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Perfect optical nonreciprocity in a double-cavity optomechanical system

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Nonreciprocal devices are indispensable for building quantum networks and ubiquitous in modern communication technology. Here, we propose to take advantage of the interference between optomechanical interaction and linearly-coupled interaction to realize optical nonreciprocal transmission in a double-cavity optomechanical system. Particularly, we have derived essential conditions for perfect optical nonreciprocity and analysed properties of the optical nonreciprocal transmission. These results can be used to control optical transmission in quantum information processing.

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Acknowledgments

L. Yang was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11804066), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2018M630337), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 3072019CFM0405).

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  1. College of Electronic Science, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, 163318, China

    Xiao-Bo Yan

  2. Department of Physics, Yunnan Minzu University, Kunming, 650500, China

    He-Lin Lu

  3. College of Science, Shenyang Aerospace University, Shenyang, 110136, China

    Feng Gao

  4. College of Automation, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, China

    Liu Yang

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Yan, XB., Lu, HL., Gao, F. et al. Perfect optical nonreciprocity in a double-cavity optomechanical system. Front. Phys. 14, 52601 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-019-0922-3

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