Nonlinear optical materials for the smart filtering of optical radiation

D Dini, MJF Calvete, M Hanack - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The control of luminous radiation has extremely important implications for modern and future
technologies as well as in medicine. In this Review, we detail chemical structures and their …

Colloquium: Momentum of an electromagnetic wave in dielectric media

RNC Pfeifer, TA Nieminen, NR Heckenberg… - Reviews of Modern …, 2007 - APS
Almost 100 years ago, two different expressions were proposed for the energy-momentum
tensor of an electromagnetic wave in a dielectric. Minkowski's tensor predicted an increase …

Negative refraction, gain and nonlinear effects in hyperbolic metamaterials

C Argyropoulos, NM Estakhri, F Monticone, A Alù - Optics Express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
The negative refraction and evanescent-wave canalization effects supported by a layered
metamaterial structure obtained by alternating dielectric and plasmonic layers is …

Photonic crystals

Q Gong, X Hu - Principles and Applications, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Photonic Crystals Page 1 Gong | Hu Photonic Crystals Qihuang Gong **aoyong Hu Page 2
PHOTONIC CRYSTALS Page 3 Page 4 Qihuang Gong | **aoyong Hu PHOTONIC …

Subwavelength discrete solitons in nonlinear metamaterials

Y Liu, G Bartal, DA Genov, X Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2007 - APS
We present the first study of subwavelength discrete solitons in nonlinear metamaterials:
nanoscaled periodic structures consisting of metal and nonlinear dielectric slabs. The …

A review on 1D photonic crystal based reflective optical limiters

R Gadhwal, P Kaushik, A Devi - Critical Reviews in Solid State and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
All-optical limiting devices are based on materials enabling light to control light, possessing
a nonlinear optical response, and are reviving their popularity. One-dimensional photonic …

Negative refraction and sub-wavelength focusing in the visible range using transparent metallo-dielectric stacks

M Scalora, G D'Aguanno, N Mattiucci, MJ Bloemer… - Optics …, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We numerically demonstrate negative refraction of the Poynting vector and sub-wavelength
focusing in the visible part of the spectrum using a transparent multilayer, metallo-dielectric …

Efficient modulation of photonic bandgap and defect modes in all‐dielectric photonic crystals by energetic ion Beams

G Du, X Zhou, C Pang, K Zhang, Y Zhao… - Advanced Optical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The photonic bandgap and localization in photonic crystals can be effectively modulated by
energetic ion beams owing to the induced modification of the thickness and refractive …

Reversal of wave momentum in isotropic left-handed media

BA Kemp, JA Kong, TM Grzegorczyk - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular …, 2007 - APS
The electromagnetic wave momentum is derived for a Lorentz medium and applied to study
the momentum transfer to stationary, isotropic left-handed materials. The model includes …

Nonlinear Duffing oscillator model for third harmonic generation

M Scalora, MA Vincenti, D de Ceglia, CM Cojocaru… - JOSA B, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We employ a classical, nonlinear Lorentz–Duffing oscillator model to predict third harmonic
conversion efficiencies in the ultrafast regime, from a variety of metal nanostructures …