Magnonics is an emerging field dealing with ultralow power consumption logic circuits, in which the flow of spin waves, rather than electric charges, transmits and processes information. Waves, including spin waves, excel at encoding information via their phase using interference. This enables a number of inputs to be processed in one device, which offers the promise of multi-input multi-output logic gates. To realize such an integrated device, it is essential to demonstrate spin wave interferometers using spatially isotropic spin waves with high operational stability. However, spin wave reflection at the waveguide edge has previously limited the stability of interfering waves, precluding the use of isotropic spin waves, i.e., forward volume waves. Here, a spin wave absorber is demonstrated comprising a yttrium iron garnet waveguide partially covered by gold. This device is shown experimentally to be a robust spin wave interferometer using the forward volume mode, with a large ON/OFF isolation value of 13.7 dB even in magnetic fields over 30 Oe.A spin wave (SW) is a radio frequency (rf) collective excitation of the magnetic moments in a magnetic material, a magnetic counterpart of elastic waves. The transmission properties of SWs can be extensively modulated depending on the strength of the bias magnetic field, the waveguide material and the geometry 1,2 . This enables engineering of arbitrary band structures for carrier signals in the several-GHz range. These unique properties have been widely used to design passive radio frequency elements, including tunable filters 3 and delay lines 4 . However, the most important feature of SWs is their propagation without charge transport. Thus SWs have attracted attention because they offer a new paradigm for information processing in which Joule loss and its accompanying heat generation is expected to be extremely small. Therefore, SWs could be used to represent information in beyond-CMOS devices 5 . To develop logic circuits based on SWs, active control of SW flow is required. Recently, a variety of systems showing spin dynamic effects 6-12 and artificially designed structures [13][14][15][16][17][18] manipulating the local magnetic moments have been investigated. These novel systems have motivated the creation of magnonics as a research field that addresses transport, storage and processing information using SWs 19,20 . A significant feature of SWs compared to other information carriers is the usefulness of their phase information, which can be easily manipulated in logic operations. Therefore a SW interferometer is an essential component for realization of logic devices [21][22][23] . Yttrium iron garnet (YIG) is suitable for SW waveguides because of its low magnetic damping and low out-of-plane saturation magnetic field [24][25][26][27][28] . Magnons can therefore conserve their phase information over long distances in a YIG waveguide. Yu et al. recently experimentally observed SW propagation over 600 μm using a 20 nm-thick YIG waveguide with in-plane magnetization 29...