitskii, Sergei A. Skryabin, Nikolay N. Dyakonov, Ivan V. Kalinkin, Alexander A. Kulik, Sergei P. Chekalin, Sergey V. Zadkov, Victor N. Optics Pattern Formation and Solitons Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are unique materials hosting topologically protected states, whose dimensionality is at least by a factor of 2 lower than that of the bulk. Topological states in such insulators may be strongly confined in their corners that leads to considerable enhancement of nonlinear processes involving such states. However, all nonlinear HOTIs demonstrated so far were built on periodic bulk lattice materials. Here we demonstrate first \textit{nonlinear photonic} HOTI with the fractal origin. Despite their fractional effective dimensionality, the HOTIs constructed here on two different types of the Sierpiński gasket waveguide arrays, may support topological corner states for unexpectedly wide range of coupling strengths, even in parameter regions where conventional HOTIs become trivial. We demonstrate thresholdless solitons bifurcating from corner states in nonlinear fractal HOTIs and show that their localization can be efficiently controlled by the input beam power. We observe sharp differences in nonlinear light localization on outer and multiple inner corners and edges representative for these fractal materials. Our findings not only represent a new paradigm for nonlinear topological insulators, but also open new avenues for potential applications of fractal materials to control the light flow. |
| title | Observation of nonlinear fractal higher-order topological insulator |
| topic | Optics Pattern Formation and Solitons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01979 |