Coherent perfect absorption of path entangled single photons. Academic Article

abstract

• We examine the question of coherent perfect absorption (CPA) of single photons, and more generally, of the quantum fields by a macroscopic medium. We show the CPA of path entangled single photons in a Fabry-Perot interferometer containing an absorptive medium. The frequency of perfect absorption can be controlled by changing the interferometer parameters like the reflectivity and the complex dielectric constant of the material. We exhibit similar results for path entangled photons in micro-ring resonators. For entangled fields like the ones produced by a down converter the CPA aspect is evident in phase sensitive detection schemes such as in measurements of the squeezing spectrum.

authors

• Agarwal, Girish

published proceedings

• Opt Express

author list (cited authors)

• Huang, S., & Agarwal, G. S.

citation count

• 27

complete list of authors

• Huang, Sumei||Agarwal, GS

publication date

• August 2014

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Express  Journal

keywords

• 0205 Optical Physics

PubMed Central ID

• 25321294

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/OE.22.020936

start page

• 20936

end page

• 20947

volume

• 22

issue

• 17