Title :
Experimental demonstration of non-hermitian on-chip nonlinear optical isolators
Author :
Yat-Ming Ho ; Perez-Leija, A. ; El-Ganainy, R. ; LiKamWa, P. ; Salamo, Gregory ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Opt., Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
We report the experimental realization of a non-Hermitian optical isolator based on semiconductor nonlinear waveguide arrays. Such non-Hermitian isolators can in principle be integrated on the same semiconductor platform along with the laser source.
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; optical isolators; optical waveguides; semiconductor materials; laser source; nonHermitian on-chip Nonlinear Optical Isolators; semiconductor nonlinear waveguide arrays; semiconductor platform; Isolators; Nonlinear optical devices; Optical arrays; Optical pulses; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
