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An avalanche model for femtosecond optical response
J. B. Pendry
Experiments on Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) have revealed that a relatively broad 200THz pump pulse, roughly 30 cycles in width, can switch ITO from a transparent to a reflecting state w…
Space-Time Optical Diffraction from Synthetic Motion
A. C. Harwood, S. Vezzoli, T. V. Raziman +7
The interaction of light with objects and media moving at relativistic and superluminal speeds enables unconventional phenomena such as Fresnel drag, Hawking radiation, and light a…
Particle-hole instabilities in photonic time-varying systems
João C. Serra, Emanuele Galiffi, Paloma A. Huidobro +2
Photonic systems with time-varying modulations have attracted considerable attention as they allow for the design of non-reciprocal devices without the need for an external magneti…
Stable-to-unstable transition in quantum friction
Daigo Oue, J. B. Pendry, Mário G. Silveirinha
We investigate the frictional force arising from quantum fluctuations when two dissipative metallic plates are set in a shear motion. While early studies showed that the electromag…
Second harmonic generation at a time-varying interface
Romain Tirole, Stefano Vezzoli, Dhruv Saxena +6
Time-varying metamaterials rely on large and fast changes of the linear permittivity. Beyond the linear terms, however, the effect of a non-perturbative modulation of the medium on…