Topological Photonic Microdevices for Next-Generation Sensing and Modulation
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A1: Optical MEMS and Photonic Microsystems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photonic crystal; topological photonics; optoelectronic devices; tunable photonic devices; metaphotonics
Interests: silicon photonic devices and integration; photonic signal processing and applications; transmission, switching and sensing photonics
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Dear Colleagues,
Topological photonics is a rapidly evolving research field that leverages geometrical and topological concepts to design photonic structures to control the behavior of light. Inspired by the discovery of the quantum Hall effects and topological insulators in condensed matter, recent research in topological photonics has proposed and realized novel topological phenomena, primarily the robust unidirectional broadband propagation of light, which has also been experimentally demonstrated by designing and fabricating photonic devices with high performance and immunity to fabrication errors, including defects or disorders. This holds great promise for various applications. The flexibility and diversity of topological photonics systems open up new opportunities to realize exotic topological models and to probe and exploit topological effects in new ways. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on experimental and theoretical developments in topological photonics across a wide range of experimental platforms, including photonic crystals, waveguides, metamaterials, cavities, optomechanics, silicon photonics, circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED), and related applications, including on-chip communication, optical switches, lasers, sensors, terahertz devices, quantum information systems, beam splitters, etc.
Prof. Dr. Hongming Fei
Prof. Dr. Jianping Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photonic topological insulator
- synthetic dimension
- non-Hermitian system
- photonic crystal
- metamaterial
- high-order topology
- quantum Hall effect
- quantum spin Hall effect
- coupled cavities/resonators
- topological edge states
- Anderson localization
- nonlinear effects
- quantum topological photonics
- topological lasers
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