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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Christian Johnson-Richards, Professor Alex YakovlevORCiD, Dr Victor Pacheco PenaORCiD
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Topological boundary modes utilizing valley mode waveguides have opened opportunities in, for instance, the design of high transmission waveguides with tolerance to geometrical defects and sharp bends. Applications of these waveguides include linear computational processes and the emulation of logic gates using linear structures, among other scenarios. Herein, the design of a 6-port junction that exhibits equal power splitting to three other ports when excited at single port with no reflections is presented. In studying this structure, a scattering matrix is extracted at telecom wavelengths (around 1550 nm). The linearity of the system along with the scattering matrix is exploited to produce linear operations such as routing of information considering two incident signals or multiple signals applied from different ports. These results may be exploited to analytically design larger networks without the need of computationally expensive trial and error methods.
Author(s): Johnson-Richards C, Yakovlev A, Pacheco-Peña V
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Advanced Photonics Research
Year: 2025
Volume: 6
Issue: 11
Print publication date: 01/11/2025
Online publication date: 22/09/2025
Acceptance date: 27/07/2025
Date deposited: 23/09/2025
ISSN (print): 2699-9293
ISSN (electronic): 2699-9293
Publisher: Wiley
URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/adpr.202500006
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202500006
Data Access Statement: The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
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