Flatband systems typically host "compact localized states" (CLS) due to destructive interference and macroscopic degeneracy of Bloch wave functions associated with a dispersionless energy band. Using a photonic Lieb lattice (LL), such conventional localized flatband states are found to be inherently incomplete, with the missing modes manifested as extended line states that form noncontractible loops winding around the entire lattice. Experimentally, we develop a continuous-wave laser writing technique to establish a finite-sized photonic LL with specially tailored boundaries and, thereby, directly observe the unusually extended flatband line states. Such unconventional line states cannot be expressed as a linear combination of the previously observed boundary-independent bulk CLS but rather arise from the nontrivial real-space topology. The robustness of the line states to imperfect excitation conditions is discussed, and their potential applications are illustrated.
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