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标题：On-chip broadband nonreciprocal light storage
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作者：Moritz Merklein ; Birgit Stiller ; Khu Vu 等
期刊名称：Nanophotonics
印刷版ISSN：2192-8606
电子版ISSN：2192-8614
出版年度：2020
卷号：-1
期号：ahead-of-print
DOI：10.1515/nanoph-2020-0371
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH
摘要：Breaking the symmetry between forward- and backward-propagating optical modes is of fundamental scientific interest and enables crucial functionalities, such as isolators, circulators, and duplex communication systems. Although there has been progress in achieving optical isolation on-chip, integrated broadband nonreciprocal signal processing functionalities that enable transmitting and receiving via the same low-loss planar waveguide, without altering the frequency or mode of the signal, remain elusive. Here, we demonstrate a nonreciprocal delay scheme based on the unidirectional transfer of optical data pulses to acoustic waves in a chip-based integration platform. We experimentally demonstrate that this scheme is not impacted by simultaneously counterpropagating optical signals. Furthermore, we achieve a bandwidth more than an order of magnitude broader than the intrinsic optoacoustic linewidth, linear operation for a wide range of signal powers, and importantly, show that this scheme is wavelength preserving and avoids complicated multimode structures.
关键词：Brillouin scattering ; integrated photonics ; nonreciprocity ; optical delay