Photonics Research, 2018, 6 (4): 040000A1, Published Online: Jul. 10, 2018
Dispersive non-Hermitian optical heterostructures
Abstract
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.
O. V. Shramkova, K. G. Makris, D. N. Christodoulides, G. P. Tsironis. Dispersive non-Hermitian optical heterostructures[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(4): 040000A1.