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Quasinormal modes in dispersive photonic time crystals

C. M. Hooper, I. R. Hooper & S. A. R. Horsley

Physical Review A · 113, 043526

Summary

How can transient resonances of a time-periodic dispersive cavity be described?

Introduces Floquet quasinormal modes and studies their symmetry transitions and limiting behaviour.

Connects phase locking and exceptional points to temporal modulation.

Commentary

The theoretical results do not establish experimental optical modulation at the assumed parameters.

Unites open-cavity modes with driven-media theory, extending the ordinary static-QNM picture.

Interpretation and connections in this note, separate from the authors’ reported findings.

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Uses macroscopic QED and complex coordinate transformations to account for radiative and material loss.

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