Experimental demonstration of a coherent perfect absorber with pt phase transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 14, 2014, Pages

  Sun, Yong ^a   Tan, Wei ^a,b   Li, Hong Qiang ^a   Li, Jensen ^c   Chen, Hong ^a  

^a Tongji University   (China)

^b BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; FLEXIBLE PLATFORMS; MAGNETIC RESPONSE; MICROWAVE TRANSMISSION LINE; PASSIVE MATERIALS; PASSIVE RESONATORS; PERFECT ABSORBER; SYMMETRIC PHASE;

OPTICS;

EID: 84898438627     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.143903     Document Type: Article

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