Optical isolation viaPT -symmetric nonlinear Fano resonances

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 9574-9584

  Nazari, F ^a,b   Bender, N ^a   Ramezani, H ^a   Moravvej Farshi, M K ^b   Christodoulides, D N ^c   Kottos, T ^a,d  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESONANCE;

ASYMMETRIC TRANSPORT; FANO RESONANCES; FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTIC; INCIDENT LIGHT; MICRO RESONATORS; NONLINEAR FANO RESONANCE; OPTICAL ISOLATION; RESONANCE POSITION;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 84899017081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.009574     Document Type: Article

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