Topological photonics

In recent years topological photonics has been realized in multitude of platforms. It has gained attention due the presence of unidirectional chiral propagation of light via the edge states which are again immue to any disorder in the system. Such system can open path to plethora of application in many body physics, strong ight matter interaction , quantum hall physics of light. In our roup we focus on studying the strong light matter interaction via a topological waveguide in a planar photonic crystal geometry.