Practical on-chip optical isolators providing non-reciprocal propagation are still a challenge. Now, two independent groups show that a phonon-mediated break of the chiral symmetry in waveguide resonators may offer a solution.
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Mailis, S. On-chip non-magnetic optical isolator. Nat. Photon. 15, 794–795 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00895-8
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