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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

We consider the evolution of electromagnetic fields in curved spacetimes and calculate the exact wave equations of the associated electric and magnetic components. Our analysis is fully covariant, applies to a general spacetime and isolates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Christos G. Tsagas

Nonlinear interactions of waves via instantaneous cross-phase modulation can be cast in the same way as ponderomotive wave-particle interactions in high-frequency electromagnetic field. The ponderomotive effect arises when rays of a probe…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 I. Y. Dodin , N. J. Fisch

Space-time modulated systems have recently emerged as a powerful platform for dynamic electromagnetic processing in both space and time. Most of the related research so far has assumed abrupt parameter profiles. This paper extends the field…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-11 Zhiyu Li , Xikui Ma , Klaas De Kinder , Amir Bahrami , Christophe Caloz

Light can be confined transversely and delivered axially in a waveguide. However, waveguides are lossy static structures whose modal characteristics are fundamentally determined by the boundary conditions, and thus cannot be readily changed…

Spatio-temporal imaging of light propagation is very important in photonics because it provides the most direct tool available to study the interaction between light and its host environment. Sub-ps time resolution is needed to investigate…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-17 Lorenzo Pattelli , Romolo Savo , Matteo Burresi , Diederik S. Wiersma

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…

Recently, we have discovered a new concept of permanent wave resonance with potential spatial oscillations. This means the constant wave swinging frequency on the whole energy intervals of spectral forbidden zones destroying physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-13 B. N. Zakhariev , V. M. Chabanov

Modulation of metasurfaces in time gives rise to several exotic space-time scattering phenomena by violating the reciprocity and generation of higher-order frequency harmonics. We introduce a new design paradigm for time-modulated…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-31 Mohammad Mahdi Salary , Samad Jafar-Zanjani , Hossein Mosallaei

Lossless linear wave propagation is symmetric in time, a principle which can be used to create time reversed waves. Such waves are special 'pre-scattered' spatiotemporal fields, which propagate through a complex medium as if observing a…

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

Changing the microstructure properties of a space-time metamaterial while a wave is propagating through it, in general requires addition or removal of energy, which can be of exponential form depending on the type of modulation. This limits…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Kshiteej J. Deshmukh , Graeme W. Milton

We prove the possibility of achieving unidirectional edge modes in time-modulated supercell structures. Such finite structures consist of two trimers repeated periodically. Because of their symmetry, they admit degenerate edge eigenspaces.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao

We observe a new type of magneto-oscillations in the photovoltage and the longitudinal resistance of a two-dimensional electron system. The oscillations are induced by microwave irradiation and are periodic in magnetic field. The period is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Kukushkin , M. Yu. Akimov , J. H. Smet , S. A. Mikhailov , K. von Klitzing , I. L. Aleiner , V. I. Falko

Flexible mechanical metamaterials are compliant structures engineered to achieve unique properties via the large deformation of their components. While their static character has been studied extensively, the study of their dynamic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Bolei Deng , Jordan R. Raney , Katia Bertoldi , Vincent Tournat

This article presents theoretical results for the dynamic response of periodically surface-modulated ferromagnetic thin films. For such system, the role of the periodic dipolar field induced by the modulation is addressed by using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 R. A. Gallardo , M. Langer , A. Roldán-Molina , T. Schneider , K. Lenz , J. Lindner , P. Landeros

We study the coherence in time and space of electromagnetic fields propagated through complex media. Whether for localization, imaging or telecommunication, the development of dedicated numerical techniques is generally based on the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-04-21 Thomas Fromenteze , Matthieu Davy , Okan Yurduseven , Yann Marie-Joseph , Cyril Decroze

In this letter we briefly investigate the mathematical structure of space-time in the framework of discretization. It is shown that the discreteness of space-time may result in a new mechanical system which differ from the usual quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-29 An-Wei Zhang

The ability to modulate free electrons with light has emerged as a powerful tool to produce attosecond electron wavepackets. However, research has so far aimed at the manipulation of the longitudinal wave function component, while the…

Optics · Physics 2023-06-14 F. Javier García de Abajo , Claus Ropers

Time-varying guiding structures introduce an additional degree of freedom, besides spatial-variation, that enables better control over the guided wave in a device. Periodically time-modulated structures which are usually considered enable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Yakir Hadad , Amir Shlivinski