Parity-time symmetry and exceptional points [electromagnetic perspectives]

A Krasnok, N Nefedkin, A Alù - IEEE Antennas and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent developments in non-Hermitian physics offer exciting opportunities for a broad range
of basic research and engineering applications relevant to the antennas and propagation …

Exceptional points of degeneracy induced by linear time-periodic variation

H Kazemi, MY Nada, T Mealy, AF Abdelshafy… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We present a general theory of exceptional points of degeneracy (EPD) in periodically time-
variant systems. We show that even a single resonator with a time-periodic component is …

Highly sensitive coupled oscillator based on an exceptional point of degeneracy and nonlinearity

A Nikzamir, F Capolino - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
We propose a scheme to obtain highly sensitive oscillators in a coupled-resonator system
with an exceptional point of degeneracy (EPD) and a small instability. The oscillator with the …

Anomalies in light scattering: A circuit-model approach

D Trivedi, A Madanayake, A Krasnok - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
Photonics is crucial for communication and computing, as it involves controlling how light
scatters. Recent breakthroughs like bound states in the continuum (BICs) and parity-time …

Frozen mode in three-way periodic microstrip coupled waveguide

MY Nada, T Mealy, F Capolino - IEEE Microwave and Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that a simple periodic fully planar three-
way microstrip coupled waveguide exhibits a stationary inflection point (SIP). The SIP is a …

Generalized theory of PT-symmetric radio-frequency systems with divergent exceptional points

M Sakhdari, Z Ye, M Farhat… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emergence of exceptional point (EP) and its divergent form, so-called divergent EP
(DEP), in parity-time (PT)-symmetric trimer opens a new pathway for making radio frequency …

Experimental testing of a 3-D-printed metamaterial slow wave structure for high-power microwave generation

AB de Alleluia, AF Abdelshafy, P Ragulis… - … on Plasma Science, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A high-power-microwave (HPM) source consisting of a backward wave oscillator (BWO)
based on a metamaterial slow wave structure (MTM SWS) is investigated and tested. The …

Lasing at a stationary inflection point

A Herrero-Parareda, N Furman, T Mealy… - Optical Materials …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The concept of lasers based on the frozen mode regime in active periodic optical
waveguides with a 3rd-order exceptional point of degeneracy (EPD) is advanced. The …

Chiral terahertz lasing with Berry-curvature dipoles

A Hakimi, K Rouhi, TG Rappoport, MG Silveirinha… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Materials with Berry-curvature dipoles support a non-Hermitian electro-optic effect that is
investigated here for lasing at terahertz frequencies. Such a system is conceived here as a …

Exceptional points of degeneracy directly induced by space–time modulation of a single transmission line

K Rouhi, H Kazemi, A Figotin… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate how exceptional points of degeneracy (EPDs) are induced in a single
transmission line (TL) directly by applying periodic space–time modulation to the per-unit …