Coherent Injection of Light into an Absorbing Scattering Medium with a Microscopic Pore

Abstract

We demonstrate that interplay between absorption and scattering in a dielectric medium with a microscopic pore gives rise to eigenchannels concentrated in the pore. Such a circumvention of attenuation leads to high transmission. By exciting such eigenchannels in a disordered nanophotonic system with a wavefront shaping technique, we experimentally confirm enhanced injection at depths exceeding the limiting length scales set by scattering, absorption, and diffraction.

Department(s)

Physics

Research Center/Lab(s)

Center for High Performance Computing Research

Comments

Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) (DMR-1205223, DMR-1205307); Office of Naval Research (ONR) (N00014-13-1-0649); Directorate for Engineering (ENG) (ECCS-1509268); Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (FA9550-15-1-0517).

Keywords and Phrases

Optics; Optoelectronic devices, Absorbing-scattering medium; Absorption and scatterings; Dielectric medium; Eigen-channels; High transmission; Limiting lengths; Wave front shaping, Coherent scattering

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0146-9592; 1539-4794

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2018 Optical Society of America (OSA), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 May 2018

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