Parity-time-symmetric whispering-gallery microcavities

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 394-398

  Peng, Bo ^a   Özdemir, Sahin Kaya ^a   Lei, Fuchuan ^a,b   Monifi, Faraz ^a   Gianfreda, Mariagiovanna ^c,d   Long, Gui Lu ^b,e   Fan, Shanhui ^f   Nori, Franco ^g,h   Bender, Carl M ^c   Yang, Lan ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI LECCE   (Italy)

^e TSINGHUA NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f Stanford University   (United States)

^g RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAMILTONIANS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

BALANCED LOSS; COUPLED OPTICAL RESONATORS; LINEAR REGIME; QUANTUM SYSTEM; RESONANCE PEAK; RESONANT STRUCTURES; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; WHISPERING-GALLERY MICROCAVITIES;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84899937413     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2927     Document Type: Article

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