Spectral singularities in the TE and TM modes of a PT-symmetric slab system: optimal conditions for realizing a CPA-laser

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2016.09.008MaRDI QIDQ1689633zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ali Mostafazadeh, Mustafa Sarisaman

Publication date 17 January 2018

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00412

zbMATH Keywords

spectral singularitycoherent perfect absorption\(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetryCPA-laserlaser threshold condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60)

Abstract: Among the interesting outcomes of the study of the physical applications of spectral singularities in PT-symmetric optical systems is the discovery of CPA-lasers. These are devices that act both as a threshold laser and a coherent perfect absorber (CPA) for the same values of their physical parameters. Unlike a homogeneous slab that is made to act as a CPA, a slab CPA-laser would absorb the incident waves coming from the left and right of the device provided that they have appropriate intensity and phase contrasts. We provide a comprehensive study of one of the simplest experimentally accessible examples of a CPA-laser, namely a PT-symmetric optical slab system consisting of a balanced pair of adjacent or separated gain and loss components. In particular, we give a closed form expression describing the spectral singularities of the system which correspond to its CPA-laser configurations. We determine the intensity and phase contrasts for the TE and TM waves that are emitted (absorbed) whenever the slab acts as a laser (CPA). We also investigate the behavior of the time-averaged energy density and Poynting vector for these waves. This is necessary for determining the optimal values of the physical parameters of the system that make it act as a CPA-laser. These turn out to correspond to situations where the separation distance $s$ between the gain and loss layers is an odd multiple of a characteristic length scale $s_0$. A curious by-product of our study is that, except for the cases where $s$ is an even integer multiple of $s_0$, there is a critical angle of polarization beyond which the energy of the waves emitted from the lossy layer can be larger than the energy of those emitted from the gain layer.

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