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<div class="csl-entry">Rotter, S. (2026, March 27). <i>Coherent perfect absorption, transmission and emission of light</i> [Presentation]. Bath Physics Department Colloquium, Bath, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the).</div>
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In my talk I will present three recent works focused on the perfect absorption, transmission and emission of radiation by interferometric wave engineering. In the first case, we demonstrate that even a weakly absorbing film can be turned into a “coherent perfect absorber” by building a degenerate cavity around it [1]. This special cavity perfectly couples incoming light fields with arbitrary wavefronts into the absorber – even for the case that light is a dynamically varying speckle pattern. In the second case, we demonstrate how to construct an anti-reflection structure for a complex scattering system like a disordered medium [2]. Similar to an anti-reflection coating for conventional eye-glasses, this structure leads to perfect transmission across a strongly scattering system by perfectly suppressing any back-scattering. As I will demonstrate in the last part of my talk, these effects have a topological origin, which can be used to engineer topologically protected thermal radiation [3].
[1] Y. Slobodkin, G. Weinberg, H. Hörner, K. Pichler, S. Rotter, and O. Katz, Science 377, 995 (2022)
[2] M. Horodynski, M. Kühmayer, C. Ferise, S. Rotter, and M. Davy, Nature 607, 281 (2022)
[3] M. S. Ergoktas, A. Kecebas, K. Despotelis, S. Soleymani, G. Bakan, A. Kocabas, A. Principi, S. Rotter, S. K. Özdemir, and C. Kocabas, Science 384, 1122 (2024)
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FWF - Österr. Wissenschaftsfonds
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Coherent perfect absorption
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Scattering matrix
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Topological Photonics
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Coherent perfect absorption, transmission and emission of light
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Presentation
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Vortrag
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PIN7240924
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Presentation
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invited
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Metastrukturen für die Wellenkontrolle in komplexen Medien
