Dual-Color Coherent Perfect Absorber

Boyi Xue; Jintian Lin; Jiankun Hou; Yicheng Zhu; Ruixin Ma; Xianfeng Chen; Ya Cheng; Li Ge; Wenjie Wan

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.013802

Dual-Color Coherent Perfect Absorber

Boyi Xue
, Jintian Lin
, Jiankun Hou
, Yicheng Zhu
, Ruixin Ma
, Xianfeng Chen
, Ya Cheng^*
, Li Ge^*
, Wenjie Wan^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
CAS - Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics
East China Normal University
City University of New York

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Abstract

Perfect absorption of light critically affects light-matter interaction for various applications. Coherent perfect absorbers (CPAs) gain the unique capability of controlling light with light in a linear fashion. Multicolor CPAs [S. Longhi, Time-reversed optical parametric oscillation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 033901 (2011)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.107.033901] are highly desirable for broadband and nonlinear light-to-light coherent control but the experimental demonstration has still remained elusive. Here, for the first time, we experimentally observe a dual-color version of a CPA (DC-CPA) through a second harmonic generation in a single whispering-gallery-mode microcavity. The DC-CPA enables simultaneous perfect absorption of both the incoming fundamental wave and its second harmonic. Similar to its linear counterpart, coherent control in the DC-CPA can also be realized by tuning the relative phase and intensity between the two-colored waves through nonlinear interference instead of the linear one. This scheme breaks the linear boundary of the traditional CPA into a multifrequency domain and paves the way toward all-optical signal processing and quantum information.

Original language	English
Article number	013802
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	134
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.013802
State	Published - 10 Jan 2025
Externally published	Yes

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