Generation of Circulating Cavity Magnon Polaritons
Jeremy Bourhill, Weichao Yu, Vincent Vlaminck, G. Bauer, G. Ruoso, Vincent Castel
Abstract
In a circulating cavity magnon polariton (quantized spin wave plus photon, resonating in a microwave chamber), the hybrid state and a noninteracting photonic state rotate in opposite directions---an important phenomenon for generating chiral states of electromagnetic modes in cavity magnonics and microwave engineering, to impart angular momentum upon standing waves. This study demonstrates the unidirectional nature of the mode propagation, paving the way for the generation of a high-power microwave beam with high coherence and narrow bandwidth. The authors also demonstrate how the unidirectional mode propagation results in nonreciprocity of the mode's transmission amplitudes and phases.