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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

The evolution of programmable metasurfaces (PM) from passive beamforming to active information transmission marks a paradigm shift for next-generation wireless systems. However, this transition is hindered by fundamental limitations in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xuehui Dong , Miyu Feng , Chen Shao , Bokai Lai , Jianan Zhang , Rujing Xiong , Kai Wan , Tiebin Mi , Robert Caiming Qiu

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

Utilizing the effect of losses, we show that symmetric 3-port devices exhibit coherent perfect absorption of waves and we provide the corresponding conditions on the reflection and transmission coefficients. Infinite combinations of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 O. Richoux , V. Achilleos , G. Theocharis , I. Brouzos

We demonstrate that the metamaterial perfect absorber behaves as a meta-cavity bounded between a resonant metasurface and a metallic thin-film reflector. The perfect absorption is achieved by the Fabry-Perot cavity resonance via multiple…

The next generations of wireless networks are envisioned to integrate communications, sensing, and computing into a unified platform, demanding ultra-high data rates, submillisecond latency, and unprecedented energy efficiency. However,…

We propose an ultrahigh-efficiency, broadband and multi-channel all-optical switching scheme based on broadband coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in a linear and nonlinear regimes in a cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) system. Two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Liyong Wang , Yinxue Zhao , Jiajia Du

Scattering-assisted synthesis of broadband optical pulses is recognized to have a cross-disciplinary funda-mental and application importance. Achieving full-waveform synthesis generally requires means for assessing the instantaneous…

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

Real-time monitoring of functional tissue parameters, such as local blood oxygenation, based on optical imaging could provide groundbreaking advances in the diagnosis and interventional therapy of various diseases. While photoacoustic (PA)…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Thomas Kirchner , Janek Gröhl , Lena Maier-Hein

We consider the numerical approximation of boundary conditions in radiative transfer problems by a perfectly matched layer approach. The main idea is to extend the computational domain by an absorbing layer and to use an appropriate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Herbert Egger , Matthias Schlottbom

We present a framework for achieving broadband perfect wave transmission in complex systems by optimizing symmetric disordered media via inverse design. We show that leveraging symmetry of complex media reduces the optimization's complexity…

This paper investigates a pinching-antenna (PA)-enabled cognitive radio network, where both the primary transmitter (PT) and secondary transmitter (ST) are equipped with a single waveguide and multiple PAs to facilitate simultaneous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Zeyang Sun , Xidong Mu , Shuai Han , Sai Xu , Michail Matthaiou

Using metasurfaces to control the wave propagation at will has been very successful over the broad electromagnetic spectrum in recent years. By encoding specially designed abrupt changes of electromagnetic parameters into metasurfaces, such…

We study the fundamental limit on the localization precision for a subwavelength scatterer embedded in a strongly scattering environment, using the external degrees of freedom provided by wavefront shaping. For a weakly scattering target,…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-05 Dorian Bouchet , Rémi Carminati , Allard P. Mosk

Using time as an additional design parameter in electromagnetism, photonics, and wave physics is attracting considerable research interest, motivated by the possibility to explore physical phenomena and engineering opportunities beyond the…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-12 Matteo Ciabattoni , Zeki Hayran , Francesco Monticone

Pinching-antenna (PA) systems have recently emerged as a promising member of the flexible-antenna family due to their ability to dynamically establish line-of-sight (LoS) links. While most existing studies assume ideal environments without…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding , Xianbin Wang

We theoretically study the conditions under which two laser fields can undergo Coherent Perfect Absorption (CPA) when shined on a single-mode bi-directional optical cavity coupled with two two- level quantum emitters (natural atoms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Zibo Wang , Pawan Khatiwada , Dan Wang , Imran M. Mirza

This paper proposes a novel multi-mode pinching-antenna systems (PASS) framework. Multiple data streams can be transmitted within a single waveguide through multiple guided modes, thus facilitating efficient multi-user communications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Xiaoxia Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Arumugam Nallanathan

Perfect, broadband and asymmetric sound absorption is theoretically, numerically and experimentally reported by using subwavelength thickness panels in a transmission problem. The panels are composed of a periodic array of varying…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-08-14 Noé Jiménez , Vicent Romero-García , Vincent Pagneux , Jean-Philippe Groby