Photonics of time-varying media

E Galiffi, R Tirole, S Yin, H Li, S Vezzoli… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, due
to the synergy between the discovery of highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near …

Nonreciprocity in acoustic and elastic materials

H Nassar, B Yousefzadeh, R Fleury… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The law of reciprocity in acoustics and elastodynamics codifies a relation of symmetry
between action and reaction in fluids and solids. In its simplest form, it states that the …

Microwave photonics with superconducting quantum circuits

X Gu, AF Kockum, A Miranowicz, Y Liu, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In the past 20 years, impressive progress has been made both experimentally and
theoretically in superconducting quantum circuits, which provide a platform for manipulating …

Non-reciprocal photonics based on time modulation

DL Sounas, A Alù - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Reciprocity is a fundamental principle in optics, requiring that the response of a transmission
channel is symmetric when source and observation points are interchanged. It is of major …

Nonreciprocal photon blockade

R Huang, A Miranowicz, JQ Liao, F Nori, H Jing - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We propose how to create and manipulate one-way nonclassical light via photon blockade
in rotating nonlinear devices. We refer to this effect as nonreciprocal photon blockade (PB) …

Quantum squeezing induced optical nonreciprocity

L Tang, J Tang, M Chen, F Nori, M Xiao, K Xia - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
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 χ (2)-nonlinear …

Magnetic-free non-reciprocity and isolation based on parametrically modulated coupled-resonator loops

NA Estep, DL Sounas, J Soric, A Alu - Nature Physics, 2014 - nature.com
Non-reciprocal components, which are essential to many modern communication systems,
are almost exclusively based on magneto-optical materials, severely limiting their …

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 …

Sound isolation and giant linear nonreciprocity in a compact acoustic circulator

R Fleury, DL Sounas, CF Sieck, MR Haberman, A Alù - Science, 2014 - science.org
Acoustic isolation and nonreciprocal sound transmission are highly desirable in many
practical scenarios. They may be realized with nonlinear or magneto-acoustic effects, but …

Space-time gradient metasurfaces

Y Hadad, DL Sounas, A Alu - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
Metasurfaces characterized by a transverse gradient of local impedance have recently
opened exciting directions for light manipulation at the subwavelength scale. Here we add a …