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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

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

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 peculiarities of defect modes and reflection spectra of chiral photonic crystals (CPC) with an isotropic defect for various thicknesses of the defect layer was investigated. The peculiarities of the spectra of photonic density of the…

We investigate a time-harmonic wave problem in a waveguide. By means of asymptotic analysis techniques, we justify the so-called Fano resonance phenomenon. More precisely, we show that the scattering matrix considered as a function of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-29 Lucas Chesnel , Sergei A. Nazarov

The Schroedinger equation with an energy-dependent complex absorbing potential, associated with a scattering system, can be reduced for a special choice of the energy-dependence to a harmonic inversion problem of a discrete pseudo-time…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Neumaier , V. A. Mandelshtam

Coherent diffractive imaging has enabled the structural analysis of individual free nanoparticles in a single shot and offers the tracking of their light induced dynamics with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. The retrieval of…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-07 Björn Kruse , Benjamin Liewehr , Christian Peltz , Thomas Fennel

In this study, we propose the application of non-Hermitian photonic crystals (PCs) with anisotropic emissions. Unlike a ring of exceptional points (EPs) in isotropic non-Hermitian PCs, the EPs of anisotropic non-Hermitian PCs appear as…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-29 Zhifeng Li , Hai Lin , Rongxin Tang , Haitao Chen , Jiaru Tang , Rui Zhou , Jing Jin , Y. Liu

We investigate in a $2$D setting the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves by a plasmonic device, represented as a non dissipative bounded and penetrable obstacle with a negative permittivity. Using the $\textrm{T}$-coercivity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia , Camille Carvalho , Lucas Chesnel , Patrick Ciarlet

Motivated by applications in optics and acoustics we develop a dynamical-system approach to describe absorption in chaotic systems. We introduce an operator formalism from which we obtain (i) a general formula for the escape rate $\kappa$…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-25 Eduardo G. Altmann , Jefferson S. E. Portela , Tamás Tél

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

We present a study of virtual absorption modes (VAMs) in Schwarzschild-de Sitter (SdS) spacetime under semi-open boundary conditions, where the VAMs correspond to total transmission modes (TTMs) with the reflection amplitude being vanished.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 Liang-Bi Wu , Yu-Sen Zhou , Zhe Yu , Ming-Fei Jia , Li-Ming Cao

Quasi-parametric amplification (QPA) is a nonlinear interaction in which the idler wave is depleted through some loss mechanism. QPA plays an important role in signal amplification in ultrafast photonics and quantum light generation. The…

A design methodology for planar loaded antenna arrays is proposed to synthesize a perfect anomalous reflection into an arbitrary direction by optimizing the scattering characteristics of passively loaded array antennas. It is based on…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Sravan K. R. Vuyyuru , Risto Valkonen , Sergei A. Tretyakov , Do-Hoon Kwon

In this Letter we develop analytical formulations to describe sound scattering in lossless medium due to 2D circular wave incident on an acoustic cloak. A perfect acoustic cloak is reflectionless and can completely hide the cloaked object…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Siyang Zhong , Xun Huang

Geometrically decorated two-dimensional (2D) discrete surfaces can be more effective than conventional smooth reflectors in managing wave radiation. Constructive non-specular wave scattering permits the scattering angle to be other than…

At the core of an ideal single photon detector is an active material that ideally absorbs and converts photons to discriminable electronic signals. A large active material volume favours high-efficiency absorption, but often at the expense…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-09-15 Mohsen K. Akhlaghi , Ellen Schelew , Jeff F. Young

Symmetries and tunability are of fundamental importance in wave scattering control, but symmetries are often obvious upon visual inspection which constitutes a significant vulnerability of metamaterial wave devices to reverse-engineering…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Jérôme Sol , Malte Röntgen , Philipp del Hougne

The Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) is essential for initial access and synchronization in both 5G and future 6G networks; however, its detection is highly sensitive to impairments such as high user density, large carrier frequency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Daniel Alarcón-Martín , Mari Carmen Aguayo-Torres , Francisco J. Martín-Vega , Gerardo Gómez

Time-invariant photonic structures amplify or absorb light based on their intrinsic material gain or loss. The coherent interference of multiple beams in space, e.g., in a resonator, can be exploited to tailor the wave interaction with…