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The unique properties of exceptional point (EP) singularities, arising from non-Hermitian physics, have unlocked new possibilities for manipulating light-matter interactions. A tailored gain-loss variation, while encircling higher-order EPs…

Optical amplifiers are fundamental to modern photonics, enabling long-distance communications, precision sensing, and quantum information processing. Erbium-doped amplifiers dominate telecommunications but are restricted to specific…

Many novel properties of non-Hermitian systems are found at or near the exceptional points-branch points of complex energy surfaces at which eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. In particular, higher-order exceptional points can result in…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-21 Shubo Wang , Bo Hou , Weixin Lu , Yuntian Chen , Z. Q. Zhang , C. T. Chan

Motivated by our recent findings in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013902, 2022], which introduces a new class of electromagnetic bulk materials whose response is similar to conventional semiconductor transistors, here we propose a one-dimensional…

A phonon laser based on an optomechanical system consisting of two optical modes interacting with each other via a phononic mode is considered. An external wave exciting one of the optical modes plays a role of the pumping. It is shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 A. Mukhamedyanov , A. A. Zyablovsky , E. S. Andrianov

Driven-dissipative systems provide a natural setting for the emergence of exceptional points -- i.e. non-Hermitian degeneracies where eigenmodes coalesce. These points are important for applications such as sensing, where enhanced…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Mawgan A. Smith , Ryan D. McKenzie , Alban Joseph , Robert L. Stamps , Rair Macêdo

Optical communication systems, operating in C-band, are reaching their theoretically achievable capacity limits. An attractive and economically viable solution to satisfy the future data rate demands is to employ the transmission across the…

Exceptional points are spectral degeneracies of non-Hermitian systems where both eigenfrequencies and eigenmodes coalesce. The eigenfrequency sensitivities near an exceptional point are significantly enhanced, whereby they diverge directly…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Felix Binkowski , Julius Kullig , Fridtjof Betz , Lin Zschiedrich , Andrea Walther , Jan Wiersig , Sven Burger

Recently a type of robust exceptional points was found that is insensitive to the coupling disorder in the bulk. Here we show that a disparity emerges when the number of coupled cavities in this one-dimensional array changes from even to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Jose D. H. Rivero , Li Ge

Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological advances for both fundamental science and industrial applications. Along…

Ultrafast lasers are becoming increasingly widespread in science and industry alike. Fiber-based ultrafast laser sources are especially attractive because of their compactness, alignment-free setups, and potentially low costs. However,…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-10 Pavel Sidorenko , Walter Fu , Frank Wise

Higher-order exceptional points have attracted increased attention in recent years due to their enhanced sensitivity and distinct topological features. Here, we show that nonlocal acoustic metagratings that enable precise and simultaneous…

We propose an optomechanical nano-gravimeter based on exceptional points. The system is a coupled cavity optomechanical system, in which the gain and loss are applied by driving the cavities with a blue detuned and red detuned…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 Jian Liu , Lei Chen , Ka-Di Zhu

Parametric amplifiers have allowed breakthroughs in ultrafast, strong-field, and high-energy density laser science and are an essential tool for extending the frequency range of powerful emerging diode-pumped solid-state laser technology.…

Over the past decade, the issue of gain degradation at broadside in periodic leaky-wave antennas (P-LWAs) has been resolved, using a circuit modeling approach, by introducing proper asymmetry in the unit cell of the antenna structure. This…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-07 Amar Al-Bassam , Dirk Heberling , Christophe Caloz

We have observed the quench of the lasing at the exceptional point in the electronic circuit system by applying asymmetric gain in the coupled oscillator. Since there is the analogy between oscillation in laser and oscilation in the…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-04 Sungmook Kang , Heeso Noh

The amplitude of resonant oscillations in a non-Hermitian environment can either decay or grow in time, corresponding to a mode with either loss or gain. When two coupled modes have a specific difference between their loss or gain, a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 N. J. Lambert , A. Schumer , J. J. Longdell , S. Rotter , H. G. L. Schwefel

Chip-based optical amplifiers can significantly expand the functionalities of photonic devices. In particular, optical-parametric amplifiers (OPAs), with engineerable gain-spectra, are well-suited for nonlinear-photonic applications.…

Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracies in open wave systems where at least two energy levels and their corresponding eigenstates coalesce. We report evidence of the existence of EPs in 3D plasmonic nanostructures. The systems are…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-02 Ashok Kodigala , Thomas Lepetit , Boubacar Kanté

One of the most intriguing topological features of open systems is exhibiting exceptional point (EP) singularities. Apart from the widely explored second-order EPs (EP2s), the explorations of higher-order EPs in any system requires more…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-01 Arnab Laha , Dinesh Beniwal , Sibnath Dey , Abhijit Biswas , Somnath Ghosh