Comparison of the Edge Excitation between Topologically Trivial and Nontrivial SSH Lattices (IMAGE)

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Comparison of the Edge Excitation between Topologically Trivial and Nontrivial SSH Lattices

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The two illustrations show the tilted excitation (green arrows) for nontrivial (left) and trivial (right) lattices, where the red dot marks the position of the nontrivial edge. (a1-b2) The experimental results obtained with the nontrivial lattice, where (a1) shows the written SSH waveguide lattice examined by a probe beam, (a2) shows the output of a topological edge state under normal (straight) excitation, and (b1) and (b2) show the outputs with a tilted beam in linear and nonlinear cases. (b3) The simulation results show a side-view (up to a crystal length of 20 mm) of the beam dynamics under nonlinear excitation. The right panels (c1-d3) have the same layout as the left panels except that the results are obtained with the trivial lattice. The white dashed-dotted line marks the edge position of the SSH lattice in all ?gures.

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by Shiqi Xia, DarioJuki?, NanWang, DariaSmirnova, LevSmirnov, Liqin Tang, Daohong Song, Alexander Szameit, Daniel Leykam, JingjunXu, Zhigang Chen and Hrvoje Buljan

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