Nonreciprocal optical devices, allowing transmission of light with different efficiencies in opposite directions, are key elements for modern optical communication and even quantum information technologies, but elusive to be integrated on a chip to date. Such devices exploring nonlinearity can. Optical nonreciprocity is of fundamental importance for signal processing in modern optical communication systems. An all-fiber device, containing two mutually coupled Fabry-Perot (FP) resonators to realize broken parity-time (PT) symmetry, is demonstrated to achieve nonreciprocal light. This paper presents a novel interferometric fiber optic gyroscope (IFOG) architecture, the Double-Sensitive Non-Reciprocal Polarization Phase Shifter IFOG (DS-NRPPS-IFOG), which intro-duces—for the first time—a fully passive phase biasing scheme capable of simultaneous operation at two quadrature. Faraday circulators (or less specifically optical circulators) are a kind of non-reciprocal optical devices. They are technically related to Faraday isolators, and on a broader scale similar to electronic circulators.
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