What is - and what is not - an optical isolator

被引：815

作者：

Jalas, Dirk ^{[1
]}

Petrov, Alexander ^{[1
]}

Eich, Manfred ^{[1
]}

Freude, Wolfgang ^{[2
,3
]}

Fan, Shanhui ^{[4
]}

Yu, Zongfu ^{[4
]}

Baets, Roel ^{[5
,6
]}

Popovic, Milos ^{[7
]}

Melloni, Andrea ^{[8
]}

Joannopoulos, John D. ^{[9
]}

Vanwolleghem, Mathias ^{[10
]}

Doerr, Christopher R. ^{[11
]}

Renner, Hagen ^{[12
]}

机构：

[1] Hamburg Univ Technol, Inst Opt & Elect Mat, D-21073 Hamburg, Germany

[2] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Inst Photon & Quantum, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

[3] Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Inst Microstruct Technol, D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

[4] Stanford Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Ginzton Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

[5] Ghent Univ IMEC, Photon Res Grp, INTEC Dept, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

[6] Ghent Univ IMEC, Ctr Nano & Biophoton, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

[7] Univ Colorado, Dept Elect Comp & Energy Engn, Boulder, CO 80302 USA

[8] Politecn Milan, Dipartimento Elettron Informaz Bioingn, I-20133 Milan, Italy

[9] MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[10] Univ Lille 1, CNRS, Inst Elect Microelect & Nanotechnol, F-59650 Villeneuve Dascq, France

[11] Acacia Commun Inc, Maynard, MA 01754 USA

[12] Hamburg Univ Technol, Inst Opt Commun Technol, D-21073 Hamburg, Germany

来源：

NATURE PHOTONICS | 2013年 / 7卷 / 08期

关键词：

NONRECIPROCAL LIGHT-PROPAGATION; SILICON PHOTONIC CIRCUIT; WAVE-GUIDES; DIODE; TRANSMISSION;

D O I：

10.1038/nphoton.2013.185

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

The quest for on-chip optical isolators has recently spawned many new isolator structures. However, there has been some confusion about the requirement of nonreciprocity. Here, we review the essential characteristics of an isolator.

引用

页码：579 / 582

页数：4

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