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Recent advances in coherent perfect absorber-lasers and their future applications

相干完美吸收-激光器的最新进展及其未来应用展望

Journal of Central South University volume 29, pages 3203–3216 (2022)Cite this article

Abstract

In recent years, peculiar physical phenomena enabled by non-Hermitian systems, especially the parity-time (PT)-symmetric systems, have drawn tremendous research interests. Particularly, special spectral degeneracies known as exceptional points (EPs) and coherent perfect absorber-laser (CPAL) points where zero and infinite large eigenvalues coexist are the most popular topics to be studied. To date, the discussions of EPs that serve as transition boundaries between broken PT-symmetry phase and exact PT-symmetry phase have been intensively presented. However, the theoretical analysis and experimental validations of CPAL points are inadequate. Different from EPs, CPAL points, as a special solution of broken PT-symmetry phase, may exhibit even further counterintuitive physical features, which may have significant implications to study non-Hermitian physics. Here, we review some recent advances of CPAL phenomena in different sub-disciplines of physics, including optics, electronics and electromagnetics, and acoustics. Additionally, we also provide an envision of future directions and applications of CPAL systems.

摘要

近年来，非厄米系统，特别是宇称-时间(PT)对称系统引起的特殊物理现象吸引了许多科研人员。具有光谱退化性质的异常点(EP)和特征值分别为无限大及零的相干完美吸收-激光(CPAL)点是其中最为热门的研究课题。迄今为止，对于作为PT对称系统的破缺相和确定相边界的EP讨论已经有了非常多的成果。然而，针对CPAL点的理论分析和实验验证，相对于EP 来说，仍有不足。与EP 不同，CPAL点作为PT对称系统中破缺相中的一个特殊解，可能会表现出更加违反直觉的物理特征，而这些表现可能对研究非厄米物理学有着重要的意义。本文回顾了在不同物理子学科中关于CPAL现象的一些研究，包括光学、电子和电磁学、以及声学。此外，对于CPAL系统未来可能的发展方向及应用给出了一些设想。

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Yang, My., Ye, Zl., Zhu, L. et al. Recent advances in coherent perfect absorber-lasers and their future applications. J. Cent. South Univ. 29, 3203–3216 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11771-022-5160-0

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