Casting dissipative compact states in coherent perfect absorbers

Autor: C. Danieli, T. Mithun
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Physical Review Research, Vol 2, Iss 1, p 013054 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013054
Popis: Coherent perfect absorption (CPA), also known as time-reversed laser, is a wave phenomenon resulting from the reciprocity of destructive interference of transmitted and reflected waves. In this work we consider quasi-one-dimensional lattice networks which posses at least one flat band and show that CPA and lasing can be induced in both linear and nonlinear regimes of this lattice by fine-tuning non-Hermitian defects (dissipative terms localized within one unit-cell). We show that local dissipations that yield CPA simultaneously yield novel dissipative compact solutions of the lattice, whose growth or decay in time can be fine-tuned via the dissipation parameter. The scheme used to numerically visualize the theoretical findings offers a novel platform for the experimental implementation of these phenomena in optical devices.
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