Floquet–Mie Theory for Time-Varying Dispersive Spheres
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2023-03
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15
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LASER AND PHOTONICS REVIEWS, Volume 17, issue 3
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Exploring the interaction of light with time-varying media is an intellectual challenge that, in addition to fundamental aspects, provides a pathway to multiple promising applications. Time modulation constitutes here a fundamental handle to control light on entirely different grounds. That holds particularly for complex systems simultaneously structured in space and time. However, a realistic description of time-varying materials requires considering their material dispersion. The combination thereof has barely been considered but is crucial since dispersion accompanies materials suitable for dynamic modulation. As a canonical scattering problem from which many general insights can be obtained, a self-consistent analytical theory of light scattering by a sphere made from a time-varying material exemplarily assumed to have a Lorentzian dispersion is developed and applied. The eigensolutions of Maxwell's equations in the bulk are discussed and a dedicated Mie theory is presented. The proposed theory is verified with full-wave simulations. Peculiar effects are disclosed, such as energy transfer from the time-modulation subsystem to the electromagnetic field, amplifying carefully structured incident fields. Since many phenomena can be studied on analytical grounds with the proposed formalism, it represents an indispensable tool that enables exploration of electromagnetic phenomena in time-varying and spatially structured finite objects of other geometries.Description
Funding Information: G.P., A.L., and T.K. contributed equally to this work. The authors acknowledge support by the German Research Foundation through Germany's Excellence Strategy via the Excellence Cluster 3D Matter Made to Order (EXC‐2082/1 ‐ 390761711). A.L. acknowledges support from the Max Planck School of Photonics, which is supported by BMBF, Max Planck Society, and Fraunhofer Society and from the Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics (KSOP). T.K. acknowledges support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through the Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers. R.A. acknowledges support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through the Feodor Lynen (Return) Research Fellowship. G.P. and S.T. acknowledge partial funding from the Academy of Finland (project 330260). V.A. and S.F. acknowledge the support of an MURI project from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant No. FA9550‐21‐1‐0244). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Authors. Laser & Photonics Reviews published by Wiley-VCH GmbH.
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light–matter interactions, Mie scattering, time-modulation, time-varying media
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Ptitcyn, G, Lamprianidis, A, Karamanos, T, Asadchy, V, Alaee, R, Müller, M, Albooyeh, M, Mirmoosa, M S, Fan, S, Tretyakov, S & Rockstuhl, C 2023, ' Floquet–Mie Theory for Time-Varying Dispersive Spheres ', LASER AND PHOTONICS REVIEWS, vol. 17, no. 3, 2100683 . https://doi.org/10.1002/lpor.202100683