Nonlocal coherent perfect absorption

Jeffers, John (2019) Nonlocal coherent perfect absorption. Physical Review Letters, 123 (14). 143602. ISSN 1079-7114 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.143602)

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Abstract

Coherent absorption that occurs at two spatially separated, macroscopic lossy beam splitters is described. A superposition mode of any phase can be chosen as the absorbed or transparent mode. For a nonclassical two-photon NOON-state input, a superposition of two photons entering via one of two separate input modes, a single photon can survive the pair of beam splitters with certainty, implying nonlocal absorption of a single photon, which can be detected via the interference in the two-photon survival probability.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:69828
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    4 October 2019
    Published
    1 October 2019
    Published Online
    10 September 2019
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics > Optics. Light
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:18 Sep 2019 09:29
    Last modified:21 Apr 2024 16:23
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/69828
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