Photonics of time-varying media

E Galiffi, R Tirole, S Yin, H Li, S Vezzoli… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, due
to the synergy between the discovery of highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near …

Photonic time-crystals-fundamental concepts

E Lustig, O Segal, S Saha, C Fruhling, VM Shalaev… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Photonic Time-Crystals (PTCs) are materials in which the refractive index varies periodically
and abruptly in time. This medium exhibits unusual properties such as momentum bands …

Amplified emission and lasing in photonic time crystals

M Lyubarov, Y Lumer, A Dikopoltsev, E Lustig… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Photonic time crystals (PTCs), materials with a dielectric permittivity that is modulated
periodically in time, offer new concepts in light manipulation. We study theoretically the …

Metasurface-based realization of photonic time crystals

X Wang, MS Mirmoosa, VS Asadchy, C Rockstuhl… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Photonic time crystals are artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties are uniform
in space but periodically vary in time. The synthesis of these materials and experimental …

[HTML][HTML] Time-refraction optics with single cycle modulation

E Lustig, O Segal, S Saha, E Bordo, SN Chowdhury… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
We present an experimental study of optical time-refraction caused by time-interfaces as
short as a single optical cycle. Specifically, we study the propagation of a probe pulse …

ℏω versus ℏk : dispersion and energy constraints on time-varying photonic materials and time crystals

Z Hayran, JB Khurgin, F Monticone - Optical Materials Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Photonic time-varying systems have attracted significant attention owing to their rich physics
and potential opportunities for new and enhanced functionalities. In this context, the duality …

Temporal parity-time symmetry for extreme energy transformations

H Li, S Yin, E Galiffi, A Alù - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Temporal interfaces introduced by abrupt switching of the constitutive parameters of
unbounded media enable unusual wave phenomena. So far, their explorations have been …

Light emission by free electrons in photonic time-crystals

A Dikopoltsev, Y Sharabi, M Lyubarov… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Photonic time-crystals (PTCs) are spatially homogeneous media whose electromagnetic
susceptibility varies periodically in time, causing temporal reflections and refractions for any …

Transparent conducting oxides: from all-dielectric plasmonics to a new paradigm in integrated photonics

W Jaffray, S Saha, VM Shalaev… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
During the past few years, the optics and photonics communities have renewed their
attention toward transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), which for over two decades have …

Quantum time reflection and refraction of ultracold atoms

Z Dong, H Li, T Wan, Q Liang, Z Yang, B Yan - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
Time reflection and refraction are temporal analogies of the spatial boundary effects derived
from Fermat's principle. They occur when classical waves strike a time boundary where an …