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Metamaterials offer unprecedented opportunity to engineer fundamental band dispersions which enable novel optoelectronic functionalities and devices. Precise control of photonic degrees of freedom can always succeed to manipulate the flow of light. For example, photonic net spin flows such as one-way transports and spin-directional locking have been realized at the boundary of topologically-protected photonic metacrystals. But this is not the only way to achieve net spin flow in solid state systems. Valley degree of freedom may provide a new route to modulate the spin flow in bulk crystals without the assist of boundary. Here, we show the molding of spin flow of light in valley photonic crystals. The coupled valley and spin physics is illustrated analytically. The associated photonic valley Hall effect and unidirectional net spin flow are well demonstrated inside the bulk crystals, instead of the assist of topologically non-triviality. We also show the independent control of valley and topology, resulting in a topologically protected flat edge state. Valley photonic crystals may open up a new route towards the discovery of fundamentally novel states of light and possible revolutionary applications.
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Jian-Wen Dong, Xiao-Dong Chen, Hanyu Zhu, Yuan Wang, Xiang Zhang, "Molding the spin flow of light in valley photonic crystals
(Conference Presentation)," Proc. SPIE 9918, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2016, 99181A (9 November 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2237148