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Optical quadrature nonreciprocity

Jamison Sloan, Eran Lustig, Louise Schul, Trung Kien Le, Melissa A. Guidry, Daniil M. Lukin, Shanhui Fan, Jelena Vuckovic A

Published Jan 1, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally realize an optical dimer with quadrature nonreciprocity. Our dimer relies solely on Kerr nonlinearity in a microring resonator, and enables tunable phase sensitive amplification of low power optical signals.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2026.fm2d.3

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