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ArticleNature communications2024

Floquet parity-time symmetry in integrated photonics.

Weijie Liu, Quancheng Liu, Xiang Ni, Yuechen Jia, Klaus Ziegler, Andrea Alù, Feng Chen

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Weijie Liu *School of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, 250100, Jinan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7005-6099
Quancheng Liu *Department of Physics, Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3957-0353
Xiang Ni *School of Physics, Central South University, 410083, Changsha, Hunan, China.
Yuechen JiaSchool of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, 250100, Jinan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3852-7302
Klaus ZieglerInstitut für Physik, Universität Augsburg, 86135, Augsburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7050-3883
Andrea AlùPhotonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA. aalu@gc.cuny.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4297-5274
Feng ChenSchool of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, 250100, Jinan, China. drfchen@sdu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9277-9810

Funding

Israel Science Foundation (ISF) 1614/21National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 12174222Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation) ZR2021ZD02Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province tspd20210303
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Abstract

Parity-time (PT) symmetry has been unveiling new photonic regimes in non-Hermitian systems, with opportunities for lasing, sensing and enhanced light-matter interactions. The most exotic responses emerge at the exceptional point (EP) and in the broken PT-symmetry phase, yet in conventional PT-symmetric systems these regimes require large levels of gain and loss, posing remarkable challenges in practical settings. Floquet PT-symmetry, which may be realized by periodically flipping the effective gain/loss distribution in time, can relax these requirements and tailor the EP and PT-symmetry phases through the modulation period. Here, we explore Floquet PT-symmetry in an integrated photonic waveguide platform, in which the role of time is replaced by the propagation direction. We experimentally demonstrate spontaneous PT-symmetry breaking at small gain/loss levels and efficient control of amplification and suppression through the excitation ports. Our work introduces the advantages of Floquet PT-symmetry in a practical integrated photonic setting, enabling a powerful platform to observe PT-symmetric phenomena and leverage their extreme features, with applications in nanophotonics, coherent control of nanoscale light amplification and routing.

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