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Coherent perfect absorption and reflection in slow-light waveguides

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arxiv 1309.3627 v1 pith:QYJHEC2L submitted 2013-09-14 physics.optics

Coherent perfect absorption and reflection in slow-light waveguides

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keywords absorptionperfectreflectioncoherentslow-lightwavewaveguidesabsorptivity
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We identify a family of unusual slow-light modes occurring in lossy multi-mode grating waveguides, for which either the forward or backward mode components, or both, become degenerate. In the fully-degenerate case, by varying the wave amplitudes in a uniform input waveguide, one can modulate between coherent perfect absorption (zero reflection) and perfect reflection. The perfectly-absorbed wave has anomalously short absorption length, scaling as the inverse 1/3 power of the absorptivity.

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