The invention discloses a thermo-optical tuning
photonic crystal topological hysteretic
system, a
photonic crystal and a preparation method and application of a thermal regulation and control
assembly. The thermo-optic adjustable
photonic crystal structure is composed of a periodic
silicon nanorod array deposited on a
vanadium dioxide (VO2) film, nanorods can generate a C point (
circular polarization singular point) or a V point (polarization vortex singular point) in a reflection or transmission spectrum through
symmetric design, and vector complex numerical value optical response under
thermal cycle modulation is achieved. The thermal regulation and control
assembly can apply periodic temperature change of 20-80 DEG C, and a thermo-optical
hysteresis effect is induced by virtue of thermally induced
phase change of VO2; the optical measurement
system can detect polarization
state evolution in real time, reconstruct a vector hysteretic loop on a
Poincare sphere, and realize accumulation and switching of non-trivialness topological charges. The
system breaks through the limitation that traditional scalar
thermal hysteresis cannot accommodate topological charges, topological
hysteresis is realized in an optical system for the first time, and a feasible platform is provided for applications such as nonvolatile topological
optical storage, neuromorphic calculation and time-space topological physical research.