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- Title
Unidirectional reflectionless light propagation at exceptional points.
- Authors
Huang, Yin; Shen, Yuecheng; Min, Changjun; Fan, Shanhui; Veronis, Georgios
- Abstract
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of unidirectional reflectionless light propagation in photonic devices at exceptional points (EPs). EPs, which are branch point singularities of the spectrum, associated with the coalescence of both eigenvalues and corresponding eigenstates, lead to interesting phenomena, such as level repulsion and crossing, bifurcation, chaos, and phase transitions in open quantum systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. Recently, it was shown that judiciously designed photonic synthetic matters could mimic the complex non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in quantum mechanics and realize unidirectional reflection at optical EPs. Unidirectional reflectionlessness is of great interest for optical invisibility. Achieving unidirectional reflectionless light propagation could also be potentially important for developing optical devices, such as optical network analyzers. Here, we discuss unidirectional reflectionlessness at EPs in both parity-time ( PT)-symmetric and non- PT-symmetric optical systems. We also provide an outlook on possible future directions in this field.
- Subjects
HERMITIAN structures; COMPLEX manifolds; PHASE transitions
- Publication
Nanophotonics (21928606), 2017, Vol 6, Issue 5, p977
- ISSN
2192-8606
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/nanoph-2017-0019