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 …

Amplified emission and lasing in photonic time crystals

M Lyubarov, Y Lumer, A Dikopoltsev, E Lustig… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Photonic time crystals (PTCs), materials with a dielectric permittivity that is modulated
periodically in time, offer new concepts in light manipulation. We study theoretically the …

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 …

Roadmap on electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces

TJ Cui, S Zhang, A Alù, M Wegener… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
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Photonic time-crystals-fundamental concepts

E Lustig, O Segal, S Saha, C Fruhling, VM Shalaev… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Photonic Time-Crystals (PTCs) are materials in which the refractive index varies periodically
and abruptly in time. This medium exhibits unusual properties such as momentum bands …

Time-refraction optics with single cycle modulation

E Lustig, O Segal, S Saha, E Bordo, SN Chowdhury… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
We present an experimental study of optical time-refraction caused by time-interfaces as
short as a single optical cycle. Specifically, we study the propagation of a probe pulse …

Time-varying electromagnetic media: opinion

V Pacheco-Peña, D M. Solís, N Engheta - Optical Materials Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In this opinion article, we briefly summarize some of the background materials and recent
developments in the field of temporal and spatiotemporal media and provide our opinion on …

Spatiotemporal photonic crystals

Y Sharabi, A Dikopoltsev, E Lustig, Y Lumer, M Segev - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We study light propagation in spatiotemporal photonic crystals: dielectric media that vary
periodically in both space and time. While photonic crystals (spatially periodic media) are …

Nonreciprocity and Faraday rotation at time interfaces

H Li, S Yin, A Alù - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Nonreciprocity is critically important in modern wave technologies, yet its general principles
and practical implementations continue to raise intense research interest, in particular in the …