What is it about?
Using standard tools of microwave engineering, this paper demonstrates a simple, high efficiency transition between a classical transmission line and a topologically robust transmission line. With it, we are able to quantitatively analyze the practical benefits of many proposed devices that use these new types of transmission lines.
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Why is it important?
Decades of research on topological physics has yielded many interesting devices and exciting proposals, but hardly any details on how they might one day be used in practical settings. Moreover, many of the most recent efforts for topological devices in the electromagnetics world have been heavily focused towards the physics, rather than engineering, community. By showing how a standard transmission line, understood and used for decades by the microwave community, can be efficiently connected to a cutting-edge topological version, our paper shows how these new devices might be integrated with existing technology. Likewise, it also enables simple characterization and performance evaluations via ordinary scattering parameters with a VNA, rather than the difficult measurements common for these devices.
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This page is a summary of: Classical-to-topological transmission line couplers, Applied Physics Letters, March 2021, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0041055.
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