• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 9, Issue 7, 1218 (2021)
Lei Tang1, Jiangshan Tang1, Haodong Wu1, Jing Zhang2、3, Min Xiao1、4, and Keyu Xia1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
  • 2Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • 3Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Beijing 100084, China
  • 4Department of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701, USA
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    Lei Tang, Jiangshan Tang, Haodong Wu, Jing Zhang, Min Xiao, Keyu Xia. Broad-intensity-range optical nonreciprocity based on feedback-induced Kerr nonlinearity[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(7): 1218 Copy Citation Text show less
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