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A channel of perfect transmission

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New theoretical analysis predicts that the introduction of a carefully designed gain and loss profile into a scattering medium could enable the unperturbed flow of light with constant, uniform intensity.

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Figure 1: From strong backscattering to full transparency.

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  1. Department of Physics, the Jack and Pearl Resnick Institute for Advanced Technology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002, Israel

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  2. Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech CNRS UMR7587, 1 rue Jussieu, Paris cedex 05, 75238, France

    Patrick Sebbah

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Sebbah, P. A channel of perfect transmission. Nature Photon 11, 337–339 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.78

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