Parity-time (PT)-symmetric optical microcavities

Bo Peng; Aahin Kaya Özdemir; Shanhui Fan; Franco Nori; Mariagiovanna Gianfreda; Carl M. Bender; Lan Yang

doi:10.1364/cleo_at.2014.jth5b.1

Parity-time (PT)-symmetric optical microcavities

Bo Peng, Aahin Kaya Özdemir, Shanhui Fan, Franco Nori, Mariagiovanna Gianfreda, Carl M. Bender, Lan Yang

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We report the first demonstration of PT-symmetry and its breaking in a system of two directly-coupled on-chip whispering-gallery-mode microresonators[1]. We observed strong nonreciprocity due to strong-field localization and enhanced nonlinearity in the broken PTsymmetry phase.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/cleo_at.2014.jth5b.1
State	Published - 2014
Event	2014 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2014 - San Jose, United States Duration: Jun 8 2014 → Jun 13 2014

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Conference	2014 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose
Period	06/8/14 → 06/13/14

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