Dynamical Control of Broadband Coherent Absorption in ENZ Films

Bruno, Vincenzo; Vezzoli, Stefano; DeVault, Clayton; Roger, Thomas; Ferrera, Marcello; Boltasseva, Alexandra; Shalaev, Vladimir M.; Faccio, Daniele

doi:10.3390/mi11010110

Dynamical Control of Broadband Coherent Absorption in ENZ Films

Journal Article · Mon Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Micromachines

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/mi11010110· OSTI ID:1803152

^[1]; Vezzoli, Stefano ^[2]; DeVault, Clayton ^[3]; Roger, Thomas ^[4]; Ferrera, Marcello ^[4]; Boltasseva, Alexandra ^[5]; Shalaev, Vladimir M. ^[5]; Faccio, Daniele ^[6]

Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom). School of Physics and Astronomy; OSTI
Imperial College, London (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics. The Blackett Lab.
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute; Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Birck Nanotechnology Center. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, Scotland (United Kingdom). Inst. of Photonics and Quantum Sciences
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute; Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States). Birck Nanotechnology Center. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom). School of Physics and Astronomy

Interferometric effects between two counter-propagating beams incident on an optical system can lead to a coherent modulation of the absorption of the total electromagnetic radiation with 100% efficiency even in deeply subwavelength structures. Coherent perfect absorption (CPA) rises from a resonant solution of the scattering matrix and often requires engineered optical properties. For instance, thin film CPA benefits from complex nanostructures with suitable resonance, albeit at a loss of operational bandwidth. In this work, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate a broadband CPA based on light-with-light modulation in epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) subwavelength films. We show that unpatterned ENZ films with different thicknesses exhibit broadband CPA with a near-unity maximum value located at the ENZ wavelength. By using Kerr optical nonlinearities, we dynamically tune the visibility and peak wavelength of the total energy modulation. Our results based on homogeneous thick ENZ media open a route towards on-chip devices that require efficient light absorption and dynamical tunability.

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Research Organization:: Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1803152

Journal Information:: Micromachines, Journal Name: Micromachines Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 11; ISSN 2072-666X

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