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 …

Nonlinear optical effects in epsilon-near-zero media

O Reshef, I De Leon, MZ Alam, RW Boyd - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Efficient nonlinear optical interactions are essential for many applications in modern
photonics. However, they typically require intense laser sources and long interaction …

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 …

Nonlinear optics at epsilon near zero: From origins to new materials

D Fomra, A Ball, S Saha, J Wu, M Sojib… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In the continuously evolving realm of nonlinear optics, epsilon near zero (ENZ) materials
have captured significant scientific interest, becoming a compelling focal point over the past …

Transparent conducting oxides: from all-dielectric plasmonics to a new paradigm in integrated photonics

W Jaffray, S Saha, VM Shalaev… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
During the past few years, the optics and photonics communities have renewed their
attention toward transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), which for over two decades have …

Saturable time-varying mirror based on an epsilon-near-zero material

R Tirole, E Galiffi, J Dranczewski, T Attavar… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We report a switchable time-varying mirror, composed of an indium-tin-oxide–gold bilayer,
displaying a tenfold modulation of reflectivity (Δ R≈ 0.6), which saturates for a driving-pump …

Adiabatic frequency shifting in epsilon-near-zero materials: the role of group velocity

JB Khurgin, M Clerici, V Bruno, L Caspani, C DeVault… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The conversion of a photon's frequency has long been a key application area of nonlinear
optics. It has been discussed how a slow temporal variation of a material's refractive index …

Absorptive loss and band non-parabolicity as a physical origin of large nonlinearity in epsilon-near-zero materials

R Secondo, J Khurgin, N Kinsey - Optical Materials Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
For decades, nonlinear optics has been used to control the frequency and propagation of
light in unique ways enabling a wide range of applications such as ultrafast lasing, sub …

Negative refraction in time-varying strongly coupled plasmonic-antenna–epsilon-near-zero systems

V Bruno, C DeVault, S Vezzoli, Z Kudyshev, T Huq… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Time-varying metasurfaces are emerging as a powerful instrument for the dynamical control
of the electromagnetic properties of a propagating wave. Here we demonstrate an efficient …

Principles to tailor the saturable and reverse saturable absorption of epsilon-near-zero material

H Ma, Y Zhao, Y Shao, Y Lian, W Zhang, G Hu… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Indium tin oxide (ITO) films have recently emerged as a new class of functional materials for
nonlinear optical (NLO) devices due to their exotic properties around epsilon-near-zero …