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Optical isolation by hot atoms

Nature Photonics volume 12, pages 720–721 (2018)Cite this article

A collection of hot rubidium atoms is shown to exhibit non-reciprocal optical transmission due to the interplay between thermal motion and electromagnetically induced transparency.

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Fig. 1: Optical non-reciprocity due to the interplay between EIT and thermal motion.

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