The present invention provides a method of realizing a bidirectional optical
diode and a device of realizing the bidirectional optical
diode. The scheme of the present invention is that: two beams of
coupling fields which are irradiated oppositely and possess a certain frequency detuning are acted on a thermokalite
metal atom steam chest, so that an atomic medium generates the periodic modulation to a
refractive index of the probe light, the transmission characteristic of the bidirectional incident probe light is operated and controlled effectively, and a bidirectional optical
diode function possessing certain
frequency interval and frequency width is realized. A
frequency interval depends on the frequency detuning difference between the
bidirectional coupling fields, and a frequency width depends on a
Doppler effect caused by the random motion of hot atoms. Meanwhile, a pair of coherent pumping fields are introduced, the
bidirectional transmission efficiency of an optical diode can be improved effectively, and an isolation ratio is not influenced. The device involved in the present invention is easy to miniaturize and integrate, can form a practical light
quantum device, and can be widely used in the research fields, such as the multichannel
quantum state storage, the
quantum information storage, such as an tunable all-
optical control optical switch, an optical reflector, etc., the quantum
relay network, etc.