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Photonic time crystals (PTCs) are materials whose dielectric permittivity is periodically modulated in time, giving rise to bandgaps not in energy-as in conventional photonic crystals-but in momentum, known as k-gaps. These k-gaps enable…

Recently, new artificial material has been proposed to control an electromagnetic wave-metasurface, a two-dimensional metamaterial. Compared with a three-dimensional bulky metamaterial, this artificial plane material with sub-wavelength…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-12 Chong Sheng , Hui Liu , Shining Zhu

Metasurfaces are a key photonic platform to manipulate classical light using sub-wavelength structures with designer optical response. Static metasurfaces have recently entered the realm of quantum photonics, showing their ability to tailor…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-28 Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp , Abul K. Azad , Diego A. R. Dalvit

Exotic forms of wave control have been emerging by engineering matter in space and time. In this framework, temporal photonic interfaces, i.e., abrupt changes in the electromagnetic properties of a material, have been shown to induce…

Metamaterials are composed of periodic subwavelength metal/dielectric structures that resonantly couple to the electric and/or magnetic components of the incident electromagnetic fields, exhibiting properties that are not found in nature.…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-29 Hou-Tong Chen , Antoinette J Taylor , Nanfang Yu

Photonic Time Crystals (PTCs) provide a completely new platform exhibiting light wave amplification owing to periodically varying electromagnetic properties. The need to control this amplification is becoming increasingly important,…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-20 Snehashis Sadhukhan , Somnath Ghosh

Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, thanks to thesynergy between the discovery of novel, highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near-zero materials, and the questfor novel wave…

Time-varying metamaterials are artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties change over time. Similar to a spatial medium discontinuity, a sudden change in time of the metamaterial refractive index induces the generation of a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Davide Ramaccia , Alessandro Toscano , Filiberto Bilotti

Elastic metamaterials are man-made structures with properties that transcend naturally occurring materials. One predominant feature of elastic metamaterials is locally resonant bandgaps, i.e., frequency ranges at which wave propagation is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Hasan B. Al Ba'ba'a

The exciting discovery of topological condensed matter systems has lately triggered a search for their photonic analogs, motivated by the possibility of robust backscattering-immune light transport. However, topological photonic phases have…

We present circuit-loaded metasurfaces that behave differently in a passive manner even at the same frequency in accordance with the incoming waveform, specifically, its pulse width. Importantly, the time-varying waveform-selective…

Floquet time crystals, characterized by momentum gaps (k-gaps), have sparked intense interest across various branches of physics due to their intriguing dynamics and promising applications. Despite growing theoretical efforts, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Z. Liu , X. Zhu , Z. G. Zhang , W. M. Zhang , X. Chen , Y. Q. Yang , R. W. Peng , M. Wang , J. Li , H. W. Wu

Periodic driving of particles can create crystalline structures in their dynamics. Such systems can be used to study solid-state physics phenomena in the time domain. In addition, it is possible to realize photonic time crystals and to…

Photonic time crystals (PTCs) are spatially uniform media with periodic modulation in time, enabling momentum bandgaps and the parametric amplification of light. While their potential in optical systems is very promising, practical…

Energy conversion in a physical system requires time-translation invariance breaking according to Noether's theorem. Closely associated with this symmetry-conservation relation, the frequencies of electromagnetic waves are found to be…

Photonic time interfaces, as the temporal analogue of spatial interfaces between two media, consist of a rapid change of the electromagnetic properties of a material (such as permittivity {\epsilon}, and permeability {\mu}) while the wave…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-22 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

This paper presents space-time varying (STV) metasurfaces for simultaneously controlling the spatial and temporal spectra of electromagnetic waves. These metasurfaces transform incident electromagnetic waves into specified reflected and…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-02 Nima Chamanara , Yousef Vahabzadeh , Christophe Caloz

Metasurfaces are subwavelength structured thin films consisting of arrays of units that allow the controls of polarization, phase and amplitude of light over a subwavelength thickness. The recent developments in topological photonics have…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-02 Jian Wei You , Zhihao Lan , Qian Ma , Zhen Gao , Yihao Yang , Fei Gao , Meng Xiao , Tie Jun Cui

We introduce a new "universality class" of artificial optical media - photonic hyper-crystals. These hyperbolic metamaterials with periodic spatial variation of dielectric permittivity on subwavelength scale, combine the features of optical…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-05 Evgenii E. Narimanov

Periodically driven optical materials and metamaterials have recently emerged as a promising platform for realizing photonic time crystals (PTCs), which are systems whose optical properties are strongly and periodically modulated on…