Topological Photonics

Andrea Blanco-Redondo is the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence Endowed Professor of Optics and Photonics at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States. Her research interests span from nonlinear optics to quantum optics and topological photonics, generally on nanophotonics platforms. Hannah Price is a Royal Society University Research Fellow, a Birmingham Fellow and a Proleptic Reader at the University of Birmingham in the UK, where her research group focuses on the creation and study of topological phases of matter in photonics and ultracold gases. Before arriving in Birmingham, she completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2013, and then worked at the INO-CNR BEC Center at the University of Trento in Italy, first as a postdoctoral researcher (2013-2015) and then on a Marie Skłodowska–Curie Individual Fellowship (2015-2017). Hannah has published over 30 peer-reviewed publications, and is an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Physics: Photonics. She was awarded the 2018 James Clerk-Maxwell Medal by the UK Institute of Physics for exceptional early-career contributions to theoretical physics, as well as the 2018 Aston Webb Award for Outstanding Early Career Academic by the University of Birmingham. Professor Khajavikhan joined the faculty of the University of Southern California in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering in August 2019 as an Associate Professor. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2009. She joined the University of California in San Diego as a postdoctoral researcher, where she worked on nanolasers, plasmonic devices, and silicon photonics components. In August 2012, she started her career as an Assistant Professor in the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida (UCF), working on novel phenomena in active photonic systems. She is the recipient of the NSF Early CAREER Award in 2015, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2016, the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2018, the UCF Reach for the Stars Award in 2017, and UCF Luminary Award in 2018. She is currently holding the IBM Early Career Chair at USC. Daniel Leykam is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore. Prior to this he completed his PhD at The Australian National University in 2015, worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2015 – 2017), and was a Young Scientist Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Institute for Basic Science, Korea (2017 – 2020). His research interests broadly cover applications of topology to nonlinear optics, quantum photonics, and machine learning. Daniel has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications, serves as an Associate Editor of Physical Review A, and is the recipient of the 2017 Australian Institute of Physics Bragg Medal for the most outstanding PhD thesis completed at an Australian university.

• SECTION 1: Fundamentals of Topological Photonics1. Introduction2. Topological photonics in 1D3. Topological photonics in 2D4. Topological photonics in 3D5. Topological photonics in synthetic dimensions6. Non-Hermitian topological phasesSECTION 2: Applications of Topological Photonics7. Applications of topological photonics in laser systems8. Applications of topological photonics in quantum technologies9. Applications of topological photonics in Sensing/Metrology10. Applications of topological photonics to optical waveguiding and large-scale optical integration