Non-resonant exceptional points as enablers of noise-resilient sensors

W Tuxbury, R Kononchuk, T Kottos - Communications Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional point degeneracies (EPDs) in the resonant spectrum of non-Hermitian systems
have been recently employed for sensing due to the sublinear response of the resonance …

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 …

Exceptional-point degeneracy as a desirable operation point for an oscillator array with discrete nonlinear gain and radiative elements

A Nikzamir, F Capolino - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
We show that an oscillator array prefers to operate at an exceptional point of degeneracy
(EPD) occurring in a waveguide periodically loaded with discrete nonlinear gain and …

Unidirectional amplification in the frozen mode regime enabled by a nonlinear defect

S Landers, W Tuxbury, I Vitebskiy, T Kottos - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
A stationary inflection point (SIP) is a spectral singularity of the Bloch dispersion relation ω
(k) of a periodic structure where the first and the second derivatives of ω with respect to k …

Third-order exceptional points and frozen modes in planar elastic laminates

A Fishman, G Elbaz, TV Varma, G Shmuel - Journal of the Mechanics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Exceptional points (EPs) are degeneracies of two or more natural modes of open systems,
which lead to unusual wave phenomena. Despite the robustness against imperfections of …

Unidirectional Amplification in the Frozen Mode Regime Enabled by a Nonlinear

S Landers, W Tuxbury, I Vitebskiy, T Kottos - 2024 - opg.optica.org
ABSTRACT A stationary inflection point (SIP) is a spectral singularity of the Bloch dispersion
relation 𝝎 (𝒌) of a periodic structure where the first and the second derivatives of 𝝎 with …

Nonlinear wavepacket dynamics in proximity to a stationary inflection point

S Landers, A Kurnosov, W Tuxbury, I Vitebskiy, T Kottos - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
A stationary inflection point (SIP) in the Bloch dispersion relation of a periodic waveguide is
an exceptional point degeneracy where three Bloch eigenmodes coalesce, forming the so …