Light guiding by effective gauge field for photons

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Lin, Qian ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; PHOTONS; WAVEGUIDES; GAGES; OPTICS; PHOTONICS;

DISPERSION RELATIONS; GAUGE FIELDS; LIGHT GUIDING; MECHANISM-BASED; ONE-WAY WAVEGUIDES; RECONFIGURABLE; WAVEGUIDE GEOMETRY; WAVEGUIDING; QUANTUM PHYSICS;

GAGES; LIGHT;

EID: 84907978531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031031     Document Type: Article

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