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Chiral Waveguides for Robust Waveguiding at the Deep Subwavelength Scale

Orazbayev, Bakhtiyar  
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Kaina, Nadège Sihame  
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Fleury, Romain  
November 30, 2018
Physical Review Applied

Routing electromagnetic energy at a scale smaller than the wavelength is a highly sought functionality in a variety of applications, including compact lightweight satellite communications, slow-waves sensors, all-optical information processing, and energy harvesting. Unfortunately, strong field confinement at this scale requires the use of coupled subwavelength resonators, implying a large sensitivity to geometrical imperfections and disorder-induced backscattering. We propose a very unconventional solution to this problem by exploiting the interface modes occurring at the boundary between two chiral metamaterials composed of resonant metamolecules with opposite chirality. Our numerical and experimental results demonstrate the inherent robustness of these interface states to disorder in both the position and resonance frequency of the metamaterial’s meta-atoms. By computing transmission averages over many realizations of disorder, we quantitatively demonstrate the superiority of this form of subwavelength routing over previously proposed designs, including frequency-defect lines, symmetry-based topological edge modes, and Valley-Hall interface states.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevApplied.10.054069
Author(s)
Orazbayev, Bakhtiyar  
Kaina, Nadège Sihame  
Fleury, Romain  
Date Issued

2018-11-30

Published in
Physical Review Applied
Volume

10

Issue

5

Start page

1

End page

10, 054069

Subjects

waveguides

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metamaterials

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chirality

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topological insulators

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electromagnetic wave theory

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LWE  
FunderGrant Number

EU funding

798556

Available on Infoscience
December 3, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/151672
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