A TEMPORAL photonic crystal?

Seminar
Optics Seminar
Speaker
Prof. Peter Halevi, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE), Tonantzintla, Puebla 72000, Mexico
Date
10/04/2013 - 16:00 - 15:00Add to Calendar 2013-04-10 15:00:00 2013-04-10 16:00:00 A TEMPORAL photonic crystal? Thousands of papers were published about photonic crystals, namely artificial composites with spatial periodicity. In this talk I will explore the properties and possible realization of temporal photonic crystals (TPCs) with periodicity in time. Specifically, I assume that either the permittivity and/or permeability of a (spatially uniform) medium is a periodic function of time. This gives rise to interesting behavior such as parametric resonances that depend on the thicknes of the dynamic slab and to pulse transmission with faster-than-light partial pulses (that correspond to harmonics of the modulation frequency). Finally, I will show that TPCs can be realized in the microwave regime by means of transmission lines with capacitors (varactors) and/or inductors that are temporally periodic.     Nano center, 9th floor seminar room Department of Physics physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Nano center, 9th floor seminar room
Abstract

Thousands of papers were published about photonic crystals, namely artificial composites with spatial periodicity. In this talk I will explore the properties and possible realization of temporal photonic crystals (TPCs) with periodicity in time. Specifically, I assume that either the permittivity and/or permeability of a (spatially uniform) medium is a periodic function of time. This gives rise to interesting behavior such as parametric resonances that depend on the thicknes of the dynamic slab and to pulse transmission with faster-than-light partial pulses (that correspond to harmonics of the modulation frequency). Finally, I will show that TPCs can be realized in the microwave regime by means of transmission lines with capacitors (varactors) and/or inductors that are temporally periodic.
 
 

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