Abstract
We experimentally realized parity-time symmetry in active-passive-coupled microtoroid resonators and further demonstrated variable, ultrasensitive optical isolation in such a compound system through introducing gain-saturation nonlinearity to break time-reversal symmetry.
© 2014 Optical Society of America
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