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Nonreciprocal photonic crystal add-drop filter

Journal Article · · Applied Physics Letters
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4902868· OSTI ID:22392051
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. THz Technical Research Center of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518067 (China)
  2. College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen 518055 (China)
  3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309 (United States)
We present a versatile add-drop integrated photonic filter (ADF) consisting of nonreciprocal waveguides in which the propagation of light is restricted in one predetermined direction. With the bus and add/drop waveguides symmetrically coupled through a cavity, the four-port device allows each individual port to add and/or drop a signal of the same frequency. The scheme is general and we demonstrate the nonreciprocal ADF with magneto-optical photonic crystals. The filter is immune to waveguide defects, allowing straightforward implementation of multi-channel ADFs by cascading the four-port designs. The results should find applications in wavelength-division multiplexing and related integrated photonic techniques.
OSTI ID:
22392051
Journal Information:
Applied Physics Letters, Journal Name: Applied Physics Letters Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 105; ISSN APPLAB; ISSN 0003-6951
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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