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Coherent perfect absorption (CPA) has been a topic of considerable contemporary research interest. Most of the theoretical treatment of CPA with beams, to the best of our knowledge, relies on a scalar (in some cases coupled mode) theories…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-25 Sauvik Roy , Nirmalya Ghosh , Ayan Banerjee , Subhasish Dutta Gupta

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 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

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

We present an asymmetric bifacial graphene metasurface to realize tunable and broadband coherent perfect absorption (CPA) at terahertz (THz) frequencies. The proposed design is composed of two dissimilar graphene square patch metasurfaces…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-06 Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos

We review some of the recent concepts and their realization exploiting the perfect destructive interference of light in micro and nano structures. One refers to optical structures where the effective absorption can be controlled and…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-17 K. Nireekshan Reddy , S. Dutta Gupta

Poorly transparent barriers (e.g., reinforced walls, shielding panels, metallic or high-contrast dielectrics) strongly reflect incident radiation, limiting wireless power transfer (WPT) unless the barrier is structurally modified to support…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-25 Alex Krasnok

Through temporal shaping of the excitation signal, the complex-frequency scattering zeros of a lossless structure can be accessed, enabling a storage-release mechanism referred to as coherent virtual absorption. Practical demonstrations of…

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

In a recent work, Y.D. Chong et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 105}, 053901 (2010)] proposed the idea of a coherent perfect absorber (CPA) as the time-reversed counterpart of a laser, in which a purely incoming radiation pattern is completely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Longhi

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

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

Coherent perfect absorption (CPA) was introduced as a classical optics phenomenon of a standing-wave absorption by a subwavelength film. In this paper, we develop a theory of CPA of quantized standing waves taking account of a subwavelength…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Anton N. Vetlugin

A technique for the design of conformal metasurfaces with two spatially disconnected space wave ports connected by a surface wave is presented. The passive and lossless metasurface absorbs the incident plane wave at port 1, converts it…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Jordan Budhu

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

We introduce the concept of multichannel Floquet Perfect Absorbers (FPAs) which are periodically modulated lossy interferometric traps that completely absorb incident monochromatic waves. The proposed FPA protocols utilize a Floquet…

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.…

Continuous aperture array (CAPA) is considered a promising technology for 6G networks, offering the potential to fully exploit spatial DoFs and achieve the theoretical limits of channel capacity. This paper investigates the performance gain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Mingjun Sun , Chongjun Ouyang , Zhaolin Wang , Shaochuan Wu , Yuanwei Liu

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

The use of Wavefront Sensors (WFS) is nowadays fundamental in the field of instrumental optics. This paper discusses the principle of an original and recently proposed new class of WFS. Their principle consists in evaluating the slopes of…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-23 Francois Henault