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When coherent light interacts with an ordered lattice whose periodicity is comparable to its wavelength, constructive interference produces a diffraction pattern as in crystallography, where x-rays are employed to reveal atomic structures.…
In multiferroic TbMn$_2$O$_5$, the behavior of the terbium ions forms a crucial part of the magneto-electric coupling. The result is a magnetically induced reversal of the electric polarization at 2 T. In this article we present the first…
Recently, a lot of effort has been dedicated to developing next-generation optoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional materials, thanks to their unique optical properties that are significantly different from those of their bulk…
An analysis of electron transport in graphene is presented in the presence of various arrangement of delta-function like magnetic barriers. The motion through one such barrier gives an unusual non specular refraction leading to asymmetric…
Geometrical and dynamical phase have competing effects as far a scattering of light form inhomogeneous anisotropic optical medium is concerned. If fine-tuned appropriately, these effects can completely cancel each other for a chosen spin…
We consider layered heterostructures combining ordinary positive index materials and dispersive metamaterials. We show that these structures can exhibit a new type of photonic gap around frequencies where either the magnetic permeability…
In the presence of an external magnetic field, the optical response of two-dimensional materials, whose charge carriers behave as massless Dirac fermions with arbitrary anisotropic Fermi velocity, is investigated. Using Kubo formalism, we…
Left and right circularly polarized transverse electromagnetic waves propagate at slightly different speeds in a magnetic material leading to a polarization rotation by an amount proportional to the projection of the magnetic field along…
When a beam of light is laterally confined, its field distribution can exhibit points where the local magnetic and electric field vectors spin in a plane containing the propagation direction of the electromagnetic wave. The phenomenon…
Light with light control of surface plasmon polaritons is theoretically demonstrated. A barely simple and compact source of these waves consists in a finite number of slits (evenly spaced) perforating a metal film. The system scatters…
A theory of lasing in a two-dimensional array of metal nanoparticles (MNPs) covered with a thin layer of fluorescent molecules is developed from first principles. The approach is based on a rigorous account of the local field in a close…
We investigate the use of coherent optical fields as a means of dynamically controlling the resonant behaviour of a variety of composite metamaterials, wherein the metamaterial structures are embedded in a dispersive dielectric medium.…
We present finite-differences time- domain calculations of the effective permitivity of a periodic array of Cu strip wires that are an ingredient needed in metamaterials for obtaining left-handed materials. We use the Cu frequency dependent…
Scattering coefficients can diverge at spectral singularities. In such situation, the stationary solution becomes a laser solution with outgoing waves only. We explore a parity-time (PT)-symmetric non-Hermitian two-arm Aharonov-Bohm…
The r\^{o}le of the magnetoelectric effect upon optical reflectivity is studied by adapting an electrodynamic-based model for a system composed by a 2D metallic film in contact with an extended multiferroic material exhibiting weak…
A concept of backward-wave bianisotropic composite medium matched to free space is suggested. It is based on the use of a uniaxial bianisotropic structure embedded into a matrix with negative effective permittivity. Since bianisotropy is…
We present an experimental and theoretical study of the optical properties of metal-dielectric-metal structures with patterned top metallic surfaces, in the THz frequency range. When the thickness of the dielectric slab is very small with…
This study deals with the spin wave spectrum in magnetic macrostructure (composed of two ferromagnetic materials) showing a 3D periodicity: spherical ferromagnetic grains disposed in the nodes of a simple cubic crystal lattice are embedded…
The work describes the capabilities of Laser Scanning Microscopy (LSM) as a spatially resolved method of testing high_Tc materials and devices. The earlier results obtained by the authors are briefly reviewed. Some novel applications of the…
Magnetic straintronics, the strain-mediated control of magnetic anisotropy, has emerged as a key direction for next-generation energy-efficient technologies. In multiferroic heterostructures, magnetoelectric coupling is typically achieved…