Photonic time-crystals-fundamental concepts

E Lustig, O Segal, S Saha, C Fruhling, VM Shalaev… - Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Photonic Time-Crystals (PTCs) are materials in which the refractive index varies periodically
and abruptly in time. This medium exhibits unusual properties such as momentum bands …

ℏω versus ℏk : dispersion and energy constraints on time-varying photonic materials and time crystals

Z Hayran, JB Khurgin, F Monticone - Optical Materials Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
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 …

Amplified emission and lasing in photonic time crystals

M Lyubarov, Y Lumer, A Dikopoltsev, E Lustig… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Photonic time crystals (PTCs), materials with a dielectric permittivity that is modulated
periodically in time, offer new concepts in light manipulation. We study theoretically the …

Metasurface-based realization of photonic time crystals

X Wang, MS Mirmoosa, VS Asadchy, C Rockstuhl… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Photonic time crystals are artificial materials whose electromagnetic properties are uniform
in space but periodically vary in time. The synthesis of these materials and experimental …

Spacetime metamaterials—Part II: Theory and applications

C Caloz, ZL Deck-Leger - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The overall article presents the authors' vision of the emerging field of spacetime
metamaterials, and related systems, in a cohesive and pedagogical perspective …

Quantum electrodynamics of time-varying gratings

SAR Horsley, JB Pendry - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Gratings which are in apparent motion reveal some startling properties for classical
radiation, especially for luminal gratings traveling at or around the speed of light. We show …

Metamaterials with high degrees of freedom: space, time, and more

N Engheta - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
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Microwave space-time-modulated metasurfaces

S Taravati, GV Eleftheriades - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, static metasurfaces have proved to be low-profile and efficient
apparatuses for transformation of electromagnetic waves. However, such metasurfaces are …

Topological aspects of photonic time crystals

E Lustig, Y Sharabi, M Segev - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We find topological band structures in photonic time crystals—materials in which the
refractive index varies periodically and abruptly in time. When the refractive index changes …

Time-periodic stiffness modulation in elastic metamaterials for selective wave filtering: Theory and experiment

G Trainiti, Y Xia, J Marconi, G Cazzulani, A Erturk… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Elastic waveguides with time-modulated stiffness feature a frequency-periodic dispersion
spectrum, where branches merge at multiple integers of half the modulation frequency and …