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- Title
What is - and what is not - an optical isolator.
- Authors
Jalas, Dirk; Petrov, Alexander; Eich, Manfred; Freude, Wolfgang; Fan, Shanhui; Yu, Zongfu; Baets, Roel; Popović, Miloš; Melloni, Andrea; Joannopoulos, John D.; Vanwolleghem, Mathias; Doerr, Christopher R.; Renner, Hagen
- Abstract
In this article the authors discusses the characteristics of an optical isolator. It states that to understand an isolator one needs to know the light which enters and leaves it. It mentions that one can use waveguides by the amplitudes of Maxwell's equations's eigensolutions to calculate the light in an isolator. It focuses on magneto-optical material where the Lorentz reciprocity theorem doesn't hold.
- Subjects
OPTICAL isolators; LIGHT; WAVEGUIDES; MAXWELL equations; MAGNETOOPTICAL devices; RECIPROCITY theorems
- Publication
Nature Photonics, 2013, Vol 7, Issue 8, p579
- ISSN
1749-4885
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nphoton.2013.185