Publications

Recent

• Gayathry Rajeevan and Sebabrata Mukherjee, “Nonlinear Switch and Spatial Lattice Solitons of Photonic s-p Orbitals,” arXiv:2408.03250 (2024).

• Trideb Shit, Rishav Hui, Marco Di Liberto, Diptiman Sen, and Sebabrata Mukherjee, “Probing Two-body Bound States in the Continuum and Nonlinear Breathers Using Intensity Correlations,” arXiv:2402.18340 (2024), Supplementary movies

• Christina Jörg, Marius Jürgensen, Sebabrata Mukherjee, and Mikael C. Rechtsman, “Optical control of topological end states via soliton formation in a 1D lattice,” Nanophotonics (2024)

• Christopher Oliver, Sebabrata Mukherjee, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Iacopo Carusotto, and Hannah M. Price, “Artificial gauge fields in the t-z mapping for optical pulses: spatio-temporal wavepacket control and quantum Hall physics,” Science Advances 9, 42 eadj0360 (2023)
  

• Marius Jürgensen, Sebabrata Mukherjee, Christina Jörg and M C Rechtsman “Quantized Fractional Thouless Pumping of Solitons,” Nature Physics 19, 420-426 (2023)

• Sebabrata Mukherjee, and M C Rechtsman “Period-doubled Floquet Solitons,” arXiv:2208.02279 (2022), Optica 10, 1310-1315 (2023)
  

2021

• Sebabrata Mukherjee and Mikael C. Rechtsman, “Observation of unidirectional solitonlike edge states in nonlinear Floquet topological insulators,” Physical Review X 11, 041057 (2021)

• Marius Jürgensen, Sebabrata Mukherjee, and Mikael C. Rechtsman “Quantized nonlinear Thouless pumping,” Nature 596, 63-67 (2021)

2020

• Sebabrata Mukherjee and Mikael C. Rechtsman, “Observation of Floquet Solitons in a Topological Band Gap,” Science 368, 856 (2020). Perspective by Ablowitz and Cole, Science 368, 821 (2020). Press release: Penn State News, Phys.org

• Alexander Cerjan, Marius Jürgensen, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Sebabrata Mukherjee, and Mikael C. Rechtsman, “Observation of a higher-order topological bound state in the continuum”, Physical Review Letters 125, 213901 (2020). Editors’ Suggestion

• Harikumar K Chandrasekharan, Katjana Ehrlich, Michael G. Tanner, Dionne M. Haynes, Sebabrata Mukherjee, Tim A. Birks, and Robert R. Thomson, “Observing mode-dependent wavelength-to-time mapping in few-mode fibers using a single-photon detector array,” APL Photonics 5, 061303 (2020)

2019

• Marco Di Liberto, Sebabrata Mukherjee and Nathan Goldman, “Nonlinear dynamics of Aharonov-Bohm cages,” Physical Review A 100, 043829 (2019).

• David W. Canning, Ross J. Donaldson, Sebabrata Mukherjee, Ross J. Collings, Luca Mazzarella, Ugo Zanforlin, John Jeers, Robert R. Thomson, and Gerald S. Buller, “On-chip implementation of the probabilistic quantum optical state comparison amplifer,” Optics Express 27 (22), 31713- 31726 (2019)

2018

• Sebabrata Mukherjee, Marco Di Liberto, Patrik Öhberg, Robert R. Thomson, and Nathan Goldman, “Experimental Observation of Aharonov-Bohm Cages in Photonic Lattices,” Physical Review Letters 121, 075502 (2018). Highlighted on the cover page of Physical Review Letters 121 (7).

• Sebabrata Mukherjee, Harikumar K. Chandrasekharan, Patrik Öhberg, Nathan Goldman and Robert R. Thomson, “State-recycling and time-resolved imaging in topological photonic lattices,” Nature Communications 9, 4209 (2018). Press release: BBC News.

• Camilo Cantillano, Sebabrata Mukherjee, Luis Morales-Inostroza, Bastian Real, Gabriel Caceres- Aravena, Carla Hermann-Avigliano, Robert R. Thomson, and Rodrigo A. Vicencio, “Observation of Ground and Excited Flat Band States in Graphene Photonic Ribbons,” New Journal of Physics 20, 033028 (2018)

2017

• Sebabrata Mukherjee, Alexander Spracklen, Manuel Valiente, Erika Andersson, Patrik Öhberg, Nathan Goldman, and Robert R. Thomson, “Experimental observation of anomalous topological edge modes in a slowly driven photonic lattice,” Nature Communications 8, 13918 (2017).

• Sebabrata Mukherjee, Dmitri Mogilevtsev, Gregory Ya Slepyan, Thomas H. Doherty, Robert R. Thomson, and Natalia Korolkova, “Dissipatively coupled waveguide networks for coherent diffusive photonics,” Nature Communications 8, 1909 (2017)

• Sebabrata Mukherjee, and Robert R. Thomson, “Observation of robust flat-band localization in driven photonic rhombic lattices,” Optics Letters 42 (12) 2243-2246 (2017)

2016

• Sebabrata Mukherjee, Manuel Valiente, Nathan Goldman, Alexander Spracklen, Erika Andersson, Patrik Öhberg, and Robert R. Thomson, “Observation of pair tunneling and coherent destruction of tunneling in arrays of optical waveguides,” Physical Review A 94 (5), 053853 (2016)

• Yves Bellouard, Audrey Champion, Benjamin McMillen, Sebabrata Mukherjee, Robert R. Thomson, Charles Pepin, Philippe Gillet, and Ya Cheng, “Stress-state manipulation in fused silica via femtosecond laser irradiation,” Optica 3 (12), 1285-1293 (2016)

2015

• Sebabrata Mukherjee, Alexander Spracklen, Debaditya Choudhury, Nathan Goldman, Patrik Öhberg, Erika Andersson and Robert R. Thomson,, “Observation of a localized flat-band state in a photonic Lieb lattice,” Physical Review Letters 114, 245504 (2015). Featured in Physics & Editors’ Suggestion. Viewpoint in Physical Review Letters doi:10.1103/Physics.8.55.
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• Sebabrata Mukherjee and Robert R. Thomson, “Observation of localized flat-band modes in a quasi-one-dimensional photonic rhombic lattice,” Optics Letters 40 (23), 5443-5446 (2015)

• Sebabrata Mukherjee, Alexander Spracklen, Debaditya Choudhury, Nathan Goldman, Patrik Öhberg, Erika Andersson, and Robert R. Thomson, “Modulation-assisted tunneling in laserfabricated photonic Wannier-Stark ladders,” New Journal of Physics 17, 115002 (2015)

2014

• Alexander Arriola, Sebabrata Mukherjee, Debaditya Choudhury, Lucas Labadie, and Robert R. Thomson, “Ultrafast laser inscription of mid-IR directional couplers for stellar interferometry,” Optics Letters 39 (16), 4820-4822 (2014)