Nonreciprocal Multi-mode and Indirect Couplings in Cavity Magnonics

Abstract: We investigate the magnon-photon couplings by employing a small magnet within an irregular resonant cavity, which leads to a desirable nonreciprocity with a big isolation ratio. Moreover, the higher-order couplings between the spin wave modes with the polarized photon modes also exhibit the nonreciprocity. These couplings between polarized photon and spin waves could be regarded as an indirect multi-modes coupling between the ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) mode and spin wave mode magnons mediated by the cavity mode photons. We also derive a coupling matrix to predict the characteristics of this kind of indirect coupling. The existence of the indirect couplings broaden the field range of the nonreciprocity of the system. The achieved nonreciprocal multi-mode magnon-photon couplings in a single system offer a feasible method to improve the signal transmission quality.