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Nonreciprocal transport of electromagnetic waves within magnetized plasma is a powerful building block towards understanding and exploiting the properties of more general topological systems. Much recent attention has been paid to the…

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Nonlinear photonics uses coherent interactions between optical waves to engineer functionality that is not possible with purely linear optics. Traditionally, the function of a nonlinear-optical device is determined during design and fixed…

Waveguides subject to spatiotemporal modulations are known to exhibit nonreciprocal vibration transmission, whereby interchanging the locations of the source and receiver change the end-to-end transmission characteristics. The scenario of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Jiuda Wu , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

A circulator is one of the crucial devices in quantum networks and simulations. We propose a four-port circulator that regulate the flow of single photons at muti-frequency points by studying the coherent transmission of a single photon in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Jing Li , Tian-Xiang Lu , Meiyu Peng , Le-Man Kuang , Hui Jing , Lan Zhou

Breaking the reciprocity of wave propagation is a problem of fundamental interest, and a mucht-sought functionality in practical applications, both in photonics and phononics. Although it has been achieved using resonant linear scattering…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tiemo Pedergnana , Abel Faure-Beaulieu , Romain Fleury , Nicolas Noiray

Nonreciprocal devices - in which light is transmitted with different efficiencies along opposite directions - are key technologies for modern photonic applications, yet their compact and miniaturized implementation remains an open…

Optical nonreciprocity is the phenomenon where light behaves differently when traveling in the forward direction compared to the backward direction. This nonreciprocal behavior is typically achieved in systems that exhibit electromagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Dheeraj Pratap

Having simultaneously a high quality factor (i.e. a narrow resonant band) and a shorter interaction time between the resonating system and the external sources (i.e. a wide resonant band) is a desirable characteristic for mechanical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Lijie Li

Nonreciprocal devices are indispensable for building quantum networks and ubiquitous in modern communication technology. Here, we use optomechanical interaction and linearly-coupled interaction to realize optical nonreciprocal transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Xiao-Bo Yan , He-Lin Lu , Feng Gao , Liu Yang

The nonlinear, parametric coupling between two harmonic oscillators has been used in the field of optomechanics for breakthrough experiments regarding the control and detection of mechanical resonators. Although this type of interaction is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-08 D. Bothner , I. C. Rodrigues , G. A. Steele

We study an optomechanical transistor, where an input field can be transferred and amplified unidirectionally in a cyclic three-mode optomechanical system. In this system, the mechanical resonator is coupled simultaneously to two cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 X. Z. Zhang , Lin Tian , Yong Li

The coherent transduction of information between microwave and optical domains is a fundamental building block for future quantum networks. A promising way to bridge these widely different frequencies is using high-frequency nanomechanical…

Optoelectronic components with adjustable parameters, from variable-focal-length lenses to spectral filters that can change functionality upon stimulation, have enormous technological importance. Tuning of such components is conventionally…

In recent years, wave-based analog computing has been at the center of attention for providing ultra-fast and power-efficient signal processing enabled by wave propagation through artificially engineered structures. Building on these…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Vahid Nikkhah , Mario Junior Mencagli , Nader Engheta

Nonreciprocal elements, such as isolators and circulators, play an important role in classical and quantum information processing. Recently, strong nonreciprocal effects have been experimentally demonstrated in cavity optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Zhen Chen , Qichun Liu , Jingwei Zhou , Peng Zhao , Haifeng Yu , Tiefu Li , Yulong Liu

We propose an all-optical approach to achieve optical nonreciprocity on a chip by quantum squeezing one of two coupled resonator modes. By parametric pumping a nonlinear resonator unidirectionally with a classical coherent field, we squeeze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-25 Lei Tang , Jiangshan Tang , Mingyuan Chen , Franco Nori , Min Xiao , Keyu Xia

We study the coherent transport of one or two photons in a 1D waveguide chirally coupled to a nonlinear resonator. Analytic solutions of the one-photon and two-photon scattering is derived. Although the resonator acts as a non-reciprocal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Jin-Lei Tan , Xun-Wei Xu , Jing Lu , Lan Zhou

Recently, nonreciprocal phase shifters have attracted a surge of interest thanks to the advent of nonreciprocal electromagnetic systems, such as nonreciprocal metasurfaces, nonreciprocal-beam antennas, and invisibility cloaks. To overcome…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

Breaking the reciprocity of light propagation in photonic integrated circuits (PIC) - especially in the CMOS-compatible silicon-on-insulator platform - is a topic of intense research. However, a practical solution for monolithic integrating…

We experimentally demonstrate the nonreciprocal microwave amplification using a cavity magnonic system, consisting of a passive cavity (i.e., the split-ring resonator), an active feedback circuit integrated with an amplifier, and a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Zi-Yuan Wang , Jie Qian , Yi-Pu Wang , Jie Li , J. Q. You