New horizons in near-zero refractive index photonics and hyperbolic metamaterials

M Lobet, N Kinsey, I Liberal, H Caglayan… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The engineering of the spatial and temporal properties of both the electric permittivity and
the refractive index of materials is at the core of photonics. When vanishing to zero, those …

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 …

[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 …

Review on the scientific and technological breakthroughs in thermal emission engineering

JE Vázquez-Lozano, I Liberal - ACS Applied Optical Materials, 2024 - ACS Publications
The emission of thermal radiation is a physical process of fundamental and technological
interest. From different approaches, thermal radiation can be regarded as one of the basic …

Incandescent temporal metamaterials

JE Vázquez-Lozano, I Liberal - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Regarded as a promising alternative to spatially sha** matter, time-varying media can be
seized to control and manipulate wave phenomena, including thermal radiation. Here …

Second harmonic generation at a time-varying interface

R Tirole, S Vezzoli, D Saxena, S Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Time-varying metamaterials rely on large and fast changes of the linear permittivity. Beyond
the linear terms, however, the effect of a non-perturbative modulation of the medium on …

Enhanced Nonlinearity of Epsilon‐Near‐Zero Indium Tin Oxide Nanolayers with Tamm Plasmon‐Polariton States

T Shubitidze, WA Britton… - Advanced Optical Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, materials with vanishingly small permittivity, known as epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ)
media, emerged as promising candidates to achieve nonlinear optical effects of …

Spatiotemporal symmetries and energy-momentum conservation in uniform spacetime metamaterials

I Liberal, A Ganfornina-Andrades… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Spacetime metamaterials are opening new regimes of light–matter interactions based on the
breaking of temporal and spatial symmetries, as well as intriguing concepts associated with …

Electronic-based model of the optical nonlinearity of low-electron-density Drude materials

IW Un, S Sarkar, Y Sivan - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
Low-electron-density Drude (LEDD) materials such as indium tin oxide (ITO) are receiving
considerable attention for their combination of CMOS compatibility, unique epsilon-near …

Eigenpulses of dispersive time-varying media

SAR Horsley, E Galiffi, YT Wang - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We develop a compact theory that can be applied to a variety of time-varying dispersive
materials. The continuous-wave reflection and transmission coefficients are replaced with …