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 …

Photonic time crystals: a materials perspective

S Saha, O Segal, C Fruhling, E Lustig, M Segev… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Recent advances in ultrafast, large-modulation photonic materials have opened the door to
many new areas of research. One specific example is the exciting prospect of photonic time …

Nonlinear optics at epsilon near zero: From origins to new materials

D Fomra, A Ball, S Saha, J Wu, M Sojib… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In the continuously evolving realm of nonlinear optics, epsilon near zero (ENZ) materials
have captured significant scientific interest, becoming a compelling focal point over the past …

Transparent conducting oxides: from all-dielectric plasmonics to a new paradigm in integrated photonics

W Jaffray, S Saha, VM Shalaev… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
During the past few years, the optics and photonics communities have renewed their
attention toward transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), which for over two decades have …

Saturable time-varying mirror based on an epsilon-near-zero material

R Tirole, E Galiffi, J Dranczewski, T Attavar… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We report a switchable time-varying mirror, composed of an indium-tin-oxide–gold bilayer,
displaying a tenfold modulation of reflectivity (Δ R≈ 0.6), which saturates for a driving-pump …

Adiabatic frequency conversion using a time-varying epsilon-near-zero metasurface

K Pang, MZ Alam, Y Zhou, C Liu, O Reshef… - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
A time-dependent change in the refractive index of a material leads to a change in the
frequency of an optical beam passing through that medium. Here, we experimentally …

Metasurface on integrated photonic platform: from mode converters to machine learning

Z Wang, Y **ao, K Liao, T Li, H Song, H Chen… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Integrated photonic circuits are created as a stable and small form factor analogue of fiber-
based optical systems, from wavelength-division multiplication transceivers to more recent …

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 …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Controlling surface waves with temporal discontinuities of metasurfaces

X Wang, MS Mirmoosa, SA Tretyakov - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
Static reactive metasurfaces allow excitation and propagation of surface waves. In this
paper, we theoretically elucidate how surface-wave propagation along a reactive boundary …