Coherent perfect absorbers for transient, periodic, or chaotic optical fields: Time-reversed lasers beyond threshold

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Longhi, Stefano ^a   Della Valle, Giuseppe ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC LASERS; CHAOTIC OPTICAL FIELDS; COHERENT OPTICAL FIELDS; DISCRETE FREQUENCIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS; LASER SYSTEMS; LASING MEDIUM; LASING MODES; LOSSY MEDIUM; OPTICAL CAVITIES; OPTICAL RADIATIONS; OPTICAL WAVES; PERFECT ABSORBER; TIME REVERSAL; TIME-REVERSED;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84861694236     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.053838     Document Type: Article

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