Nonreciprocal magneto-optic beam splitting
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Department
Department of Physics; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Abstract
We report an unexplored magneto-optic effect, triple circular reflection/refraction, for the manufacture of nonreciprocal beam splitters. Such beam splitters split up linearly polarized light into opposite-helicity plus linearly polarized beams all traveling in different directions. We present a mathematical description of the effect and its experimental verification in the visible and near-infrared in bismuth-substituted iron garnets. The phenomenon also provides the existence of quadruple and higher order reflection/refraction modes. The effect in question could produce nonreciprocal photonic devices that operate in classical or quantum regimes such as beam steerers, isolators, and routers.
Publication Title
Optical Materials Express
Recommended Citation
Nelson, S.,
Guney, D. O.,
&
Levy, M.
(2022).
Nonreciprocal magneto-optic beam splitting.
Optical Materials Express,
12(3), 885-894.
http://doi.org/10.1364/OME.451528
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