Dispersive non-Hermitian optical heterostructures

作者:Shramkova O V*; Makris K G; Christodoulides D N; Tsironis G P
来源:Photonics Research, 2018, 6(4): A1-A5.
DOI:10.1364/PRJ.6.0000A1

摘要

The effect of material dispersion on the optical properties of one-dimensional non-Hermitian scattering systems is investigated in detail. In particular, multilayer heterostructures with gain and loss (parity-time symmetric or not) are examined by taking into account the dispersion of each layer. The exceptional points and phase transitions are characterized based on the spectrum of the corresponding scattering matrix. We demonstrate that an on-average lossy heterostructure can amplify an incident plane wave in the frequency range associated with the emission frequency of the layer with gain.

  • 出版日期2018-4-1