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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 2246-2254Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.002246
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- 973 Program of China [2011CB301800]
- Chinese Nature Science Grant [60825405, 61138002, 61177013]
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As highlighted by recent articles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 053901 (2010) and Science 331, 889-892 (2011)], the coherent control of narrowband perfect absorption in intrinsic silicon slab has attracted much attention. In this paper, we demonstrate that broadband coherent perfect absorber (CPA) can be achieved by heavily doping an ultrathin silicon film. Two distinct perfect absorption regimes are derived with extremely broad and moderately narrow bandwidth under symmetrical coherent illumination. The large enhancement of bandwidth may open up new avenues for broadband applications. Subsequently, interferometric method is used to control the absorption coherently with extremely large contrast between the maximum and minimum absorptance. Compared with the results in literatures, the thin film CPAs proposed here show much more flexibility in both operation frequency and bandwidth. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
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