posted on 2023-01-10, 02:45authored byBanoj Kumar Nayak, Eyal Buks
We study magneto-optical coupling in a ferrimagnetic sphere resonator made of Yttrium iron garnet. We find that the resonator can be operated in the telecom band as a polarization-selective optical modulator. Intermodulation gain can be employed in the nonlinear regime for amplification.