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Topological Photonics

Fundamentals and Applications

  • 1st Edition - November 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Andrea Blanco-Redondo, Hannah Price, Mercedeh Khajavikhan, Daniel Leykam
  • Language: English

Topological Photonics: Fundamentals and Applications provides an introduction to the key principles of topological photonics and an overview of the fundamental advances and appli… Read more

Description

Topological Photonics: Fundamentals and Applications provides an introduction to the key principles of topological photonics and an overview of the fundamental advances and applications of this field.

The first half of the book explores the necessary fundamental concepts to understand the field, starting from background discoveries in condensed matter physics and then describing the underlying concepts and experimental progress in 1D, 2D, and 3D topological photonics systems, as well as in synthetic dimensions. The second half highlights the most promising applications of topological photonics, including the current progress and most important challenges for each of them.

Topological Photonics is suitable for those working in academia and research and development in the subject areas of materials science and engineering, particularly researchers and practitioners working in the research fields of topological materials, optics, and photonics.

Key features

  • Introduces the fundamental principles of topological photonics and their application in the design of photonic systems
  • Reviews the models, experimental progress, and challenges and limitations of emerging topological photonic systems
  • Discusses the future prospects and challenges of applications of topological photonics in lasers, quantum technologies, sensors, and integrated optics

Readership

Materials Scientists and Engineers Electrical Engineers, Physicists

Table of contents

SECTION 1: Fundamentals of Topological Photonics

1. Introduction

2. Topological photonics in 1D

3. Topological photonics in 2D

4. Topological photonics in 3D

5. Topological photonics in synthetic dimensions

6. Non-Hermitian topological phases

SECTION 2: Applications of Topological Photonics

7. Applications of topological photonics in laser systems

8. Applications of topological photonics in quantum technologies

9. Applications of topological photonics in Sensing/Metrology

10. Applications of topological photonics to optical waveguiding and large-scale optical integration

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Andrea Blanco-Redondo

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Florida Photonics Center of Excellence Endowed Professor of Optics and Photonics

HP

Hannah Price

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Royal Society University Research Fellow, a Birmingham Fellow and Proleptic Reader, University of Birmingham, UK

MK

Mercedeh Khajavikhan

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA

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Daniel Leykam

Daniel Leykam is an Associate Professor in the Science, Mathematics, and Technology Cluster at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. His research interests broadly cover applications of topology to nonlinear optics, quantum photonics, and machine learning.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Science, Mathematics, and Technology Cluster, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore