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Tailoring critical light-matter coupling is a fundamental challenge of nanophotonics, impacting diverse fields from higher harmonic generation and energy conversion to surface-enhanced spectroscopy. Plasmonic perfect absorbers (PAs), where…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-08 Juan Wang , Thomas Weber , Andreas Aigner , Stefan A. Maier , Andreas Tittl

Absorption of electromagnetic energy by a dissipative material is one of the most fundamental electromagnetic processes that underlies a plethora of applied problems, including sensing and molecular detection, radar detection, wireless…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-31 Alexey Proskurin , Andrey Bogdanov , Denis G. Baranov

We consider linear and nonlinear coherent perfect absorbers (CPAs) in multidimensional geometries and construct explicitly the respective perfectly absorbed solutions. The multidimensional CPAs have a structure of the so-called simple…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-26 Vladimir V. Konotop , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

Near-perfect absorbers (NPAs) efficiently absorb visible light with a layered nanostructure that is thinner than the diffusion lengths of photogenerated charge carriers. We overcame existing limitations in fabricating their nanoparticulate…

We propose an electro-optic approach for transparent optical networking, in which frequency channels are actively transformed into any desired mapping in a wavelength-multiplexed environment. Based on electro-optic phase modulators and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Joseph M. Lukens , Hsuan-Hao Lu , Bing Qi , Pavel Lougovski , Andrew M. Weiner , Brian P. Williams

An arbitrary optical waveform can be synthesized by complex-frequency waves as well as by realfrequency harmonic waves. While single complex-frequency wave with exponentially rising waveform can be perfectly absorbed in lossless structures.…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-22 Zhaohua Tian , Yu Tian , Yadi Niu , Qi Liu , Zihan Mo , Haoyang Zhang , Qihuang Gong , Ying Gu

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

There is a study of coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in composite medium (CM) which is made of metal-dielectric composition. The CM, an orthorhombic shaped slab, is illuminated by two identical Gaussian beams (GB) incident at equal angle…

Optics · Physics 2014-02-04 Sanjeeb Dey

Spectral singularities and the coherent perfect absorption are two interrelated concepts that have originally been introduced and studied for linear waves interacting with complex potentials. In the meantime, the distinctive asymptotic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-22 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

Motivated by recent claims, we revisit how coherent perfect absorption (CPA) influences cavity and polaritonic linewidths. Using standard input output theory and measurements on single port bare microwave cavities and cavity magnon hybrids,…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 M. Ebrahimi , Y. Huang , A. Rashedi , J. P. Davis

Multiphoton absorption (MPA) is a nonlinear optical process that involves simultaneous absorption of two or more photons by a material to promote its ground state to an excited state. Multiphoton absorption promises many important…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-15 Venkatram Nalla

This paper presents a novel framework for enhancing physical-layer security in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems by leveraging the reconfigurability of fluid antenna systems (FAS). We propose a joint precoding and port…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Abdelhamid Salem , Hao Xu , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

Fluid antennas (FAs) and mobile antennas (MAs) are innovative technologies in wireless communications that are able to proactively improve channel conditions by dynamically adjusting the transmit/receive antenna positions within a given…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-19 Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Yijie Liu , Boyu Ning , Zhi Chen

Coherent perfect absorbers (CPAs) have recently attracted considerable attention due to their ability to enhance light--matter interaction. By exploiting interference, CPAs enable even weakly absorbing materials to achieve complete…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-18 Helmut Hörner , Şahin K. Özdemir , Stefan Rotter

This work presents a concept for the localisation of Lamb waves using a Passive Phased Array (PPA). A Warped Frequency Transformation (WFT) is applied to the acquired signals using numerically determined phase velocity information to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Luke Pollock , Graham Wild

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

Reconfigurability is a desired characteristic of future communication networks. From a transceiver's standpoint, this can be materialized through the implementation of fluid antennas (FAs). An FA consists of a dielectric holder, in which a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-26 Constantinos Psomas , Ghassan M. Kraidy , Kai-Kit Wong , Ioannis Krikidis

Optical drives at terahertz and mid-infrared frequencies in quantum materials are increasingly used to reveal the nonlinear dynamics of collective modes in correlated many-body systems and their interplay with electromagnetic waves. Recent…

A compact versatile photoacoustic (PA) sensor for trace gas detection is reported. The sensor is based on an integrating sphere as the PA absorption cell with an organ pipe tube attached to increase the sensitivity of the PA sensor. The…

A microwave ultra-broadband polarization-independent metamaterial absorber is demonstrated. It is composed of a periodic array of metal-dielectric multilayered quadrangular frustum pyramids. These pyramids possess resonant absorption modes…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Fei Ding , Yanxia Cui , Xiaochen Ge , Yi Jin , Sailing He