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Valley-Hall Photonic Waveguide — Topological Kink States

Interactive valley-Hall photonic topological insulator: launch light pulses along a domain-wall waveguide between two honeycomb photonic lattices with opposite valley Chern number and watch them turn a sharp bend and dodge a defect without backscattering, versus an ordinary line-defect waveguide that reflects.

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This simulator renders a honeycomb photonic crystal split into two domains whose rod-size asymmetry has opposite sign, which gives them opposite valley Chern number. The interface between the domains hosts a topologically protected "kink" edge state, and the scene fires light pulses along it — through a sharp 90°-ish bend and past a tunable local defect — to show them pass through with only weak loss. Flip to the conventional line-defect waveguide mode to see the same bend and defect strongly reflect an ordinary, unprotected guided mode. Live readouts track transmission, the edge mode's group velocity, and the valley Chern contrast across the interface.

⚙ Under the hood

Launch light pulses along the domain wall between two honeycomb photonic crystals with opposite valley Chern number and watch them turn a sharp bend and dodge a defect without backscattering, versus an ordinary line-defect waveguide that reflects.

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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install