Scientists Realize Breakthrough in Controlling the Transmission of Light

Scientists Realize Breakthrough in Controlling the Transmission of Light

Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY, 2.8.18

Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and at the University of Texas at Austin recently developed a new method of light-wave transmission that could help solve the problem of our rapidly decreasing available broad bandwidth. The innovative approach does not require magnets or any other form of “external bias” for reliable wave transmission, yet it ensures highly efficient broad bandwidth isolation. “We have been working on overcoming reciprocity without magnets for a few years,” said Andrea Alù, director of the ASRC’s Photonics Initiative and Einstein Professor of Physics.
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