Resonance energy transfer (RET), the transport of electronic energy from one atom or
molecule to another, has significant importance to a number of diverse areas of science …

The discovery, design and development of materials are critically linked to advances in
many areas of research, and optics is no exception. Recently, the spectral region in which …

Structured waves are ubiquitous for all areas of wave physics, both classical and quantum,
where the wavefields are inhomogeneous and cannot be approximated by a single plane …

In this work, near-zero-index material boundary properties have been exploited to achieve
new electromagnetic functionalities. The extraordinary guiding properties of a cylindrical …

Near-zero-index (NZI) supercoupling, the transmission of electromagnetic waves inside a
waveguide irrespective of its shape, is a counterintuitive wave effect that finds applications in …

Metamaterials with a refractive index of zero exhibit properties that are important for
integrated optics. Possessing an infinite effective wavelength and zero spatial phase …

Near‐zero‐index platforms arise as a new opportunity for light manipulation with boosting of
optical nonlinearities, transmission properties in waveguides, and constant phase …

We present a model describing the transmission of light through atomic media with a
vanishing index of refraction. Zero-index materials are of particular interest as the infinite …

Zero-index materials exhibit exotic optical properties that can be utilized for integrated-optics
applications. However, practical implementation requires compatibility with complementary …

Using 3D sonic crystals as acoustic higher‐order topological insulators (HOTIs), 2D surface
states described by spin‐1 Dirac equations at the interfaces between the two sonic crystals …