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 …

Floquet metamaterials

S Yin, E Galiffi, A Alù - ELight, 2022 - Springer
Recent progress in nanophotonics and material science has inspired a strong interest in
optically-induced material dynamics, opening new research directions in the distinct fields of …

Observation of temporal reflection and broadband frequency translation at photonic time interfaces

H Moussa, G Xu, S Yin, E Galiffi, Y Ra'di, A Alù - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Time reflection is a uniform inversion of the temporal evolution of a signal, which arises
when an abrupt change in the properties of the host material occurs uniformly in space. At …

Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies

R Tirole, S Vezzoli, E Galiffi, I Robertson, D Maurice… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Double-slit experiments—where a wave is transmitted through a thin double aperture in
space—have confirmed the wave–particle duality of quantum objects, such as single …

Polariton panorama

DN Basov, A Asenjo-Garcia, PJ Schuck, X Zhu… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
In this brief review, we summarize and elaborate on some of the nomenclature of polaritonic
phenomena and systems as they appear in the literature on quantum materials and …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

Disordered photonic time crystals

Y Sharabi, E Lustig, M Segev - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in disordered photonic time crystals:
spatially homogenous media whose refractive index changes randomly in time. We find that …

Epsilon-near-zero photonics: infinite potentials

J Wu, ZT **e, Y Sha, HY Fu, Q Li - Photonics Research, 2021 - opg.optica.org
With its unique and exclusive linear and nonlinear optical characteristics, epsilon-near-zero
(ENZ) photonics has drawn a tremendous amount of attention in the recent decade in the …

Light emission by free electrons in photonic time-crystals

A Dikopoltsev, Y Sharabi, M Lyubarov… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Photonic time-crystals (PTCs) are spatially homogeneous media whose electromagnetic
susceptibility varies periodically in time, causing temporal reflections and refractions for any …

Post-2000 nonlinear optical materials and measurements: data tables and best practices

N Vermeulen, D Espinosa, A Ball… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially
over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and …