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 …

Theory and applications of photonic time crystals: a tutorial

MM Asgari, P Garg, X Wang, MS Mirmoosa… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
This tutorial offers a comprehensive overview of photonic time crystals: artificial materials
whose electromagnetic properties are periodically modulated in time at scales comparable …

Broadband nonreciprocal amplification in luminal metamaterials

E Galiffi, PA Huidobro, JB Pendry - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Time has emerged as a new degree of freedom for metamaterials, promising new pathways
in wave control. However, electromagnetism suffers from limitations in the modulation speed …

Wood anomalies and surface-wave excitation with a time grating

E Galiffi, YT Wang, Z Lim, JB Pendry, A Alù… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
In order to confine waves beyond the diffraction limit, advances in fabrication techniques
have enabled subwavelength structuring of matter, achieving near-field control of light and …

Efficient phase conjugation in a space-time leaky waveguide

S Yin, A Alù - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Temporal interfaces, arising when the electromagnetic properties of a medium are abruptly
switched in time, have been recently raising interest as the dual of spatial interfaces. Their …

Controlling surface waves with temporal discontinuities of metasurfaces

X Wang, MS Mirmoosa, SA Tretyakov - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
Static reactive metasurfaces allow excitation and propagation of surface waves. In this
paper, we theoretically elucidate how surface-wave propagation along a reactive boundary …

[HTML][HTML] Time-dependent high-contrast subwavelength resonators

H Ammari, EO Hiltunen - Journal of Computational Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
In the field of metamaterials, many intriguing phenomena arise from having a structure which
is periodic in space. In time-dependent structures, conceptually similar properties can arise …

Graphene plasmonic time crystals

KH Kim, KH O - physica status solidi (RRL)–Rapid Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of photonic crystals has recently been extended to the time domain and
attracted great interest. Unfortunately, realizing photonic time crystals is a challenging task …

Temporal scattering of a graphene plasmon by a rapid carrier density decrease

AV Maslov, MI Bakunov - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Recently, the temporal control of graphene carrier density has emerged as a viable means
to create various frequency shifting, modulation, and sensing photonic devices. Here we …

Nonreciprocal wave propagation in space-time modulated media

H Ammari, J Cao, EO Hiltunen - Multiscale Modeling & Simulation, 2022 - SIAM
We show the possibility of achieving nonreciprocal wave propagation in space-time
modulated media and give an asymptotic analysis of the nonreciprocity property in terms of …