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Efficient General Waveform Catching by a cavity at an Absorbing Exceptional Point

Asaf Farhi, Wei Dai, Seunghwi Kim, Andrea Alù, A. Douglas Stone

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show that a cavity at an absorbing exceptional point captures additional temporal orders of any incoming waveform, resulting in efficient passive state transfer and photon detection.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2024.jw2a.143

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