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 …

Near-zero refractive index photonics

I Liberal, N Engheta - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Structures with near-zero parameters (for example, media with near-zero relative permittivity
and/or relative permeability, and thus a near-zero refractive index) exhibit a number of …

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 …

Dirac-like cone-based electromagnetic zero-index metamaterials

Y Li, CT Chan, E Mazur - Light: Science & Applications, 2021 - nature.com
Metamaterials with a Dirac-like cone dispersion at the center of the Brillouin zone behave
like an isotropic and impedance-matched zero refractive index material at the Dirac-point …

Epsilon‐near‐zero photonics: a new platform for integrated devices

X Niu, X Hu, S Chu, Q Gong - Advanced Optical Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Epsilon‐near‐zero (ENZ) photonics is the study of light–matter interactions in the
presence of structures with near‐zero permittivity and has been emerging as an important …

Dirac cones induced by accidental degeneracy in photonic crystals and zero-refractive-index materials

X Huang, Y Lai, ZH Hang, H Zheng, CT Chan - Nature materials, 2011 - nature.com
A zero-refractive-index metamaterial is one in which waves do not experience any spatial
phase change, and such a peculiar material has many interesting wave-manipulating …

Epsilon-near-zero Al-doped ZnO for ultrafast switching at telecom wavelengths

N Kinsey, C DeVault, J Kim, M Ferrera, VM Shalaev… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Transparent conducting oxides have recently gained great attention as CMOS-compatible
materials for applications in nanophotonics due to their low optical loss, metal-like behavior …

A hybrid invisibility cloak based on integration of transparent metasurfaces and zero-index materials

H Chu, Q Li, B Liu, J Luo, S Sun, ZH Hang… - Light: Science & …, 2018 - nature.com
The invisibility cloak, a long-standing fantastic dream for humans, has become more
tangible with the development of metamaterials. Recently, metasurface-based invisibility …

Digital metamaterials

C Della Giovampaola, N Engheta - Nature materials, 2014 - nature.com
Balancing complexity and simplicity has played an important role in the development of
many fields in science and engineering. One of the well-known and powerful examples of …

Photonic doping of epsilon-near-zero media

I Liberal, AM Mahmoud, Y Li, B Edwards, N Engheta - Science, 2017 - science.org
Doping a semiconductor with foreign atoms enables the control of its electrical and optical
properties. We transplant the concept of doping to macroscopic photonics, demonstrating …