Isolators are devices that transmit waves only in one direction, and are widely used to protect sensitive equipment from reflections and interference. These devices inherently …
We show that nonlinear optical structures involving a balanced gain-loss profile can act as unidirectional optical valves. This is made possible by exploiting the interplay between the …
Nonlinear isolators have attracted significant attention for their ability to break reciprocity and provide isolation without the need of an external bias. A popular approach for the design of …
Here, inspired by the operation of conventional semiconductor transistors, we introduce a novel class of bulk materials with nonreciprocal and non-Hermitian electromagnetic …
The fluorescence of Mn 2+ doped in the shell of CdS/ZnS core/shell nanocrystals at radially controlled position is used as a local probe of pressure in the nanocrystal shell. The redshift …
On-chip optical isolation plays a key role in optical communications and computing based on silicon integrated photonic structures and has attracted great attentions for long years …
SAR Horsley, JH Wu, M Artoni, GC La Rocca - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
Reciprocity is fundamental to light transport and is a concept that holds also in rather complex systems. Yet, reciprocity can be switched off even in linear, isotropic, and passive …
Nonlinearity-induced asymmetric transport (AT) can be utilized for on-chip implementation of nonreciprocal devices that do not require odd-vector biasing. This scheme, however, is …
We demonstrate how to achieve reversible nonreciprocal optical response in a periodic photonic structure with a pair of defects, one of them being a nonlinear liquid crystal defect …