Perfect optical nonreciprocity in a double-cavity optomechanical system

doi:10.1007/s11467-019-0922-3

Front. Phys.

2019, Vol. 14

Issue (5) : 52601 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-019-0922-3

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Perfect optical nonreciprocity in a double-cavity optomechanical system

Xiao-Bo Yan¹(

), He-Lin Lu², Feng Gao³, Feng Gao³, Liu Yang⁴(

)

¹. College of Electronic Science, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China
². Department of Physics, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming 650500, China
³. College of Science, Shenyang Aerospace University, Shenyang 110136, China
⁴. College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China

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Abstract

Nonreciprocal devices are indispensable for building quantum networks and ubiquitous in modern communication technology. Here, we propose to take advantage of the interference between optomechanical interaction and linearly-coupled interaction to realize optical nonreciprocal transmission in a double-cavity optomechanical system. Particularly, we have derived essential conditions for perfect optical nonreciprocity and analysed properties of the optical nonreciprocal transmission. These results can be used to control optical transmission in quantum information processing.

Keywords optomechanics optical nonreciprocity nonreciprocal transmission

Corresponding Author(s): Xiao-Bo Yan,Liu Yang

Issue Date: 16 September 2019

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Xiao-Bo Yan,He-Lin Lu,Feng Gao, et al. Perfect optical nonreciprocity in a double-cavity optomechanical system[J]. Front. Phys. , 2019, 14(5): 52601.

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