11:15 - 11:45InvitedID: 262
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TOM 5 Resonant Nanophotonics
Time-varying metamaterials: dragging and amplifying light.
Paloma Arroyo Huidobro1, Emanuele Galiffi2, Mario Silveirinha1, John Pendry2
1Instituto de Telecomunicacoes - IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal; 2Imperial College London, UK
New opportunities enabled by time-varying metamaterials will be discussed. In particular, periodic temporal modulations of a metasurface allow to excite surface waves from the far field without any breaking of spatial invariance, while spatio-temporal metamaterials enable giant nonreciprocal effects even in the effective medium limit as well as a regime where a new mechanism for gain emerges. While in the long wavelength limit we find a tunable form of Fresnel drag effect of light in moving media, gain enables nonreciprocal broadband amplification that could be realised in graphene.
11:45 - 12:00ID: 136
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TOM 5 Resonant Nanophotonics
On the experimental realization of a 1D topological chain and PT-symmetry with coupled organic microcavities
Karla Roszeitis1, Markas Sudzius1, Rebekka Koch2, Jan Carl Budich3, Karl Leo1
1Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) and Institute for Applied Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany; 2Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94485, 1090 GL Amsterdam, The Netherlands; 3Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany
We present a combined theoretical and experimental approach towards a parity-time symmetric system with coupled organic microcavities. We focus on a tight binding model for calculating 1D topological chains and determining constraints for topological non-trivial behavior. Experimentally, we have realized a model system with balanced gain-loss, which we drive over a broad range of optical pump powers from linear to coherent emission regimes. Analysis of exposure characteristics has shown discrepancies in input-output dependencies in the measurements, where gain and loss are spatially swapped, which is specific to parity-time symmetric systems.
12:00 - 12:15ID: 334
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TOM 5 Resonant Nanophotonics
Gaussian regularization for resonant states
Brian Stout1, Ross McPhedran2, Remi Colom3, Niocolas Bonod1
1Aix-Marseille Université, Institut Fresnel, France; 2IPOS, School of Physics, University of Sydney, 2006, Australia; 3Zuse Institute Berlin, Takustra{\ss}e 7, 14195 Berlin, Germany
We present the merits of a Gaussian regularization of the Resonant States (RSs) of open systems which provides analytical results for the inner product integrals of the RSs. After including the appropriate non-resonant contributions, analytic calculations for spherical scatterers with this technique are shown to completely retrieve the results of exact Mie theory.
12:15 - 12:30ID: 417
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TOM 5 Resonant Nanophotonics
Time-domain formulation of electromagnetic scattering based on a polarization mode expansion and the principle of least action
Carlo Forestiere, Giovanni Miano
University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
A fresh approach to the full-wave analysis of time-evolution of the polarization induced in the electromagnetic scattering from dispersive particles is presented. It is grounded on the Hopfield model for the polarization field, the expansion of the polarization field in terms of static longitudinal and transverse modes of the particle, the expansion of the radiation field in transverse wave modes of free space, and the principle of least action. The characteristics of the temporal evolution of the mode amplitudes are found as the particle size varies, including the impulse response.
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