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Nonlinear dynamic reciprocity

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Kerr optical nonlinearities are known to be well suited for achieving optical isolation, but the fact that the degree of non-reciprocity is signal-level dependent brings new opportunities as well as limitations.

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Figure 1: Schematic of optical non-reciprocity and dynamic reciprocity of a nonlinear system.

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  1. Alexander B. Khanikaev is in the Department of Physics, Queens College of The City University of New York, Queens, New York 11367, USA and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10016, USA,

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  2. Andrea Alù is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA and at the AMOLF Institute, PO Box 41883, 1009 DB Amsterdam, The Netherlands,

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Khanikaev, A., Alù, A. Nonlinear dynamic reciprocity. Nature Photon 9, 359–361 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2015.86

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