{"id":89,"date":"2023-11-30T12:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T11:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T15:01:21","slug":"erc-timelight","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/erc-timelight\/","title":{"rendered":"ERC &#8211; TIMELIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-259 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Logo03_vect-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Logo03_vect-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Logo03_vect-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Logo03_vect-1024x376.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Logo03_vect-768x282.jpg 768w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Logo03_vect-1536x565.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/01\/Logo03_vect-2048x753.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TIMELIGHT is an ERC-funded research project focused on studying time-varying nanophotonics for new regimes of light-matter Interactions. Controlling light and its interaction with matter at the nanoscale is one of the major aims of current Science, with applications ranging from energy-efficient photonic-based communications, quantum information processing, or high precision sensors. Owing to the hybrid light-matter modes supported by nanophotonic structures, from THz and IR polaritons in 2D materials to optical plasmonic resonances, nanophotonics offers an ideal platform for an exquisite control of light-matter interactions even at room temperature. Additionally, light concentrated at the nanoscale is a natural playground for quantum electro-dynamical (QED) processes, whereby light-matter interactions reveal their quantum nature. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-171 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/03\/timelight.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/03\/timelight.png 840w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/03\/timelight-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/03\/timelight-768x366.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TIMELIGHT proposes the use of time-modulated media, whose optical parameters (e.g., permittivity) are dynamically modulated by an external actuation, to realise fundamentally new non-Hermitian and non-reciprocal QED effects.This approach can overcome the limitations of conventional approaches to nanophotonics-based QED that arise from two fundamental principles: energy conservation and reciprocity. This would enable non-photon conserving devices and one-way channels, opening the door to a compact route to quantum photonic circuits.<\/p>\n<p>However, conventional approaches to nanophotonics-based QED are limited by two fundamental principles: energy conservation and reciprocity. Overcoming these limitations would enable non-photon conserving devices and one-way channels, opening the door to a compact route to quantum photonic circuits. TIMELIGHT proposes the use of time-modulated media, whose optical parameters (e.g., permittivity) are dynamically modulated by an external actuation, to realise fundamentally new non-Hermitian and non-reciprocal QED effects. This theoretical project roots in recent experimental advances that have shown unprecedentedly large and fast modulations of nanophotonic structures<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-128 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/03\/LOGO_ERC-FLAG_FP-300x212.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/03\/LOGO_ERC-FLAG_FP-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/03\/LOGO_ERC-FLAG_FP-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/members.ifimac.uam.es\/parroyohuidobro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2024\/03\/LOGO_ERC-FLAG_FP.png 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIMELIGHT is an ERC-funded research project focused on studying time-varying nanophotonics for new regimes of light-matter Interactions. 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