• DocumentCode
    3636265
  • Title

    Physics and applications of one-way magneto-optical photonic crystals

  • Author

    Zheng Wang;Yidong Chong;John Joannopoulos;Marin Soljačić

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge 02139, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate experimentally one-way waveguiding in a gyromagnetic photonic crystal. The complete suppression of back-scattering, even in the presence of very large scatterers, allows intriguing applications such as slow light.
  • Keywords
    "Physics","Photonic crystals","Particle scattering","Electromagnetic scattering","Optical waveguides","Photonic band gap","Antenna feeds","Frequency","Optical scattering","Backscatter"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5499724