Two kinds of phase transition in photonic systems with application to optical isolation

• Main Author: Zhou, Xin
• Other Authors: Chong Yidong
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83259; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48005
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis concerns the study of two kinds of phase transitions, parity-time(P T ) symmetric phase transitions and topological phase transitions, using photonic sys- tems. In the first part of the thesis, we perform a theoretical study of the nonlinear dynamics of a nonlinear optical isolator d...