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Space-time varying media enable unprecedented control over electromagnetic waves, yet most existing studies assume idealized, nondispersive materials and thus fail to capture the intrinsic frequency dispersion of realistic platforms. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

Time modulation of the physical parameters offers interesting new possibilities for wave control. Examples include amplification of waves, harmonic generation and non-reciprocity, without resorting to non-linear mechanisms. Most of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Michaël Darche , Raphaël Assier , Sébastien Guenneau , Bruno Lombard , Marie Touboul

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and we propose its new perspective in ultrafast dynamics in interacting electron systems. In particular, using graphene irradiated by an intense bi-circular pulse laser as a prototypical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-02 Tanay Nag , Robert-Jan Slager , Takuya Higuchi , Takashi Oka

Space-time modulation of refractive index can produce synthetically moving interfaces with arbitrary apparent velocities, including superluminal motion, offering new ways to control light in dynamic media. On the other hand, space-time wave…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Zeki Hayran , John B. Pendry

Wave-domain processing is an emerging paradigm where signal processing operations are partially shifted from the digital to the electromagnetic (EM) domain. Leveraging reconfigurable EM devices, this approach aims to reduce complexity,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Davide Dardari

Space-time light structuring has emerged as a very powerful tool for controlling the propagation dynamics of pulsed beam. The ability to manipulate and generate space-time distributions of light has been remarkably enhanced in past few…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-26 Pierre Béjot , Bertrand Kibler

Space-time modulation adds another powerful degree of freedom to the manipulation of classical wave systems. It opens the door for complex control of wave behavior beyond the reach of stationary systems, such as nonreciprocal wave transport…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Junfei Li , Xiaohui Zhu , Chen Shen , Xiuyuan Peng , Steven A. Cummer

Static metasurfaces have shown to be prominent compact structures for reciprocal and frequency-invariant transformation of electromagnetic waves in space. However, incorporating temporal variation to static metasurfaces would result in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Sajjad Taravati , George V. Eleftheriades

This study investigates human-computer interface generation based on diffusion models to overcome the limitations of traditional template-based design and fixed rule-driven methods. It first analyzes the key challenges of interface…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Rui Liu , Liuqingqing Yang , Runsheng Zhang , Shixiao Wang

While controlling particle diffusion in a confined geometry is a popular approach taken by both natural and artificial systems, it has not been widely adopted for controlling light transport in random media, where wave interference effects…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-06 Raktim Sarma , Alexey Yamilov , Seng Fatt Liew , Mikhael Guy , Hui Cao

It is shown that tailored breaking of the translational symmetry through weak scattering in waveguides and optical fibers can control chromatic dispersions of the individual modes at any order; thereby, it overcomes the problem of coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 A. Mandilara , C. A. Valagiannopoulos , V. M. Akulin

It is well known that direct observation of interference and diffraction pattern in the intensity distribution requires a spatially coherent source. Optical waves emitted from portions beyond the coherence area possess statistically…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Su-Heng Zhang , Lu Gao , Jun Xiong , Li-Juan Feng , De-Zhong Cao , Kaige Wang

We report the first experimental demonstration of combined spatial and temporal control of light trajectories through opaque media. This control is achieved by solely manipulating spatial degrees of freedom of the incident wavefront. As an…

We present an analysis of wave propagation in a two step-index, parallel waveguide system. The goal is to quantify the effect of scattering at randomly perturbed interfaces between the guiding layers of high index of refraction and the host…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

We analyze the propagation of an incident electromagnetic wave in a purely-time modulated medium. Precisely, we assume that the permeability is unchanged while the permittivity has a multiple-step profile in time and uniformly constant in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 Mourad Sini , Haibing Wang , Qingyun Yao

Controlling systems governed by partial differential equations is an inherently hard problem. Specifically, control of wave dynamics is challenging due to additional physical constraints and intrinsic properties of wave phenomena such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Tristan Shah , Feruza Amirkulova , Stas Tiomkin

Shaping the wavefront of an incident wave to a complex scattering medium has demonstrated interesting possibilities, such as sub-diffraction wave focusing and enhancing light energy delivery. However, wavefront shaping has mainly been based…

The use of coherent wave phenomena to enhance device performance is a cornerstone of modern optics. In juxtaposition to (locally) periodic metasurfaces, their disordered counterparts exhibit an interplay of destructive and constructive…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-08 P. Lalanne , A. Dmitriev , C. Rockstuhl , A. Sprafke , K. Vynck

We develop a diagrammatic theory for transport of waves in disordered media with weak nonlinearity. We first represent the solution of the nonlinear wave equation as a nonlinear Born series. From this, we construct nonlinear ladder and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thomas Wellens , Benoit Gremaud

Coherent controlization, i.e., coherent conditioning of arbitrary single- or multi-qubit operations on the state of one or more control qubits, is an important ingredient for the flexible implementation of many algorithms in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Nicolai Friis , Alexey A. Melnikov , Gerhard Kirchmair , Hans J. Briegel