Tutorial on electromagnetic nonreciprocity and its origins

VS Asadchy, MS Mirmoosa, A Díaz-Rubio… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This tutorial provides an intuitive and concrete description of the phenomena of
electromagnetic nonreciprocity that will be useful for readers with engineering or physics …

Broadband passive isolators based on coupled nonlinear resonances

DL Sounas, J Soric, A Alu - Nature Electronics, 2018 - nature.com
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 …

Unidirectional nonlinear -symmetric optical structures

H Ramezani, T Kottos, R El-Ganainy… - Physical Review A …, 2010 - APS
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 …

Fundamental bounds on the operation of Fano nonlinear isolators

DL Sounas, A Alù - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
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 …

Nonreciprocal and non-Hermitian material response inspired by semiconductor transistors

S Lannebère, DE Fernandes, TA Morgado… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Here, inspired by the operation of conventional semiconductor transistors, we introduce a
novel class of bulk materials with nonreciprocal and non-Hermitian electromagnetic …

as a Radial Pressure Gauge in Colloidal Core/Shell Nanocrystals

S Ithurria, P Guyot-Sionnest, B Mahler, B Dubertret - Physical Review Letters, 2007 - APS
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 …

Linear and passive silicon optical isolator

C Wang, XL Zhong, ZY Li - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
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 …

Optical nonreciprocity of cold atom Bragg mirrors in motion

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 …

Loss-induced violation of the fundamental transmittance-asymmetry bound in nonlinear complex wave systems

CZ Wang, R Kononchuk, U Kuhl, T Kottos - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
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 …

Reversible optical nonreciprocity in periodic structures with liquid crystals

AE Miroshnichenko, E Brasselet, YS Kivshar - Applied Physics Letters, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
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 …