Comment on "Nonreciprocal light propagation in a silicon photonic circuit".
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We show that the structure demonstrated by Feng et al. (Reports, 5 August 2011, p. 729) cannot enable optical isolation because it possesses a symmetric scattering matrix. Moreover, one cannot construct an optical isolator by incorporating this structure into any system as long as the system is linear and time-independent and is described by materials with a scalar dielectric function.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 335 6064 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012