Nonlinear optical effects in epsilon-near-zero media

O Reshef, I De Leon, MZ Alam, RW Boyd - Nature Reviews Materials, 2019 - nature.com
Efficient nonlinear optical interactions are essential for many applications in modern
photonics. However, they typically require intense laser sources and long interaction …

Broadband metamaterial absorbers

P Yu, LV Besteiro, Y Huang, J Wu, L Fu… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The recent rise of metamaterials opens new opportunities for absorbers due to their
designed electrodynamic properties and effects, allowing the creation of materials with …

Near-zero-index materials for photonics

N Kinsey, C DeVault, A Boltasseva… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery, design and development of materials are critically linked to advances in
many areas of research, and optics is no exception. Recently, the spectral region in which …

Broad-band ultrafast all-optical switching based on enhanced nonlinear absorption in corrugated indium tin oxide films

H Jiang, Y Zhao, H Ma, Y Wu, M Chen, M Wang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast all-optical switches based on epsilon-near-zero (ENZ)-enhanced nonlinear
refraction in transparent conducting oxides have achieved exciting results in realizing large …

Epsilon-near-zero photonics: infinite potentials

J Wu, ZT Xie, Y Sha, HY Fu, Q Li - Photonics Research, 2021 - opg.optica.org
With its unique and exclusive linear and nonlinear optical characteristics, epsilon-near-zero
(ENZ) photonics has drawn a tremendous amount of attention in the recent decade in the …

Optical and electrical properties of ultra-thin indium tin oxide nanofilms on silicon for infrared photonics

JW Cleary, EM Smith, KD Leedy… - Optical Materials …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optical and electrical properties of indium tin oxide (ITO) films on Si substrates in the
thickness range from 10 nm to 100 nm were investigated. Spectroscopic ellipsometry was …

Spectral phase singularity and topological behavior in perfect absorption

M Liu, W Chen, G Hu, S Fan, DN Christodoulides… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Perfect absorbers, which can achieve total absorption of all incoming energy, have been
extensively studied in the last decades for various important technologies in general wave …

A semi-classical view on epsilon-near-zero resonant tunneling modes in metal/insulator/metal nanocavities

V Caligiuri, M Palei, G Biffi, S Artyukhin, R Krahne - Nano letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Metal/Insulator/Metal nanocavities (MIMs) are highly versatile systems for nanometric light
confinement and waveguiding, and their optical properties are mostly interpreted in terms of …

Enhanced Nonlinearity of Epsilon‐Near‐Zero Indium Tin Oxide Nanolayers with Tamm Plasmon‐Polariton States

T Shubitidze, WA Britton… - Advanced Optical Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, materials with vanishingly small permittivity, known as epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ)
media, emerged as promising candidates to achieve nonlinear optical effects of …

Negative refraction in time-varying strongly coupled plasmonic-antenna–epsilon-near-zero systems

V Bruno, C DeVault, S Vezzoli, Z Kudyshev, T Huq… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Time-varying metasurfaces are emerging as a powerful instrument for the dynamical control
of the electromagnetic properties of a propagating wave. Here we demonstrate an efficient …