Optical nonreciprocity in optomechanical structures.
We demonstrate that optomechanical devices can exhibit nonreciprocal behavior when the dominant light-matter interaction takes place via a linear momentum exchange between light and the mechanical structure. As an example, we propose a microscale optomechanical device that can exhibit a nonreciprocal behavior in a microphotonic platform operating at room temperature. We show that, depending on the direction of the incident light, the device switches between a high and low transparency state with more than a 20 dB extinction ratio.
Manipatruni
Sasikanth
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School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
Robinson
Jacob T
JT
Lipson
Michal
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