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 …

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 …

Large optical nonlinearity of nanoantennas coupled to an epsilon-near-zero material

MZ Alam, SA Schulz, J Upham, I De Leon, RW Boyd - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
The size and operating energy of a nonlinear optical device are fundamentally constrained
by the weakness of the nonlinear optical response of common materials. Here, we report …

Advances in ultrafast plasmonics

AN Koya, M Romanelli, J Kuttruff… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In the past 20 years, we have reached a broad understanding of many light-driven
phenomena in nanoscale systems. The temporal dynamics of the excited states are instead …

All-optical switching of an epsilon-near-zero plasmon resonance in indium tin oxide

J Bohn, TS Luk, C Tollerton, SW Hutchings… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nonlinear optical devices and their implementation into modern nanophotonic architectures
are constrained by their usually moderate nonlinear response. Recently, epsilon-near-zero …

Radio-frequency broadband epsilon-near-zero response in biocompatible silver nanoparticles/polystyrene films with three-dimensional honeycomb-like …

H Wu, Z Zhang, C Wang, KM Abualnaja… - … Composites and Hybrid …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metamaterials have aroused considerable research due to
the unique electromagnetic characteristics. In this work, for the first time, the non-solvent …

Ultrafast low-pump fluence all-optical modulation based on graphene-metal hybrid metasurfaces

A Basiri, MZE Rafique, J Bai, S Choi… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Graphene is an attractive material for all-optical modulation because of its ultrafast optical
response and broad spectral coverage. However, all-optical graphene modulators reported …

Material platforms for optical metasurfaces

SM Choudhury, D Wang, K Chaudhuri, C DeVault… - …, 2018 - degruyter.com
Optical metasurfaces are judicously engineered electromagnetic interfaces that can control
and manipulate many of light's quintessential properties, such as amplitude, phase, and …

Ultrafast hot electron dynamics in plasmonic nanostructures: experiments, modelling, design

A Schirato, M Maiuri, G Cerullo, G Della Valle - Nanophotonics, 2023 - degruyter.com
Metallic nanostructures exhibit localized surface plasmons (LSPs), which offer
unprecedented opportunities for advanced photonic materials and devices. Following …

Controlling hybrid nonlinearities in transparent conducting oxides via two-colour excitation

M Clerici, N Kinsey, C DeVault, J Kim… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Nanophotonics and metamaterials have revolutionized the way we think about optical space
(ɛ, μ), enabling us to engineer the refractive index almost at will, to confine light to the …