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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

Narrowband perfect absorbers are interesting for spectrum sensing, molecular detection, and infrared imaging. However, their design remains constrained by intuitive, iterative methods that lack flexibility, while also facing challenges in…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-04 H. Shen , T. Wang , X. Yao , O. Wu , C. Xie , C. Qian , H. Chen , T. Wang

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

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

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

The lasing and coherent perfect absorption (CPA) properties of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric microrings with mixed index and gain gratings, externally coupled to a bus waveguide, are theoretically investigated. For a complex grating at the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Stefano Longhi , Liang Feng

In this thesis we address a series of new problems in non-hermitian optical scattering with increasing degrees of complexity. We develop the theory of reflectionless scattering modes, introducing a novel and broad class of impedance-matched…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-10 William R. Sweeney

Wireless sensor networks (WSN), i.e. networks of autonomous, wireless sensing nodes spatially deployed over a geographical area, are often faced with acquisition of spatially sparse fields. In this paper, we present a novel bandwidth/energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Stefania Colonnese , Roberto Cusani , Stefano Rinauro , Giorgia Ruggiero , Gaetano Scarano

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

Wavefront shaping enables targeted delivery of coherent light into random-scattering media, such as biological tissue, by constructive interference of scattered waves. However, broadband waves have short coherence times, weakening the…

Modern electronic systems operate in complex electromagnetic environments and must handle noise and unwanted coupling. The capability to isolate or reject unwanted signals for mitigating vulnerabilities is critical in any practical…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Benjamin W. Frazier , Thomas M. Antonsen , Steven M. Anlage , Edward Ott

Bimodal Fabry-P\'erot interferometer is a model generalizing the conventional Fabry-P\'erot interferometer, in which not one but two kinds of waves propagate between the interfaces. Here, we study coherent perfect absorption (CPA) and…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Dmitry A. Bykov , Evgeni A. Bezus , Leonid L. Doskolovich

The Fluid Antenna System (FAS) overcomes the spatial degree-of-freedom limitations of conventional static antenna arrays in wireless communications.This capability critically depends on acquiring full Channel State Information across all…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Xuehui Dong , Kai Wan , Shuangyang Li , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

Complete absorption of electromagnetic waves is paramount in today's applications, ranging from photovoltaics to cross-talk prevention into sensitive devices. In this context, we use a genetic algorithm (GA) strategy to optimize absorption…

The escalating data rate demands of future wireless communications necessitate the deployment of extremely large aperture arrays (ELAAs) in communication systems. Acquiring accurate channel state information is crucial to execute effective…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Heling Zhang , Shidong Zhou

A continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based secure communication system is investigated, where a base station equipped with a CAPA transmits signals to a legitimate user under the existence of an eavesdropper. For improving the secrecy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Jingjing Zhao , Haowen Song , Xidong Mu , Kaiquan Cai , Yanbo Zhu , Yuanwei Liu

Beamforming design for extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems is challenging due to prohibitive computational complexity and complex near-field propagation effects. To address this, this paper introduces a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xiyuan Liu , Qingqing Wu , Rui Wang , Qiaoyan Peng , Jun Wu

Periodically time-varying media, known as photonic time crystals (PTCs), provide a promising platform for observing unconventional wave phenomena. We analyze the scattering of electromagnetic waves from spatially finite PTCs using the…

We investigate Perfect Absorption (PA) of radiation, in which incoming energy is entirely dissipated, in a system consisting of molecular spin centers coherently coupled to a planar microwave resonator operated at milliKelvin temperature…

Black phosphorus (BP), a relative new plasmonic two-dimensional (2D) material, offers unique photonic and electronic properties. In this work, we propose a new tunable and broadband ultrathin coherent perfect absorber (CPA) device operating…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-10 Tianjing Guo , Christos Argyropoulos