Generalized non-reciprocity in an optomechanical circuit via synthetic magnetism and reservoir engineering

K Fang, J Luo, A Metelmann, MH Matheny… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Synthetic magnetism has been used to control charge neutral excitations for applications
ranging from classical beam steering to quantum simulation. In optomechanics, radiation …

Microresonator isolators and circulators based on the intrinsic nonreciprocity of the Kerr effect

L Del Bino, JM Silver, MTM Woodley, SL Stebbings… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Nonreciprocal light propagation is important in many applications, ranging from optical
telecommunications to integrated photonics. A simple way to achieve optical nonreciprocity …

Programming nonreciprocity and reversibility in multistable mechanical metamaterials

G Librandi, E Tubaldi, K Bertoldi - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Nonreciprocity can be passively achieved by harnessing material nonlinearities. In
particular, networks of nonlinear bistable elements with asymmetric energy landscapes have …

Nonreciprocity via nonlinearity and synthetic magnetism

XW Xu, Y Li, B Li, H Jing, AX Chen - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
We propose how to realize nonreciprocity for a weak input optical field via nonlinearity and
synthetic magnetism. We show that the photons transmitted from a linear cavity to a …

Optomechanically induced nonreciprocity in a three-mode optomechanical system

XW Xu, LN Song, Q Zheng, ZH Wang, Y Li - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We propose to create optical nonreciprocity in a three-mode optomechanical system
comprising one mechanical and two optical modes, where the mechanical mode is coupled …

Cavity optomechanics: Manipulating photons and phonons towards the single-photon strong coupling

Y Liu, C Wang, J Zhang, Y Liu - Chinese Physics B, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Cavity optomechanical systems provide powerful platforms to manipulate photons and
phonons, open potential applications for modern optical communications and precise …

Classical dynamical gauge fields in optomechanics

S Walter, F Marquardt - New Journal of Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Artificial gauge fields for neutral particles such as photons, recently attracted a lot of attention
in various fields ranging from photonic crystals to ultracold atoms in optical lattices to …

Broadband optical nonreciprocity via nonreciprocal band structure

N Hu, ZX Tang, XW Xu - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
As a promising approach for optical nonreciprocity without magnetic materials,
optomechanically induced nonreciprocity has great potential for all-optical controllable …

Single-photon nonreciprocal transport in one-dimensional coupled-resonator waveguides

XW Xu, AX Chen, Y Li, Y Liu - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We study the transport of a single photon in two coupled one-dimensional semi-infinite
coupled-resonator waveguides (CRWs), in which both end sides are coupled to a …

Perfect optical nonreciprocity in a double-cavity optomechanical system

XB Yan, HL Lu, F Gao, L Yang - Frontiers of Physics, 2019 - Springer
Nonreciprocal devices are indispensable for building quantum networks and ubiquitous in
modern communication technology. Here, we propose to take advantage of the interference …