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Photonic circuits modulated in time can convert the input light frequency $\omega_0$ shifting it by multiples of the modulation frequency $\omega_p$ and, in certain cases, amplify the total input light power. Of special interest are…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 M. Sumetsky

Photonic Time crystals (PTC) arise in time-modulated media when the frequency of modulation of permittivity is on the order of twice the frequency of light and are manifested by the generation and amplification of so-called time reversed…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-01 Jacob B Khurgin

We present an effective medium description of time-modulated dielectric media. By taking the averaged fields over one modulation period, the relationship between them is derived, defining therefore the different constitutive parameters. In…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-04 Dani Torrent

The ability to manipulate phonon waveforms in continuous media has attracted significant research interest and is crucial for practical applications ranging from biological imaging to material characterization. Although several spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-17 Megumi Kurosu , Daiki Hatanaka , Koji Onomitsu , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

We developed a hydrodynamic model of plasmonic crystals formed in the current-driven grating gate transistor structures. The model demonstrates that the quality factor of plasmonic resonances could be increased by using ungated regions with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 G. R. Aizin , J. Mikalopas , M. Shur

We study the influence of the space and time dispersion on the frequency dependence of the wave vectors of electromagnetic waves propagating in three-dimensional photonic crystals. Two types of structures are considered: media with weak…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Bass , V. Freilikher , O. Shefranova

We theoretically investigate dispersion of plasma waves propagating in a lateral plasmonic crystal based on a two-dimensional electron system with grating gates. Two specific configurations are analyzed: a system with single grating gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 I. V. Gorbenko , P. A. Gusikhin , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , V. M. Muravev

For over a decade, photonic time crystals have promised access to novel and exotic optical phenomena, offering fundamentally new ways to manipulate classical and quantum light. Central to these capabilities is the emergence of momentum…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-16 Mohammadreza Salehi , Matteo Ciabattoni , Francesco Monticone

Plasmonic lattices consisting of nanoparticles in a homogeneous environment are well known fortheir support of so-called lattice plasmon resonances. They are associated with localized surfaceplasmons coupled to each other via free…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-18 I. M. Fradkin , S. A. Dyakov , N. A. Gippius

Space-time modulated elastic media, whose material properties vary in both space and time, have attracted significant attention as a promising strategy for achieving nonreciprocal propagation of elastic waves. To date, most studies have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Yingrui Ye , Chunxia Liu , Xiaopeng Wang , Antonio Palermo

In this study, we investigate the dynamics of dispersive photonic time crystals (PTCs) and their potential applications for controlling light-matter interaction. By employing the Lorentz-Drude model, we analyze theoretically and via…

The hallmark feature of photonic time crystals (PTCs) is the momentum bandgap, yet opening such a gap is extremely challenging, as it demands strong and rapid temporal modulation of the material properties. Recent theoretical advances have…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Bolun Huang , Zebin Zhu , Genrong Yu , Zhen Gao

Lorentzian-type media support optical phonons that oscillate with longitudinal polarization parallel to the wave direction, at a wave vector-independent frequency at which the permittivity becomes zero. Here, we study the interactions…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-26 Sihao Zhang , Junhua Dong , Huanan Li , Jingjun Xu , Boris Shapiro

Topological photonics has recently emerged as a very general framework for the design of unidirectional edge waveguides immune to back-scattering and deformations, as well as other platforms that feature extreme nonreciprocal wave…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-01 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

We report an optically modulated experimental realization of a photonic time crystal (PTC) in the microwave regime, demonstrating for the first time that the PTC exponential growth can overcome losses and finite-size constraints of a…

We present analytical expressions for the resonance frequencies of the plasmonic modes hosted in a cylindrical nanoparticle within the quasistatic approximation. Our theoretical model gives us access to both the longitudinally and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Charles A. Downing , Guillaume Weick

Studying the topology of spatiotemporal media poses a fundamental challenge: their remarkable properties stem from breaking spatial and temporal symmetries, yet this same breaking obscures their topological characterization. Here, we show…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-27 Alejandro Caballero , Thomas F. Allard , Paloma A. Huidobro

Photonic crystals and metamaterials have emerged as two classes of tailorable materials that enable precise control of light. Plasmonic crystals, which can be thought of as photonic crystals fabricated from plasmonic materials, Bragg…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Gregory C. Dyer , Gregory R. Aizin , S. James Allen , Albert D. Grine , Don Bethke , John L. Reno , Eric A. Shaner

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…

It is well known that an interface created by two topologically distinct structures could host nontrivial edge states that are immune to defects. In this letter, we introduce a one-dimensional space-time phononic crystal and study the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Mourad Oudich , Yuanchen Deng , Molei Tao , Yun Jing