Towards photonic time-crystals: Observation of a femtosecond time-boundary in the refractive index

Eran Lustig; Soham Saha; Eliyahu Bordo; Clayton DeVault; Sarah N. Chowdhury; Yonatan Sharabi; Alexandra Boltasseva; Oren Cohen; Vladimir M. Shalaev; Mordechai Segev

Towards photonic time-crystals: Observation of a femtosecond time-boundary in the refractive index

Eran Lustig, Soham Saha, Eliyahu Bordo, Clayton DeVault, Sarah N. Chowdhury, Yonatan Sharabi, Alexandra Boltasseva, Oren Cohen, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Mordechai Segev

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We demonstrate experimentally a time-boundary for photons in a dielectric medium, analogous to a spatial boundary. Such abrupt temporal changes in the permittivity are necessary for observing time-reflections, photonic time-crystals and momentum bandgaps.

Original language	English
Article number	FF2H.1
Journal	Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
State	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO: QELS 2021 - Part of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 9 May 2021 → 14 May 2021

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Mechanics of Materials

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Towards photonic time-crystals: Observation of a femtosecond time-boundary in the refractive index

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