Photonics of time-varying media

E Galiffi, R Tirole, S Yin, H Li, S Vezzoli… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, due
to the synergy between the discovery of highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near …

Transparent conducting oxides: from all-dielectric plasmonics to a new paradigm in integrated photonics

W Jaffray, S Saha, VM Shalaev… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
During the past few years, the optics and photonics communities have renewed their
attention toward transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), which for over two decades have …

New horizons in near-zero refractive index photonics and hyperbolic metamaterials

M Lobet, N Kinsey, I Liberal, H Caglayan… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The engineering of the spatial and temporal properties of both the electric permittivity and
the refractive index of materials is at the core of photonics. When vanishing to zero, those …

Saturable time-varying mirror based on an epsilon-near-zero material

R Tirole, E Galiffi, J Dranczewski, T Attavar… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
We report a switchable time-varying mirror, composed of an indium-tin-oxide–gold bilayer,
displaying a tenfold modulation of reflectivity (Δ R≈ 0.6), which saturates for a driving-pump …

Incandescent temporal metamaterials

JE Vázquez-Lozano, I Liberal - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Regarded as a promising alternative to spatially shaping matter, time-varying media can be
seized to control and manipulate wave phenomena, including thermal radiation. Here …

Metasurface on integrated photonic platform: from mode converters to machine learning

Z Wang, Y Xiao, K Liao, T Li, H Song, H Chen… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Integrated photonic circuits are created as a stable and small form factor analogue of fiber-
based optical systems, from wavelength-division multiplication transceivers to more recent …

A tutorial on the basics of time-varying electromagnetic systems and circuits: Historic overview and basic concepts of time-modulation

G Ptitcyn, MS Mirmoosa, A Sotoodehfar… - IEEE Antennas and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During the last decade, possibilities to realize new phenomena and create new applications
by varying system properties in time have gained increasing attention in many research …

Strongly coupled plasmon polaritons in gold and epsilon-near-zero bifilms

S Choudhary, S Iqbal, M Karimi, O Reshef… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) polaritons in a thin transparent conducting-oxide film exhibit a
significant electric field enhancement and localization within the film at frequencies close to …

Double-resolved beam steering by metagrating-based tamm plasmon polariton

RG Bikbaev, DN Maksimov, KP Chen, IV Timofeev - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
We consider Tamm plasmon polariton in a subwavelength grating patterned on top of a
Bragg reflector. We demonstrate dynamic control of the phase and amplitude of a plane …

Understanding all-optical switching at the epsilon-near-zero point: a tutorial review

C Fruhling, MG Ozlu, S Saha, A Boltasseva… - Applied Physics B, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials that operate in the spectral region where the real
part of the permittivity crosses zero have recently emerged as a promising platform for all …