Title :
Physics and applications of one-way magneto-optical photonic crystals
Author :
Zheng Wang;Yidong Chong;John Joannopoulos;Marin Soljačić
Author_Institution :
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge 02139, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate experimentally one-way waveguiding in a gyromagnetic photonic crystal. The complete suppression of back-scattering, even in the presence of very large scatterers, allows intriguing applications such as slow light.
Keywords :
"Physics","Photonic crystals","Particle scattering","Electromagnetic scattering","Optical waveguides","Photonic band gap","Antenna feeds","Frequency","Optical scattering","Backscatter"
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
