Single-mode waveguide optical isolator based on direction-dependent cutoff frequency
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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Lingling Tang1, Samuel M Drezdzon, Tomoyuki Yoshie
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0291, USA. lingling.tang@duke.edu
Abstract:
A single-mode-waveguide optical isolator based on propagation direction dependent cut-off frequency is proposed. The isolation bandwidth is the difference between the cut-off frequencies of the lowest forward and backward propagating modes. Perturbation theory is used for analyzing the correlation between the material distribution and the bandwidth. The mode profile determines an appropriate distribution of non-reciprocal materials.
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