Broadband circulators based on directional coupling of one-way waveguides

Resonator-based optical circulators are fundamentally bandwidth-limited by their quality factors. We propose a new type of circulator based on directional coupling between one-way photonic chiral edge states and conventional two-way waveguides. The operational bandwidth of such circulators is tied t...

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Main Authors: Qiu, Wenjun (Contributor), Wang, Zheng (Contributor), Soljacic, Marin (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Optical Society of America, 2013-01-25T19:39:32Z.
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