Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Nonreciprocity and magnetic-free isolation based on optomechanical interactions

  • Freek Ruesink,
  • Mohammad-Ali Miri,
  • Andrea Alù,
  • Ewold Verhagen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13662
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Nonreciprocal components are widely used in optical circuits but the magneto-optic effects they are based on pose difficulties for on-chip integration. Here, Ruesink et al. propose an optomechanical scheme to break reciprocity without the need for magnetic fields.