Title :
Parity-time optical metamaterial devices
Author :
Zi Jing Wong;Liang Feng;Ren-Min Ma;Yuan Wang;Xiang Zhang
Author_Institution :
NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Abstract :
The interplay between gain and loss in optical metamaterials can lead to novel device functionalities. Here we demonstrate a single-mode laser with unique cavity mode manipulation capability based on thresholdless parity-time symmetry breaking.
Keywords :
"Lasers","Optical resonators","Gain","Modulation","Optical losses","Optical imaging","Absorption"
Conference_Titel :
Microoptics Conference (MOC), 2015 20th
Print_ISBN :
978-4-8634-8487-0
DOI :
10.1109/MOC.2015.7416388