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.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 143602 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue number | 14 |
| Early online date | 1 Oct 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Oct 2019 |
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Keywords
- coherent absorption
- photonics
- optics
- light energy
- beam splitting
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Nonlocal coherent perfect absorption. / Jeffers, John.
In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 123, No. 14, 143602, 04.10.2019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonlocal coherent perfect absorption
AU - Jeffers, John
PY - 2019/10/4
Y1 - 2019/10/4
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - coherent absorption
KW - photonics
KW - optics
KW - light energy
KW - beam splitting
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.143602
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.143602
M3 - Article
VL - 123
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
SN - 0031-9007
IS - 14
M1 - 143602
ER -