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We demonstrate bending of light on the same side of the normal in a free standing corrugated metal film under bi-directional illumination. Coherent perfect absorption (CPA) is exploited to suppress the specular zeroth order leading to…

Optical nonlinearities offer unique possibilities for the control of light with light. A prominent example is electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) where the transmission of a probe beam through an optically dense medium is…

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.…

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

Lasing and coherent perfect absorption (CPA) are time-reversed manifestations of non-Hermitian light-matter interactions. While exceptional points (EPs) have been extensively explored for controlling lasing dynamics, their role in the…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-26 Arnab Laha , Somnath Ghosh , Adam Miranowicz , Lin Wu

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) is an optical phenomenon which allows a drastic modification of the optical properties of an atomic system by applying a control field. It has been largely studied in the last decades and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-27 H. S. Borges , M. H. Oliveira , C. J. Villas-Boas

We propose a novel scheme to realize electrically controlled quantum memories in the opto- and electro-mechanical (OEM) cavity. Combining this OEM cavity with the mechanism of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT) we find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Li-Guo Qin , Zhong-Yang Wang , Gong-Wei Lin , Jing-Yun Zhao , Shang-Qing Gong

Engineering the transport of radiation and its interaction with matter using non-Hermiticity, particularly through spectral degeneracies known as exceptional points(EPs), is an emerging field that has both fundamental and practical…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-03 S. Soleymani , Q. Zhong , M. Mokim , S. Rotter , R. El-Ganainy , S. K. Ozdemir

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 study the effect of a control beam on a Lambda electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) system in 87Rb. The control beam couples one ground state to another excited state forming a four level N-system. Phase coherent beams to drive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. G. Bason , A. K. Mohapatra , K. J. Weatherill , C. S. Adams

The simultaneous existence of coherent perfect absorption (CPA) and lasing is one of the most intriguing features of non-Hermitian photonics. However, the link between CPA lasing and PT symmetry breaking at the exceptional point (EP) needs…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-14 Denis Novitsky

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

Achieving the very special condition of perfect absorption (PA) in a complex scattering enclosure promises to enable a wealth of applications in secure communication, precision sensing, wireless power transfer, analog signal processing and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Mohammadreza F. Imani , David R. Smith , Philipp del Hougne

Light trapping and radiation process from linear reciprocal photonic resonators is one of the fundamental processes in optical science and engineering. Recently, the concept of coherent virtual absorption (CVA) of light was introduced and…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-01 Q. Zhong , L. Simonson , T. Kottos , R. El-Ganainy

This study presents the theoretical foundations of an analogous electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and absorption (EIA) which we are referring as coupling induced transparency (CIT) and absorption (CIA) respectively, along with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Kuldeep Kumar Shrivastava , Ansuman Sahu , Biswanath Bhoi , Rajeev Singh

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

We study the quantum interference between different weak signals in a three-port optomechanical system, which is achieved by coupling three cavity modes to the same mechanical mode. If one cavity serves as a control port and is perturbed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Lei Du , Yao-Tong Chen , Jin-Hui Wu , Yong Li

We study the coherent scattering process of a single photon confined in an one-dimensional (1D) coupled cavity-array, where a $\Lambda$-type three-level atom is placed inside one of the cavities in the array and behaves as a functional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-10 Z. R. Gong , H. Ian , Lan Zhou , C. P. Sun

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

The absorption of photons in a three-level atom can be controlled and manipulated by applying a coherent drive at one of the atomic transitions. The situation where the absorption is fully canceled, and the atom thus has been turned…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Andreas Ask , Yao-Lung L. Fang , Anton Frisk Kockum