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A comprehensive experimental analysis of spatio-temporal coupling effects inherent to the acousto-optic programmable dispersive filter (AOPDF) is presented. Phase and amplitude measurements of the AOPDF transfer function are performed using…

Time-varying nanostructures allow us to control the spatial and temporal properties of light. The temporal modulation of the nanostructures constitutes an additional degree of freedom to control their scattering properties on demand and in…

Controlling the longitudinal phase space of high-brightness relativistic electron beams is crucial for advancing a broad spectrum of charged-particle-based instrumentation and scientific frontiers. A generalized method for achieving this…

Controlling amplitude, phase and polarization of electromagnetic waves is key for a full manipulation of wave-matter interactions. The Brewster angle is one of the important features in this context. Here, we exploit metamaterial concepts…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

The deflection of waves by combining the effects of time modulation with anisotropy has been recently proposed in the context of electromagnetism. In this work, we characterise this phenomenon, called temporal aiming, for water waves using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Magdalini Koukouraki , Philippe Petitjeans , Agnès Maurel , Vincent Pagneux

The metamaterial is proposed which supports a mixture of three or more normal and backward electromagnetic modes with equal co-directed phase velocities and mutually contra-directed energy fluxes. This enables extraordinary three-wave…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Alexander K. Popov , Sergey A. Myslivets

Spatiotemporal modulation offers a variety of opportunities for light manipulations. In this paper, we propose a way towards arbitrary transformation for pulses sequentially propagating within one waveguide in space via temporal waveguide…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-15 Zhaohui Dong , Xianfeng Chen , Luqi Yuan

Time-varying media offer a platform to realize novel and exotic wave effects, including photonic time crystals characterized by momentum band gaps with exponential wave amplification. Here we focus on the quantum electrodynamical properties…

Time-resolved scattering experiments enable imaging of materials at the molecular scale with femtosecond time resolution. However, in disordered media they provide access to just one radial dimension thus limiting the study of orientational…

Controlling waves in complex media has become a major topic of interest, notably through the concepts of time reversal and wavefront shaping. Recently, it was shown that spatial light modulators can counter-intuitively focus waves both in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Philipp del Hougne , Fabrice Lemoult , Mathias Fink , Geoffroy Lerosey

Within the frame of quantum optics we analyze the properties of spontaneous emission of two-level atom in media with indefinite permittivity tensor where the geometry of the dispersion relation is characterized by an ellipsoid or a…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-06 Zheng Liu , Wei Li , Xunya Jiang

Metasurfaces characterized by a transverse gradient of local impedance have recently opened exciting directions for light manipulation at the nanoscale. Here we add a temporal gradient to the picture, showing that spatio-temporal variations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 Y. Hadad , D. L. Sounas , A. Alu

In general, space-time wave packets with correlations between transverse spatial fields and temporal frequency spectra can lead to unique spatiotemporal dynamics, thus enabling control of the instantaneous light properties. However,…

We study the effect of gravitational time delay on the power spectra and bispectra of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization anisotropies. The time delay effect modulates the spatial surface at recombination on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu , Asantha Cooray

Synthetic dimensions have garnered widespread interest for implementing high dimensional classical and quantum dynamics on lower dimensional geometries. Synthetic frequency dimensions, in particular, have been used to experimentally realize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Avik Dutt , Luqi Yuan , Ki Youl Yang , Kai Wang , Siddharth Buddhiraju , Jelena Vučković , Shanhui Fan

Orbital angular momentum of light is a core feature in photonics. Its confinement to surfaces using plasmonics has unlocked many phenomena and potential applications. Here we introduce the reflection from structural boundaries as a new…

The recent investigation into the phenomena of refraction and reflection at temporal boundaries, conducted through the lens of spacetime duality, has attracted considerable scholarly interest. This duality unveils insights into the…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-21 Jing Wang , Yuetao Chen , Shaoyan Gao

The concept of twistronics and moir\'e physics, which is present in twisted two-dimensional bilayer materials, has recently attracted growing attention in various fields of science and engineering such as condensed matter physics,…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-18 Grigorii Ptitcyn , Nader Engheta

A novel approach to improving the performances of confocal scanning imaging is proposed. We experimentally demonstrate its feasibility using acoustic waves. It relies on a new way to encode spatial information using the temporal dimension.…

Modern quantum optics primarily operates in the quasistationary regime, isolated from the intrinsic timescales of ultrafast optical fields. Pushing these boundaries into the femtosecond and attosecond domains is a critical frontier. Here,…

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