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 …

Spatiotemporal light control with active metasurfaces

AM Shaltout, VM Shalaev, ML Brongersma - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Metasurfaces have opened up a number of remarkable new approaches to
manipulate light. These flat optical elements are constructed from a dense array of strongly …

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 …

Recent advances in tunable metasurfaces: materials, design, and applications

OAM Abdelraouf, Z Wang, H Liu, Z Dong, Q Wang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Metasurfaces, a two-dimensional (2D) form of metamaterials constituted by planar meta-
atoms, exhibit exotic abilities to tailor electromagnetic (EM) waves freely. Over the past …

Active optical metasurfaces: comprehensive review on physics, mechanisms, and prospective applications

J Yang, S Gurung, S Bej, P Ni… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical metasurfaces with subwavelength thickness hold considerable promise for future
advances in fundamental optics and novel optical applications due to their unprecedented …

Broadband frequency translation through time refraction in an epsilon-near-zero material

Y Zhou, MZ Alam, M Karimi, J Upham, O Reshef… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Space-time duality in paraxial optical wave propagation implies the existence of
intriguing effects when light interacts with a material exhibiting two refractive indexes …

[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 …

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 …

Nonreciprocal metasurface with space–time phase modulation

X Guo, Y Ding, Y Duan, X Ni - Light: Science & Applications, 2019 - nature.com
Creating materials with time-variant properties is critical for breaking reciprocity that imposes
fundamental limitations on wave propagation. However, it is challenging to realize efficient …

Tunable metasurfaces based on active materials

T Cui, B Bai, HB Sun - Advanced Functional Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metasurfaces, planer artificial materials composed of subwavelength unit cells, have shown
superior abilities to manipulate the wavefronts of electromagnetic waves. In the last few …