Nonreciprocal unidirectional and circular transmission in microcavity exciton polaritons

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/adee8c

Abstract We investigate nonreciprocal transmission in microcavity exciton polaritons and obtain analytical conditions for achieving unidirectional and circular transmission. The phase difference between two effective optomechanical couplings can regulate the interference of different channels between two photon modes, and control the direction of nonreciprocity, resulting in unidirectional forward and backward transmissions. Perfect nonreciprocal unidirectional transmission with zero losses is realized, which depends on exciton-photon-phonon couplings. Moreover, clockwise and counterclockwise circular transmissions are implemented by appropriately adjusting the phase of photon mode couplings. Our results open up exciting possibilities for implementing nonreciprocal photonic devices.

Keywords: optical nonreciprocity exciton polaritons nonreciprocal photonic devices

Received: 19 March 2025
Revised: 16 May 2025
Accepted manuscript online: 11 July 2025

PACS:	42.50.-p	(Quantum optics)
	42.25.Bs	(Wave propagation, transmission and absorption)
	71.36.+c	(Polaritons (including photon-phonon and photon-magnon interactions))
	42.79.Hp	(Optical processors, correlators, and modulators)
	03.67.Lx	(Quantum computation architectures and implementations)

Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12104374, 12164042, and 12264045) and the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province, China (Grant No. 20JR5RA526).

Corresponding Authors: Zi-Fa Yu
E-mail: Yuzifa@nwnu.edu.cn

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Hong-Ping Xu(徐红萍), Run-Run Yang(杨润润), Ji-Ming Gao(高吉明), and Zi-Fa Yu(鱼自发) Nonreciprocal unidirectional and circular transmission in microcavity exciton polaritons 2025 Chin. Phys. B 34 114202

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