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One-way photons in silicon

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In the quest for on-chip optical isolation, scientists demonstrate non-reciprocal optical response based on a 'synthetic' magnetic field in an all-silicon platform. This may open directions to optical routing, on-chip lasers and integrated nanophotonic signal processing.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram illustrating the non-reciprocity of the dynamics of light propagating in the forward (a) and the backward (b) direction.

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  1. Alexander B. Khanikaev is in the Department of Physics, Queens College of The City University of New York, Queens, New York 11367, USA and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, New York, New York 10016, USA,

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  2. Andrea Alù is in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA,

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Khanikaev, A., Alù, A. One-way photons in silicon. Nature Photon 8, 680–682 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.208

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