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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 consider a symmetric gap plasmon guide (a folded Kretschmann configuration) supporting both symmeric and antisymmetric coupled surface plasmons. We calculate the transverse spin under illumination from both the sides like in coherent…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-20 Samyobrata Mukherjee , S. Dutta Gupta

Non-Hermitian wave engineering has attracted a surge of interest in photonics in recent years. One of the prominent phenomena is coherent perfect absorption (CPA), in which the annihilation of electromagnetic scattering occurs by…

Coherent perfect absorption (CPA)-the time-reversed operation of lasing at threshold-relies on finely tuned interference and is intrinsically fragile to disorder and structural imperfections. Whether absorption can be endowed with…

In this work, we theoretically find that coherent perfect absorption (CPA) and laser modes can be realized in a two-dimensional cylindrical structure composed of conjugate metamaterials (CMs). The required phase factors of CMs for achieving…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Yangyang Fu , Yadong Xu , Huanyang Chen , Steven A. Cummer

Coherent perfect absorber (CPA) was proposed as the time-reversed counterpart to laser: a resonator containing lossy medium instead of gain medium can absorb the coherent optical fields completely. Here, we exploit a monolayer graphene to…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-27 Yuancheng Fan , Fuli Zhang , Qian Zhao , Zeyong Wei , Hongqiang Li

We examine the question of coherent perfect absorption (CPA) of single photons, and more generally, of the quantum fields by a {\it macroscopic} medium. We show the CPA of path entangled single photons in a Fabry-Perot interferometer…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sumei Huang , G. S. Agarwal

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

The ability to drive a system with an external input is a fundamental aspect of light-matter interaction. The coherent perfect absorption (CPA) phenomenon extends to the general multibeam interference phenomenology the well known critical…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-02 Lorenzo Baldacci , Simone Zanotto , Alessandro Tredicucci

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

We experimentally and theoretically challenge the concept of coherent perfect absorption (CPA) as a narrow frequency resonant mechanism associated with scattering processes that respect scale-invariance. Using a microwave platform,…

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 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) describes the absence of all outgoing modes from a lossy resonator, driven by lossless incoming modes. Here, we show that for nanoresonators that also exhibit radiative losses, e.g. plasmonic nanoantennas,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-08 Philipp Grimm , Gary Razinskas , Jer-Shing Huang , Bert Hecht

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 propose a scheme for controlling nonlinear coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in a three-level \Lambda-type atom-cavity system. Generally, the normally nonlinear CPA and the bistable CPA can be attained at the different frequencies of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Miaodi Guo

Absorption of light is directly associated with dissipative processes in a material. In suitably tailored resonators, a specific level of dissipation can support coherent perfect absorption, the time-reversed analogue of lasing, which…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-26 Denis G Baranov , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alù

Based on both analytical dipole model analyses and numerical simulations, we propose a concept of coherent perfect nanoabsorbers (CPNAs) for divergent beams. This concept makes use of the properties of a slab with negative refraction and…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-09 Vasily Klimov , Shulin Sun , Guang-Yu Guo

Absorption of electromagnetic energy by a material is a phenomenon that underlies many applied problems, including molecular sensing, photocurrent generation and photodetection. Commonly, the incident energy is delivered to the system…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-11 Denis G. Baranov , Alex Krasnok , Timur Shegai , Andrea Alù , Y. D. Chong

Two classes of conservative, linear, optical rotary effects (optical activity and Faraday rotation) are distinguished by their behavior under time reversal. In analogy with coherent perfect absorption, where counterpropagating light fields…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Michael Crescimanno , Nathan J. Dawson , James H. Andrews