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We suggest graphene and a two-dimensional (2D) Weyl semimetal (WSM) as 2D materials for the realization of a broadband coherent perfect absorber (CPA) respecting overall PT-symmetry. We also demonstrate the conditions for mutually equal…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-16 Mustafa Sarisaman , Murat Tas

We exploited graphene nanoribbons based meta-surface to realize coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in the mid-infrared regime. It was shown that quasi-CPA frequencies, at which CPA can be demonstrated with proper phase modulations, exist for…

We propose and analyze a scheme for realizing tunable coherent perfect absorption (CPA) and reflection (CPR) in a three-level $\Lambda$-type atom-cavity system. With EIT-type interference induced by a coherent coupling laser, the scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Miaodi Guo

Recently, a broad spectrum of exceptional scattering effects, including bound states in the continuum, exceptional points in PT-symmetrical non-Hermitian systems, and many others attainable in wisely suitably engineered structures have been…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-26 Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alú

We study coherent perfect absorption (CPA) theoretically based on a weakly coupled atom-cavity system with an optically pumped second-order nonlinear crystal (SOC) embedded in the cavity. Our system does not require a strong coupling, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Wei Xiong , Jiaojiao Chen , Baolong Fang , Chi-Hang Lam , J. Q. You

Coherent perfect absorption (CPA), also known as time-reversed laser, is a wave phenomenon resulting from the reciprocity of destructive interference of transmitted and reflected waves. In this work we consider quasi one-dimensional lattice…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-09 Carlo Danieli , Mithun Thudiyangal

Conjugate metamaterials, in which the permittivity and the permeability are complex conjugates of each other, possess the elements of loss and gain simultaneously. By employing a conjugate metamaterial with a purely imaginary form, we…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-25 Yangyang Fu , Yanyan Cao , Steven A. Cummer , Yadong Xu , Huanyang Chen

We consider a non-Hermitian medium with a gain and loss symmetric, exponentially damped potential distribution to demonstrate different scattering features analytically. The condition for critical coupling (CC) for unidirectional wave and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mohammad Hasan , Ananya Ghatak , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We analyze a scheme for controlling coherent photon absorption by cavity electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in a three-level atom-cavity system. Coherent perfect absorption (CPA) can occur when time-reversed symmetry of lasing…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-01 Miaodi Guo

In this work, we report coherent perfect absorption (CPA) of anti-modes in an indirectly coupled magnon--polariton system. By examining both single and indirectly coupled cases, we experimentally distinguish the modal decay rate $\gamma$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Chenyang Lu , Jiguang Yao , Jiongjie Wang , Jiang Xiao , Can-Ming Hu

A Coherent Perfect Absorber (CPA) exploits the interferometric nature of light to deposit all of a light field's incident energy into an otherwise weakly absorbing sample. The downside of this concept is that the necessary destructive…

One of the key insights in the emerging field of non-Hermitian photonics is that well-established concepts like the laser can be operated in reverse to realize a 'coherent perfect absorber' (CPA). While conceptually appealing, such CPAs are…

Non-Hermitian photonic systems capable of perfectly absorbing incident radiation recently attracted much attention both because fundamentally they correspond to an exotic scattering phenomenon (a real-valued scattering matrix zero) and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Philipp del Hougne , K. Brahima Yeo , Philippe Besnier , Matthieu Davy

We demonstrate that a self-complementary checkerboard-like metasurface works as a broadband coherent perfect absorber (CPA) when symmetrically illuminated by two counter-propagating incident waves. A theoretical analysis based on wave…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-21 Yoshiro Urade , Yosuke Nakata , Toshihiro Nakanishi , Masao Kitano

We investigate the design and performance of a new multilayer graphene metasurface for achieving ultrabroadband coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in the THz regime. The proposed structure comprises of three graphene patterned metasurfaces…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-30 Wei Zou , Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

Non-Hermitian systems have recently shown new possibilities to manipulate wave scattering by exploiting loss, yet coherent perfect absorption at an exceptional point (CPA EP) remains elusive in acoustics. Here we demonstrate it based on a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Yi-Fei Xia , Zi-Xiang Xu , Yu-Ting Yan , An Chen , Jing Yang , Bin Liang , Jian-Chun Cheng , Johan Christensen

We present a simple closed expression for determining the condition for Coherent Perfect Absorption derived through electromagnetic wave treatment and interface boundary conditions. Apart from providing physical insight this expression can…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-17 Sanjeeb Dey , Suneel Singh

Coherent perfect absorption (CPA) is an interference process associated with the zeros of the scattering matrix that enables light-with-light interactions in linear systems, of interest for optical computing, data processing and sensing.…

We report the experimental realization of acoustic coherent perfect absorption (CPA) of four symmetric scatterers of very different structures. The only conditions necessary for these scatterers to exhibit CPA are that both the reflection…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Chong Meng , Xiaonan Zhang , Suet To Tang , Min Yang , Zhiyu Yang

We prove that coherent perfect absorption (CPA) without lasing is {\bf not} possible in the PT-symmetric domain as the s-matrix is such that $|\det S(\pm k)|=1$. We study coherent scattering from three complex potentials, one solved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Zafar Ahmed