English
Related papers

Related papers: Multi-mode Photonic Time Crystals Based on Time-Mo…

200 papers

Exotic forms of wave control have been emerging by engineering matter in space and time. In this framework, temporal photonic interfaces, i.e., abrupt changes in the electromagnetic properties of a material, have been shown to induce…

Photonic time-varying systems have attracted significant attention owing to their rich physics and potential opportunities for new and enhanced functionalities. In this context, the duality of space and time in wave physics has been…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-13 Zeki Hayran , Jacob B. Khurgin , Francesco Monticone

Space-time metamaterials, or materials with properties changing in space and time, have gained a wide-spread interest due to their exotic properties. In this Letter, we propose a novel temporal metasurface of phononic crystals in one and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Kshiteej J. Deshmukh

The exciting discovery of topological condensed matter systems has lately triggered a search for their photonic analogs, motivated by the possibility of robust backscattering-immune light transport. However, topological photonic phases have…

Moving metasurfaces support guided waves exhibiting unusual optical properties, including strong anisotropy, nonreciprocity, and hyperbolic dispersion. However, for these phenomena to be noticeable, high speeds are typically required,…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 Yarden Mazor , Andrea Alù

The response of a tunable photonic oscillator, consisting of an Optically Injected Semiconductor Laser, under an injected Frequency Comb is considered with the utilization of the concept of the Time Crystal that has been widely used for the…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-03 Georgia Himona , Vassilios Kovanis , Yannis Kominis

The engineering of the optical properties of materials in space and time is opening further directions and possibilities to control wave propagation in four dimensions (x,y,z,t). A key example of such modulations are time interfaces where…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-14 Andrew M. Naylor , Victor Pacheco-Peña

Metasurfaces are a key photonic platform to manipulate classical light using sub-wavelength structures with designer optical response. Static metasurfaces have recently entered the realm of quantum photonics, showing their ability to tailor…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-28 Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp , Abul K. Azad , Diego A. R. Dalvit

Resonant photonic nanostructures exhibiting enhanced nonlinear responses and efficient frequency conversion are an emergent platform in nonlinear optics. High-index semiconductor metasurfaces with rapidly tuned high-Q resonances enable a…

We show theoretically that, in the limit of weak dispersion, one-dimensional (1D) binary centrosymmetric photonic crystals can support topological edge modes in all photonic band gaps. By analyzing their bulk band topology, these "harmonic"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Ka Hei Choi , C. W. Ling , K. F. Lee , Y. H. Tsang , Kin Hung Fung

The microstrip of modulated width is a realization of a one-dimensional photonic crystal operating in the microwave regime. Like any photonic crystal, the periodic microstrip is characterised by the presence of frequency bands and band gaps…

Photonic crystals (PhCs) have emerged as a popular platform for realizing various topological phases due to their flexibility and potential for device applications. In this article, we present a comprehensive classification of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sachin Vaidya , Ali Ghorashi , Thomas Christensen , Mikael C. Rechtsman , Wladimir A. Benalcazar

Time photonic crystals have attracted growing attention in recent years owing to their abilities to enable broadband field enhancements, e.g., free-space electromagnetic waves, dipolar emissions, free-electron radiation, etc. While the…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-17 Junkai Jiang , Hao Hu , Yang Long , Liangliang Liu , Songyan Hou , Dongjue Liu , Zhuo Li

Manipulation of wave-matter interactions in systems with loss and gain have opened new mechanisms to control wave propagation at will. Metamaterials and metasurfaces having spatially inhomogeneous loss and gain have been studied in the past…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-03 Victor Pacheco-Peña , Nader Engheta

Photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) are optical fibres that guide light using a modulated dielectric medium. They provide an exceptionally versatile platform for various applications, thanks to the flexibility with which light-guiding can be…

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

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…

Topological photonic insulators show promise for applications in compact integrated photonic circuits due to their ability to transport light robustly through sharp bendings. The number of topological edge states relies on the difference…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-19 Weiyuan Tang , Mudi Wang , Shaojie Ma , C. T. Chan , Shuang Zhang

We propose and theoretically demonstrate nonreciprocal negative refraction enabled by time-varying photonic structures. By engineering temporal modulations at the interfaces of hyperbolic media, we achieve isolation between forward and…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Mohammad R. Tavakol , Wenshan Cai

We introduce the Carrier Drift Modulation - a new mechanism for creating temporal boundaries and enabling photonic time crystals. This approach opens a direct route to hyperbolic temporal metamaterials and, in particular, hyperbolic time…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-05 Evgenii E. Narimanov , Boris Shapiro