| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 238, 2020
EOS Annual Meeting (EOSAM 2020)
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| Article Number | 11006 | |
| Number of page(s) | 2 | |
| Section | Topical Meeting (TOM) 12- Nonlinear Optics: Materials and Applications | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023811006 | |
| Published online | 20 August 2020 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202023811006
Nonreciprocal propagation in a non-Hermitian silicon photonic coupler employing graphene saturable absorption
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
* e-mail: dcthazid@ece.auth.gr
Published online: 20 August 2020
We present the concept, analysis and design of a nonreciprocal system of coupled nonlinear waveguides, operating at the near infrared. We exploit the spatial asymmetry induced by the exceptional points of a non-Hermitian coupler which, combined with saturable absorption in the nonlinear regime, can break Lorentz reciprocity. In this work, we introduce asymmetric losses in a pair of coupled silicon waveguides by overlaying only one of them with unbiased graphene, subject to saturable absorption. The device can be used as a broadband half-duplex isolator: a two-port component offering unidirectional transmission of high-power signals.
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