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 …

Near-zero-index materials for photonics

N Kinsey, C DeVault, A Boltasseva… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Epsilon‐near‐zero photonics: a new platform for integrated devices

X Niu, X Hu, S Chu, Q Gong - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ) photonics is the study of light–matter interactions in the
presence of structures with near‐zero permittivity and has been emerging as an important …

Colloquium: Nonlinear metamaterials

M Lapine, IV Shadrivov, YS Kivshar - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2014 - APS
This Colloquium presents an overview of the research on nonlinear electromagnetic
metamaterials. The developed theoretical approaches and experimental designs are …

Theory of epsilon-near-zero modes in ultrathin films

S Campione, I Brener, F Marquier - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
The physics of the epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) mode, which is supported by a nanolayer at the
frequency where the dielectric permittivity vanishes, has recently been a subject of debate …

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 …

Hierarchically doped plasmonic nanocrystal metamaterials

K Kim, ZM Sherman, A Cleri, WJ Chang, JP Maria… - Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Assembling plasmonic nanocrystals in regular superlattices can produce effective optical
properties not found in homogeneous materials. However, the range of these metamaterial …

Enhanced third harmonic generation from the epsilon-near-zero modes of ultrathin films

TS Luk, D De Ceglia, S Liu, GA Keeler… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally demonstrate efficient third harmonic generation from an indium tin oxide
nanofilm (λ/42 thick) on a glass substrate for a pump wavelength of 1.4 μm. A conversion …

Optical time reversal from time-dependent epsilon-near-zero media

S Vezzoli, V Bruno, C DeVault, T Roger, VM Shalaev… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Materials with a spatially uniform but temporally varying optical response have applications
ranging from magnetic field-free optical isolators to fundamental studies of quantum field …

Gigahertz speed operation of epsilon-near-zero silicon photonic modulators

MG Wood, S Campione, S Parameswaran, TS Luk… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optical communication systems increasingly require electro-optical modulators that deliver
high modulation speeds across a large optical bandwidth with a small device footprint and a …