Broadband Nonreciprocal Amplification in Luminal Metamaterials.

Time has emerged as a new degree of freedom for metamaterials, promising new pathways in wave control. However, electromagnetism suffers from limitations in the modulation speed of material parameters. Here we argue that these limitations can be circumvented by introducing a traveling-wave modulation, with the same phase velocity of the waves. We show how luminal metamaterials generalize the parametric oscillator concept, realize giant broadband nonreciprocity, achieve efficient one-way amplification, pulse compression, and harmonic generation, and propose a realistic implementation in double-layer graphene.

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