Optical-Cycle Dynamic Photonics with Transparent Conducting Oxides
Analysis
Key Takeaways
- •Demonstrates oscillatory dynamics in TCOs on a few optical cycle timescales.
- •Proposes an inverse-designed multilayer cavity for supporting the oscillatory behavior.
- •Achieves a Δn response time as short as 9 fs using thermionic carrier injection.
- •Establishes TCO-based thermionic carrier injection as a route to time-varying photonic media.
- •Enables time-reflection, time-refraction, and related dynamic phenomena from the visible to the infrared.
“The resulting acceptor layer achieves a striking Δn response time as short as 9 fs, approaching a single optical cycle, and is further tunable to sub-cycle timescales.”