Bandgap engineering to control amplification in photonic time crystals

Date Issued
2022-01-01
Author(s)
Sadhukhan, Snehashis
Ghosh, Somnath
Abstract
We present an unconventional way to manipulate light dynamics in photonic time crystals by introducing isolated temporal defects as a new degree of control over the amplification of propagating pulse with momentum lying within bandgap.