Theory and applications of photonic time crystals: a tutorial

MM Asgari, P Garg, X Wang, MS Mirmoosa… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
This tutorial offers a comprehensive overview of photonic time crystals: artificial materials
whose electromagnetic properties are periodically modulated in time at scales comparable …

Temporal interfaces in complex electromagnetic materials: an overview

MH Mostafa, MS Mirmoosa, MS Sidorenko… - Optical Materials …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Time-varying metamaterials are currently at the forefront of research, offering immense
possibilities for intriguing wave manipulations. Temporal modulations of metamaterials have …

Observation of discrete-light temporal refraction by moving potentials with broken Galilean invariance

C Qin, H Ye, S Wang, L Zhao, M Liu, Y Li, X Hu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Refraction is a basic beam bending effect at two media's interface. While traditional studies
focus on stationary boundaries, moving boundaries or potentials could enable new laws of …

Pseudounitary Floquet scattering matrix for wave-front shaping in time-periodic photonic media

D Globosits, J Hüpfl, S Rotter - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
The physics of waves in time-varying media provides numerous opportunities for wave
control that are unattainable with static media. In particular, Floquet systems with a periodic …

Space-time Fresnel prism

Z Li, X Ma, A Bahrami, ZL Deck-Léger, C Caloz - Physical Review Applied, 2023 - APS
Space-time modulation-based metamaterials have recently spurred considerable interest,
owing to the fundamental addition of the time dimension to the medium parameters and …

Photonic time crystals: Theory and applications

MM Asgari, P Garg, X Wang, MS Mirmoosa… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
This tutorial offers a comprehensive overview of photonic time crystals-artificial materials
whose electromagnetic properties are periodically modulated in time at scales comparable …

Emulating time interfaces via smooth temporal transitions

M Antyufeyeva, V Pacheco-Peña - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.19847, 2024 - arxiv.org
The introduction of time as a new degree of freedom to control wave-matter interactions
have opened new avenues to fully control wave propagation in four dimensions (x, y, z, t) …

Topological hysteretic winding for ultrafast anti-lasing

R Fleury, H Qin, Z Zhang, J Wang - 2024 - researchsquare.com
Coherent perfect absorption (CPA), or anti-lasing, has been so far inherently restricted to
continuous wave scenarios, drastically restricting its applications to standard linear steady …