Photonics of Time-Varying Media
arXiv:2111.08640 · doi:10.1117/1.AP.4.1.014002
Abstract
Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, thanks to thesynergy between the discovery of novel, highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near-zero materials, and the questfor novel wave applications, such as magnet-free nonreciprocity, multi-mode light shaping, and ultrafast switching. Inthis review we provide a comprehensive discussion of the recent progress achieved with photonic metamaterials whoseproperties stem from their modulation in time. We review the basic concepts underpinning temporal switching and itsrelation with spatial scattering, and deploy the resulting insight to review photonic time-crystals and their emergentresearch avenues such as topological and non-Hermitian physics. We then extend our discussion to account for spa-tiotemporal modulation and its applications to nonreciprocity, synthetic motion, giant anisotropy, amplification andother effects. Finally, we conclude with a review of the most attractive experimental avenues recently demonstrated,and provide a few perspectives on emerging trends for future implementations of time-modulation in photonics.
References in corpus (38)
- The electronic properties of graphene
- Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Atomically Thin MoS2/WS2 Heterostructures
- Epsilon-Near-Zero (ENZ) Metamaterials and Electromagnetic Sources: Tailoring the Radiation Phase Pattern
- Observation of a dissipative time crystal
- Dynamics of light propagation in spatiotemporal dielectric structures
- Enhanced third harmonic generation from the epsilon-near-zero modes of ultrathin films
- Dynamical Evolution of Anisotropic Response in Black Phosphorus under Ultrafast Photoexcitation
- Optical time reversal from time-dependent Epsilon-Near-Zero media
- Temporal multilayer structures for designing higher-order transfer functions using time-varying metamaterials
- Homogenisation Theory of Space-Time Metamaterials
- Fizeau Drag in Graphene Plasmonics
- Parametric amplification and bidirectional invisibility in PT-symmetric time-Floquet systems
- Experimental Observation of Efficient Nonreciprocal Mode Transitions via Spatiotemporally-Modulated Acoustic Metamaterials
- Wood Anomalies and Surface-Wave Excitation with a Time-Grating
- Time-Varying Materials in Presence of Dispersion: Plane-Wave Propagation in a Lorentzian Medium with Temporal Discontinuity
- A Generalization of the Kramers-Kronig Relations for Linear Time-Varying Media
- Asymmetric frequency conversion with acoustic non-Hermitian space-time varying metamaterial
- Electromagnetic Isolation Induced by Time-Varying Metasurfaces: Non-Reciprocal Bragg Grating
- Universal statistics of waves in a random time-varying medium
- Quantum Simulation of the Bosonic Creutz Ladder with a Parametric Cavity
- Field Patterns: A New Mathematical Object
- Spatiotemporal refraction of light in an epsilon-near-zero ITO layer
- Loss Compensation in Time-Dependent Elastic Metamaterials
- WS2 Monolayers Coupled to Hyperbolic Metamaterial Nanoantennas: Broad Implications for Light-Matter-Interaction Applications
- Enhanced nonlinear optical response of single metal-dielectric nanocavities resonating in the near-infrared
- Strong Spatial Dispersion in Time-Modulated Dielectric Media
- Time refraction of spin waves
- Ultrafast nonlinear pulse propagation dynamics in metal-dielectric periodic photonic architectures
- Static-to-dynamic field conversion with time-varying media
- Space-Time Cross-Mapping and Application to Wave Scattering
- Photon localisation and Bloch symmetry breaking in luminal gratings
- Nonlinear Zel'dovich effect: Parametric amplification from medium rotation
- Temporal metamaterials with gain and loss
- Non-hermitian time evolution: from static to parametric instability
- Scattering from spheres made of time-varying and dispersive materials
- Temporal Parity-Time Symmetry for Extreme Energy Transformations
- Efficient Computation of Spatially-Discrete Traveling-Wave Modulated Structures
- Time localization of energy in disordered time-modulated systems
Cited by in corpus (26)
- Optical skyrmions and other topological quasiparticles of light
- Observation of Temporal Reflections and Broadband Frequency Translations at Photonic Time-Interfaces
- Double-slit time diffraction at optical frequencies
- Metasurface-Based Realization of Photonic Time Crystals
- Roadmap on structured waves
- Photonic Metamaterial Analogue of a Continuous Time Crystal
- Superluminal k-gap solitons in nonlinear photonic time-crystals
- Incandescent temporal metamaterials
- Stationary Charge Radiation in Anisotropic Photonic Time Crystals
- Eigenpulses of dispersive time-varying media
- Short-Pulsed Metamaterials
- Tapered Photonic Switching
- Parametric Mie resonances and directional amplification in time-modulated scatterers
- Temporal interfaces by instantaneously varying boundary conditions
- Time reflection and refraction in synthetic frequency dimension
- Multiple actions of time-resolved short-pulsed metamaterials
- Unidirectional scattering with spatial homogeneity using photonic time disorder
- A Decade of Time Crystals: Quo Vadis?
- Rotating Spacetime Modulation: Topological Phases and Spacetime Haldane Model
- Nonreciprocal light propagation induced by a subwavelength spinning cylinder
- Designing Multi-functional Metamaterials
- Transmission properties of time-dependent one-dimensional metamaterials
- Beam deflection and negative drag in a moving nonlinear medium
- Inverse design of optical pulse shapes for time-varying photonics
- Optical isolation by temporal modulation: size, frequency, and power constraints
- Electromagnetic fields between moving mirrors: Singular waveforms inside Doppler cavities