Photonic time crystals: a materials perspective

S Saha, O Segal, C Fruhling, E Lustig, M Segev… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Recent advances in ultrafast, large-modulation photonic materials have opened the door to
many new areas of research. One specific example is the exciting prospect of photonic time …

[HTML][HTML] Design for quality: reconfigurable flat optics based on active metasurfaces

MY Shalaginov, SD Campbell, S An, Y Zhang… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Optical metasurfaces, planar subwavelength nanoantenna arrays with the singular ability to
sculpt wavefront in almost arbitrary manners, are poised to become a powerful tool enabling …

A New Family of Ultralow Loss Reversible Phase‐Change Materials for Photonic Integrated Circuits: Sb2S3 and Sb2Se3

M Delaney, I Zeimpekis, D Lawson… - Advanced functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Phase‐change materials (PCMs) are seeing tremendous interest for their use in
reconfigurable photonic devices; however, the most common PCMs exhibit a large …

[HTML][HTML] Broadband transparent optical phase change materials for high-performance nonvolatile photonics

Y Zhang, JB Chou, J Li, H Li, Q Du, A Yadav… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs), a unique group of materials featuring
exceptional optical property contrast upon a solid-state phase transition, have found …

On the optical properties of thin‐film vanadium dioxide from the visible to the far infrared

C Wan, Z Zhang, D Woolf, CM Hessel… - Annalen der …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The insulator‐to‐metal transition (IMT) in vanadium dioxide (VO2) can enable a variety of
optics applications, including switching and modulation, optical limiting, and tuning of optical …

Optical phase change materials in integrated silicon photonic devices

KJ Miller, RF Haglund Jr, SM Weiss - Optical Materials Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs) are being explored for a variety of photonic
applications due to the extraordinarily large changes in optical properties that occur during …

Toward nonvolatile switching in silicon photonic devices

J Parra, I Olivares, A Brimont… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nonvolatile switching is still a missing functionality in current mainstream silicon photonics
complementary metal‐oxide‐semiconductor platforms. Fundamentally, nonvolatile switching …

Actively Tunable Metasurfaces via Plasmonic Nanogap Cavities with Sub-10-nm VO2 Films

AM Boyce, JW Stewart, J Avila, Q Shen, S Zhang… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Actively tunable optical materials integrated with engineered subwavelength structures
could enable novel optoelectronic devices, including reconfigurable light sources and …

Tunable and scalable broadband metamaterial absorber involving VO2-based phase transition

L Lei, F Lou, K Tao, H Huang, X Cheng, P Xu - Photonics Research, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Optical absorbers with dynamic tuning features are able to flexibly control the absorption
performance, which offers a good platform for realizing optical switching, filtering …

Reconfigurable Optical Physical Unclonable Functions Enabled by VO2 Nanocrystal Films

Z Gan, F Chen, Q Li, M Li, J Zhang, X Lu… - … Applied Materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Optical physical unclonable function (PUF) is one of the most promising hardware security
solutions, which has been proven to be resistant to machine learning attacks. However, the …