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OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 30, 期 26, 页码 47933-47941出版社
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.480199
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- DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Simons Foundation
This work investigates wave scattering at time-interfaces involving chiral media and demonstrates the effect of temporal optical activity. The study shows that a propagating wave can be split into two orthogonal circular polarization waves oscillating at different frequencies upon a chiral time-interface. The analysis also considers the effect of material dispersion and highlights opportunities for the emergence of multiple scattered waves from the time-interface and interference.
Time-interfaces, at which the optical properties of a medium undergo abrupt and spatially uniform changes, have attracted surging interest in optics and wave physics. In this work, we study wave scattering at time-interfaces involving chiral media. Dual to spatial interfaces involving chiral media, we show that a propagating wave is split upon a chiral time-interface into two orthogonal circular polarization waves oscillating at different frequencies. We formulate the temporal scattering boundary-value problem at such time-interfaces, and then demonstrate the effect of temporal optical activity through a chiral time-slab. The effect of material dispersion is also analyzed, highlighting interesting opportunities in which multiple scattered waves emerge form the time-interface and interfere. Our results pave the way towards time-metamaterials encompassing chirality as an additional degree of freedom for wave manipulation, offering opportunities for temporal circular dichroism and negative refraction at time-interfaces.
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