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.2016.09.008zbMATH Open1378.78031arXiv1606.00412OpenAlexW4301670338MaRDI QIDQ1689633FDOQ1689633

Authors: Ali Mostafazadeh, Mustafa Sarisaman 

Publication date: 17 January 2018

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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