Unidirectional lasing emerging from frozen light in nonreciprocal cavities

Hamidreza Ramezani; Tsampikos Kottos; I. Vitebskiy

doi:10.1117/12.2063112

12 September 2014 Unidirectional lasing emerging from frozen light in nonreciprocal cavities

Hamidreza Ramezani, Tsampikos Kottos, I. Vitebskiy

Proceedings Volume 9162, Active Photonic Materials VI; 91621R (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2063112
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We introduce a class of unidirectional lasing modes associated with the frozen mode regime of non-reciprocal slow-wave structures.¹ Such asymmetric modes can only exist in cavities with broken time-reversal and space inversion symmetries. The lasing frequency coincides with a spectral stationary inflection point of the underlying passive structure and it is virtually independent of the size of the cavity. These unidirectional lasers can be indispensable components of photonic integrated circuitry.

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Hamidreza Ramezani, Tsampikos Kottos, and I. Vitebskiy "Unidirectional lasing emerging from frozen light in nonreciprocal cavities", Proc. SPIE 9162, Active Photonic Materials VI, 91621R (12 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2063112

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