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ArticleScience advances2025

A gain route to reversed Cherenkov radiation.

Ruoxi Chen, Zheng Gong, Zun Wang, Xiangfeng Xi, Bowen Zhang, Yi Yang, Baile Zhang, Ido Kaminer, Hongsheng Chen, Xiao Lin

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  1. Transverse-Electric Cherenkov Radiation for TeV-Scale Particle Detection.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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Ruoxi ChenInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Electromagnetic Control and Advanced Electronic Integration, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0009-0003-7233-4413
Zheng GongInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Electromagnetic Control and Advanced Electronic Integration, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0009-0009-7164-1933
Zun WangChu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0009-0004-4849-7893
Xiangfeng XiInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Electromagnetic Control and Advanced Electronic Integration, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0009-0005-3126-0766
Bowen ZhangInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Electromagnetic Control and Advanced Electronic Integration, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6991-5039
Yi YangDepartment of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 999077, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2879-4968
Baile ZhangDivision of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore.ORCID 0000-0003-1673-5901
Ido KaminerDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-2691-1892
Hongsheng ChenInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Electromagnetic Control and Advanced Electronic Integration, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5735-9781
Xiao LinInterdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Electromagnetic Control and Advanced Electronic Integration, College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1833-1065

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In his landmark paper from 1968, Veselago showed that Cherenkov radiation can be reversed in materials with a negative index of refraction, inspiring substantial research into such materials in what became one of the cornerstone concepts of the field of metamaterials. Following and ongoing investigations of reversed Cherenkov radiation considered it impossible to occur from a homogeneous isotropic slab with a positive refractive index. Here, we break this long-held belief by finding the emergence of reversed Cherenkov radiation from a positive-index isotropic slab by exploiting optical gain. We find precise conditions under which the backward-propagating Cherenkov radiation is maintained while the forward-propagating one is suppressed. Counterintuitively, the intensity and the angular spread of reversed Cherenkov radiation can be made robust to the slab thickness. Under this scenario, increasing the optical gain could decrease the intensity and increase the radiation angular spread.

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