2024/06/29 by Jeng Yi Lee, Irving Rondon, Lee, Jeng Yi +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Delta #Dirac (video compression format) #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics #Optics (physics.optics) #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Radiation #Superconducting and THz Device Technology
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.00282
openalex publication_date 2024/06/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We theoretically and numerically reveal that under a given level of extinction cross section and with definite angular momentum channels dominant, there exists a physical limitation for absorption cross section being maximum and scattering cross section being minimum. In addition, any scattering systems operated at this condition would be accompanied by a needle Dirac-delta-like far-field radiation pattern, reducing to perturb the background field except in the forward direction. We therefore refer to this outcome as dark superabsorbers. Moreover, by considering the mathematical Gibbs phenomenon, we find that a completely equivalent Dirac-delta far-field radiation is excluded even we could properly design the scatterers operated at such conditions. We believe this finding has potential applications in design of dark energy harvesting, lower-visibility receivers, superdirective light-matter interaction, and Fresnel diffractive imaging.