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 …

Theory and applications of photonic time crystals: a tutorial

MM Asgari, P Garg, X Wang, MS Mirmoosa… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
This tutorial offers a comprehensive overview of photonic time crystals: artificial materials
whose electromagnetic properties are periodically modulated in time at scales comparable …

Temporal multilayer structures in discrete physical systems towards arbitrary-dimensional non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm interferences

Z Dong, X Wu, Y Yang, P Yu, X Chen, L Yuan - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Temporal modulation recently draws great attentions in wave manipulations, with which one
can introduce the concept of temporal multilayer structure, a temporal counterpart of spatially …

Temporal parity-time symmetry for extreme energy transformations

H Li, S Yin, E Galiffi, A Alù - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Temporal interfaces introduced by abrupt switching of the constitutive parameters of
unbounded media enable unusual wave phenomena. So far, their explorations have been …

Temporal refraction in an acoustic phononic lattice

BL Kim, C Chong, C Daraio - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
In this Letter, we present the first experimental demonstration of the temporal refraction of
acoustic waves in a phononic lattice. A step change in grounding stiffness results in a …

Accurate direction–of–arrival estimation method based on space–time modulated metasurface

X Fang, M Li, J Han, D Ramaccia… - … on Antennas and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A metasurface (MTS)-based direction of arrival (DoA) estimation method is presented. The
method exploits the properties of space–time modulated reflective metasurfaces to estimate …

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 …

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 …

Short-pulsed metamaterials

C Rizza, G Castaldi, V Galdi - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We study a class of temporal metamaterials characterized by time-varying dielectric
permittivity waveforms of duration much smaller than the characteristic wave-dynamical …

Exploiting space-time duality in the synthesis of impedance transformers via temporal metamaterials

G Castaldi, V Pacheco-Peña, M Moccia, N Engheta… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Multisection quarter-wave impedance transformers are widely applied in microwave
engineering and optics to attain impedance-matching networks and antireflection coatings …