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It has been shown that perfect photon absorption can occur in the linear excitation regime of cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED), in which photons from two identical light fields coupled into two ends of the cavity are completely…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-15 G. S. Agarwal , Ke Di , Liyong Wang , Yifu Zhu

Coherent Perfect Absorber (CPA) and Laser is a pair of inversely worked wave structure satisfying the time-reversal relation. We point out that, if the wave energy absorbed by CPA can be recovered by somewhat way and then be reemitted by…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-11 Shuting Cao , Zhilin Hou

Quantum technologies are built on the power of coherent superposition. Atomic coherence is typically generated from optical coherence, most often via Rabi oscillations. However, canonical coherent states of light create imperfect resources;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 Aaron Z. Goldberg , Aephraim M. Steinberg

Plasma ignition is critical in various scientific and industrial applications, demanding an efficient and robust execution mechanism. In this work, we present an innovative approach to plasma ignition by incorporating the analysis of…

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

We show that an arbitrary body or aggregate can be made perfectly absorbing at discrete frequencies if a precise amount of dissipation is added under specific conditions of coherent monochromatic illumination. This effect arises from the…

Optics · Physics 2010-08-03 Y. D. Chong , Li Ge , Hui Cao , A. D. Stone

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

Wavefront shaping (WFS) schemes for efficient energy deposition in weakly lossy targets is an ongoing challenge for many classical wave technologies relevant to next-generation telecommunications, long-range wireless power transfer, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-19 Lei Chen , Tsampikos Kottos , Steven M. Anlage

We investigate the two-channel nonreciprocal scattering of a coherent atomic ensemble under the linear spatial Kramers-Kronig modulation, which has potential applications in chiral phase modulation and broadband coherent perfect/asymmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Yi-Xin Wang , Yan Zhang , Lei Du , Jin-Hui Wu

Absorption of light is directly associated with dissipative processes in a material. In suitably tailored resonators, a specific level of dissipation can support coherent perfect absorption, the time-reversed analogue of lasing, which…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-26 Denis G Baranov , Alex Krasnok , Andrea Alù

Among the interesting outcomes of the study of the physical applications of spectral singularities in PT-symmetric optical systems is the discovery of CPA-lasers. These are devices that act both as a threshold laser and a coherent perfect…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-24 Ali Mostafazadeh , Mustafa Sarisaman

When two identical (coherent) beams are injected at a semi-infinite non-Hermitian medium from left and right, we show that both reflection $(r_L,r_R)$ and transmission $(t_L,t_R)$ amplitudes are non-reciprocal. In a parametric domain, there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Zafar Ahmed , Dona Ghosh , Sachin Kumar

Quantum states and measurements exhibit wave-like --- continuous, or particle-like --- discrete, character. Hybrid discrete-continuous photonic systems are key to investigating fundamental quantum phenomena, generating superpositions of…

Spectral singularities and the coherent perfect absorption are two interrelated concepts that have originally been introduced and studied for linear waves interacting with complex potentials. In the meantime, the distinctive asymptotic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-10-22 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

The fascinating concept of coherent quantum absorber - which can absorb any photon emitted by another system while maintaining entanglement with that system - has found diverse implications in open quantum system theory and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Mankei Tsang

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

It is shown that two fundamentally different phenomena, the bound states in continuum and the spectral singularity (or time-reversed spectral singularity), can occur simultaneously. This can be achieved, in particular, in a rectangular core…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-02 Bikashkali Midya , Vladimir V. Konotop

Standard quantum inference converts quantum data into classical outputs. We study an alternative inference setting in which the desired output is quantum, preserving coherence. Such settings include quantum purity amplification (QPA),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Zhaoyi Li , Elias Theil , Aram W. Harrow , Isaac Chuang

Light is known to exhibit quantum uncertainty in terms of its amplitude, phase, and polarization. However, quantum uncertainty related to coherence, which is also a fundamental physical property of light, has not been considered to date.…

Two-photon absorption (TPA) is of fundamental importance in super-resolution imaging and spectroscopy. Its nonlinear character allows for the prospect of using quantum resources, such as entanglement, to improve measurement precision or to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Gaetano Frascella , Frank Schlawin