2019-01-29
Nonreciprocity and zero reflection in nonlinear cavities with tailored loss
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Phys. Rev. A , Volume 99 p. 013851: 1- 11
We demonstrate how to tailor the losses of nonlinear cavities in order to suppress their reflection and enhance their nonreciprocal transmission. We derive analytical expressions predicting the existence of zero-reflection channels in single and coupled nonlinear cavities, depending on the driving frequency and loss rates. While suppressing the reflection from a single cavity imposes a stringent condition on the input-output leakage rates, we demonstrate that this condition can be significantly relaxed in systems of coupled cavities. In particular, zero-reflection and nonreciprocity can be achieved across a range of driving frequencies in coupled cavities by tuning the output leakage rate alone. Numerical calculations based on the driven-dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii equation, usually employed to describe microcavity polaritons, reveal the spatial phenomenology associated with zero-reflection states and provide design guidelines for the construction of nonlinear optical isolators.
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APS | |
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) , European Research Council (ERC) | |
doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013851 | |
Phys. Rev. A | |
Organisation | Interacting Photons |
Rodriguez, S., Goblot, V., Zambon, N., Amo, A., & Bloch, J. (2019). Nonreciprocity and zero reflection in nonlinear cavities with tailored loss. Phys. Rev. A, 99, 013851: 1–11. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.99.013851 |