Hidden Black: Coherent Enhancement of Absorption in Strongly Scattering Media

作者:Chong Y D*; Stone A D
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2011, 107(16): 163901.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.163901

摘要

We show that a weakly absorbing, strongly scattering (white) medium can be made very strongly absorbing at any frequency within its strong-scattering bandwidth by optimizing the input electromagnetic field. For uniform absorption, results from random matrix theory imply that the reflectivity of the medium can be suppressed by a factor similar to(l(a)/l)N(-2), where N is the number of incident channels and l, l(a) are the elastic and absorption mean free paths, respectively. It is thus possible to increase absorption from a few percent to >99%. For a localized weak absorber buried in a nonabsorbing scattering medium, we find a large but bounded enhancement.

  • 出版日期2011-10-12