title: Wideband switchable unidirectional transmission in a photonic crystal with a periodically nonuniform pupil.
abstract: Wideband switchable diode-like transmission can be exhibited by an asymmetric dielectric photonic crystal, when the host medium is changed from air to a coherent atomic gas (CAG), a strongly dispersive medium. Significant modification of diffraction-enabled one-way transmission due to the CAG is possible in both frequency and incidence-angle domains in the short-wave infrared regime. In particular, new one-way and high-contrast passbands, which are as much as 1.0 THz in bandwidth, can appear at fixed incidence angle within a stop band of the CAG-free structure and tuned by varying the oscillator strength of the CAG. These passbands correspond to relatively small, either positive or negative, values of the dielectric susceptibility of the CAG.
authors.affiliation: Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany. serebryannikov@tu‑harburg.de
authors.forename: Andriy E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Serebryannikov
authors.forename: Akhlesh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lakhtakia