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Optical systems breaking Lorentz reciprocity have attracted broad attention due to their intriguing physics and applications. Nonreciprocal metasurfaces can enable one-way light transmission and reflection with essential applications in…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-26 Zheng Yang , Wanyue Xiao , Hengzhi Li , Hao Pan , Shubo Wang

Periodically time-varying media, known as photonic time crystals (PTCs), provide a promising platform for observing unconventional wave phenomena. We analyze the scattering of electromagnetic waves from spatially finite PTCs using the…

We analytically and numerically study the nonreciprocal surface waves guided by a magnetized metasurface tube. When applying the magnetic bias perpendicularly to the cylinder axis, the conductivity profile cross-section is nonuniform, which…

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We develop a theoretical framework for time-modulated acoustic metasurfaces comprising a line array of modulated cavities, and show that bound acoustic surface waves can undergo temporal diffraction from bound states localised at an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 E. Paul , G. J. Chaplain , J. Li , T. A. Starkey , S. A. R. Horsley

We explore the unconventional wave scattering properties of non-Hermitian systems in which amplification or damping are induced by time-periodic modulation. These non- Hermitian time-Floquet systems are capable of non-reciprocal operations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Theodoros T. Koutserimpas , Romain Fleury

With their self-tuned time-varying responses, waveform-selective metasurfaces embedded with nonlinear electronics have shown fascinating applications, including distinguishing different electromagnetic waves depending on the pulse width.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Ashif Aminulloh Fathnan , Haruki Homma , Shinya Sugiura , Hiroki Wakatsuchi

Spatiotemporal modulation approaches have been often employed as alternatives for producing optical non-reciprocity without magneto-optic materials. Unidirectional inter-modal scattering, enabled by either acousto-optic or electro-optic…

Using a dipole interaction model, we derive generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) for electromagnetic fields at the surface of a metascreen consisting of an array of arbitrarily shaped apertures in a perfectly conducting screen of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Edward F. Kuester , Enbo Liu , Nick J. Krull

While metasurfaces (MSs) are constructed from deeply-subwavelength unit cells, they are generally electrically large and full-wave simulations of the complete structure are computationally expensive. Thus, to reduce this high computational…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-08-16 Ville Tiukuvaara , Tom. J. Smy , Karim Achouri , Shulabh Gupta

Waveguides subject to spatiotemporal modulations are known to exhibit nonreciprocal vibration transmission, whereby interchanging the locations of the source and receiver change the end-to-end transmission characteristics. The scenario of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Jiuda Wu , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

We investigate symmetry-selective surface-mode excitation in a general periodically time-modulated double-layer system, where the modulation of the two layers has a constant phase difference. By deriving a semi-analytic trans-fer matrix…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-25 Ya-Wen Tsai , Yao-Ting Wang , Emanuele Galiffi , Andrea Alù , Ta-Jen Yen

Acoustic and elastic metamaterials with time- and space-dependent material properties have received great attention recently as a means to break reciprocity for propagating mechanical waves, achieving greater directional control. One…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 Benjamin M. Goldsberry , Samuel P. Wallen , Michael R. Haberman

Recently we derived generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) for electromagnetic fields at the surface of a metascreen (a metasurface with a ``fishnet'' structure, i.~e., a periodic array of arbitrary spaced apertures in a relatively…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-26 Christopher L. Holloway , Edward F. Kuester , Abdulaziz H. Haddab

The engineering of the optical properties of materials in space and time is opening further directions and possibilities to control wave propagation in four dimensions (x,y,z,t). A key example of such modulations are time interfaces where…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-14 Andrew M. Naylor , Victor Pacheco-Peña

A generalized dispersion equation is derived featuring coupled mode theory, parity-time symmetry, and leaky wave antennas of arbitrary periodic modulation. It can be specialized to each of these cases individually or can describe a…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-07 Afshin Abbaszadeh , Jordan Budhu

Temporal modulation unlocks possibilities to dynamically control and modify the response of electromagnetic systems. Employing explicit dependencies of circuit or surface parameters on time enables the engineering of systems with…

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This paper theoretically proposes a multichannel functional metasurface computer characterized by Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions (GSTCs) and surface susceptibility tensors. The study explores a polarization- and angle-multiplexed…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ali Momeni , Hamid Rajabalipanah , Ali Abdolali , Karim Achouri

A modeling of metasurfaces in the finite element method (FEM) based on generalized sheet transition conditions (GSTCs) is presented. The discontinuities in electromagnetic fields across a metasurface as represented by the GSTC are modeled…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Srikumar Sandeep , Jian Ming Jin , Christophe Caloz

We show that there exists an exact solution for a lossless and reciprocal periodic surface impedance which ensures full conversion of a single-mode surface wave propagating along the impedance boundary to a single plane wave propagating…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Svetlana N. Tcvetkova , Stefano Maci , Sergei A. Tretyakov