Photonic devices play an increasingly important role in advancing physics and engineering.
Although improvements in nanofabrication and computational methods have driven …

Slow light with a remarkably low group velocity is a promising solution for buffering and time-
domain processing of optical signals. It also offers the possibility for spatial compression of …

A new class of composite materials has emerged which provides a means to control and
manipulate light. These materials, known as photonic crystals, are periodic arrays of …

The light-matter interaction has been at the heart of major advances from the atomic scale
right to the microscopic scale over the past four decades. Confinement by light, embodied by …

Thouless charge pumping protocols provide a route for one-dimensional systems to realize
topological transport. Here, using arrays of evanescently coupled optical waveguides, we …

We demonstrate that optomechanical devices can exhibit nonreciprocal behavior when the
dominant light-matter interaction takes place via a linear momentum exchange between light …

Stimulated Brillouin interaction between sound and light, known to be the strongest optical
nonlinearity common to all amorphous and crystalline dielectrics, has been widely studied in …

One of the Top Selling Physics Books according to YBP Library Services The exotic effects
of slow light have been widely observed in the laboratory. However, current literature fails to …

The ability to slow down and delay optical pulses is an intriguing physical phenomenon with
significant applications, such as in telecommunications. It is essential for these applications …

Strongly influenced by the advances in the semiconductor industry, the miniaturization and
integration of optical circuits into smaller devices has stimulated considerable research …