For integrated photonics to take off, light signals zooming around optical chips must be successfully isolated from one another. Scientists at Stanford University have now designed a miniature one-way valve for light that uses photonic transitions and is potentially compatible with silicon-chip CMOS fabrication processes.
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Yoo, S. A chip-scale one-way valve for light. Nature Photon 3, 77–79 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.279
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