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Nonreciprocal coupling between photonic modes enables a range of advanced functionalities, though the available approaches for its practical implementation remain limited. Here, we introduce a novel strategy for achieving nonreciprocal…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-30 Yekai Shen , Shuhang Chen

In contrast to conventional RIS, the scattering matrix of a non-reciprocal RIS (NR-RIS) is non-symmetric, leading to differences in the uplink and the downlink components of NR-RIS cascaded channels. In this paper, a physically-consistent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Jiaqi Xu , Haoyu Wang , Rang Liu , Josef A. Nossek , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper considers the non-linear inverse problem of reconstructing an electric conductivity distribution from the interior power density in a bounded domain. Applications include the novel tomographic method known as acousto-electric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-29 B. J. Adesokan , Kim Knudsen , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan , Souvik Roy

Asymmetric energy exchange interactions, also known as Hatano-Nelson type couplings, enable the study of non-Hermitian physics and associated phenomena like the non-Hermitian skin effect and exceptional points (EP). Since these interactions…

For sufficiently wide ranges of applied control signals (control voltages), MEMS and piezoelectric Deformable Mirrors (DMs), exhibit nonlinear behavior. The nonlinear behavior manifests itself in nonlinear actuator couplings, nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-10 Aleksandar Haber

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 optical devices are essential for laser protection, modern optical communication and quantum information processing by enforcing one-way light propagation. The conventional Faraday magneto-optical nonreciprocal devices rely on…

Recent advances in integrated photonics have enabled on-chip signal modulation and processing through localized photon-phonon interactions. For acousto-optic devices, compact footprint and high efficiency are essential for dense…

Nonreciprocal devices that permit wave transmission in only one direction are indispensible in many fields of science including, e.g., electronics, optics, acoustics, and thermodynamics. Manipulating phonons using such nonreciprocal devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Jing Zhang , Bo Peng , Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Yu-xi Liu , Hui Jing , Xin-you Lu , Yu-long Liu , Lan Yang , Franco Nori

Nonreciprocal devices are a key element for signal routing and noise isolation. Rapid development of quantum technologies has boosted the demand for a new generation of miniaturized and low-loss nonreciprocal components. Here we use a pair…

We discuss a general method for constructing nonreciprocal, cavity-based photonic devices, based on matching a given coherent interaction with its corresponding dissipative counterpart; our method generalizes the basic structure used in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Metelmann , A. A. Clerk

We show that nonreciprocal optical Bloch-like oscillations can emerge in transversely magnetized waveguide arrays in the presence of an effective index step between the waveguides. Normal modes of the system are shown to acquire different…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 Miguel Levy , Pradeep Kumar

We study the dynamics of a waveguide made of coupled resonators with a sinusoidal modulation of the resonance frequencies. We present a modulation scheme that achieves complete dynamic localization and is experimentally suitable for optical…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-21 Momchil Minkov , Shanhui Fan

Inspired by the photosynthetic energy transfer process, we theoretically propose a method to realize non-reciprocal optical transmission in an array of coupled resonators. The optical non-reciprocity of the coupled resonators arises from…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-28 Yi-Xuan Yao , Qing Ai

State transfer between different quantum systems is key for successful quantum technologies. Over long distances, photons are irreplaceable, but on short ranges in miniaturized complex devices or hybrid systems, coupling via orders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Mateusz Kuniej , Paweł Machnikowski , Michał Gawełczyk

Adaptive optics (AO) is a powerful image correction technique with proven benefits for many life-science microscopy methods. However, the complexity of adding a reflective wavefront modulator and a wavefront sensor into already complicated…

Time-varying photonic systems open new possibilities for controlling light, enabling photonic time crystals, time reflection and refraction, frequency conversion, synthetic gauge fields, optical nonreciprocity, among others. These effects…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-27 Zeki Hayran , John B. Pendry , Prasad P. Iyer , Francesco Monticone

We present a customizable soft haptic system that integrates modular hardware with an information-theoretic algorithm to personalize feedback for different users and tasks. Our platform features modular, multi-degree-of-freedom pneumatic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Antonio Alvarez Valdivia , Benjamin A. Christie , Dylan P. Losey , Laura H. Blumenschein

This paper reviews the application of coherent acoustic phonons in the form of piezoelectrically-generated surface acoustic waves to control the response of integrated photonic acousto-optic waveguide structures. We first address the…

Non-reciprocal components, such as isolators and circulators, are critical to wireless communication and radar applications. Traditionally, non-reciprocal components have been implemented using ferrite materials, which exhibit…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-20 Aravind Nagulu , Tolga Dinc , Zhicheng Xiao , Mykhailo Tymchenko , Dimitrios Sounas , Andrea Alù , Harish Krishnaswamy