TY - JOUR
T1 - The dawn of non-Hermitian optics
AU - El-Ganainy, Ramy
AU - Khajavikhan, Mercedeh
AU - Christodoulides, Demetrios N.
AU - Ozdemir, Sahin K.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - Recent years have seen a tremendous progress in the theory and experimental implementations of non-Hermitian photonics, including all-lossy optical systems as well as parity-time symmetric systems consisting of both optical loss and gain. This progress has led to a host of new intriguing results in the physics of light–matter interactions with promising potential applications in optical sciences and engineering. In this comment, we present a brief perspective on the developments in this field and discuss possible future research directions that can benefit from the notion of non-Hermitian engineering.
AB - Recent years have seen a tremendous progress in the theory and experimental implementations of non-Hermitian photonics, including all-lossy optical systems as well as parity-time symmetric systems consisting of both optical loss and gain. This progress has led to a host of new intriguing results in the physics of light–matter interactions with promising potential applications in optical sciences and engineering. In this comment, we present a brief perspective on the developments in this field and discuss possible future research directions that can benefit from the notion of non-Hermitian engineering.
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U2 - 10.1038/s42005-019-0130-z
DO - 10.1038/s42005-019-0130-z
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:85071146716
SN - 2399-3650
VL - 2
JO - Communications Physics
JF - Communications Physics
IS - 1
M1 - 37
ER -