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Efficient coupling between integrated optical waveguides and optical fibers is essential to the success of integrated photonics. While many solutions exist, perfectly vertical grating couplers which scatter light out of a waveguide in the…

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A computationally-fast inverse design method for nanophotonic structures is presented. The method is based on two complementary convex optimization problems which modify the dielectric structure and resonant field respectively. The design…

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The demand for integrated photonic chips combining the generation and manipulation of quantum states of light is steadily increasing, driven by the need for compact and scalable platforms for quantum information technologies. While photonic…

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) offer tremendous advantages in bandwidth, parallelism, and energy efficiency, making them essential for emerging applications in artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance computing (HPC), sensing,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hongjian Zhou , Pingchuan Ma , Jiaqi Gu

Controlling the flow of broadband electromagnetic energy at the nanoscale remains a critical challenge in optoelectronics. Surface plasmon polaritons (or plasmons) provide subwavelength localization of light, but are affected by significant…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-15 Maxim S. Elizarov , Yuri S. Kivshar , A. Fratalocchi

Inverse design techniques in the context of nanophotonics have helped in discovery of compact and counter-intuitive structures/shapes. We introduce the concept of spectral domain inverse design to search through the optical trade-space…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-12 Ashwin K. Boddeti , Abubakr Alabassi , Vaneet Aggarwal , Zubin Jacob

The spectra of silicon integrated waveguides are tailored to process analog computing (i.e.,differential and integral) in optical domain with huge bandwidth.With the theory of signal and system, we design some silicon integrated devices to…

Optics · Physics 2014-09-10 Jianji Dong , Ting Yang , Aoleng Zheng , Xinliang Zhang

Nanophotonic devices manipulate light at sub-wavelength scales, enabling tasks such as light concentration, routing, and filtering. Designing these devices is a challenging task. Traditionally, solving this problem has relied on…

Silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC) builds on the demand for a low cost approach from established silicon-based manufacturing infrastructure traditionally built for electronics. Besides its natural abundance, silicon has desirable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 James Y. S. Tan , Shawn Xie Wu , Salih Yanikgonul , Chao Li , Patrick Guo-Qiang Lo

Deep learning in the context of nano-photonics is mostly discussed in terms of its potential for inverse design of photonic devices or nanostructures. Many of the recent works on machine-learning inverse design are highly specific, and the…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-03 Peter R. Wiecha , Arnaud Arbouet , Christian Girard , Otto L. Muskens

High-performance programmable silicon photonic circuits are considered to be a critical part of next generation architectures for optical processing, photonic quantum circuits and neural networks. Low-loss optical phase change materials…

Single-photon avalanche detectors (SPADs) have enabled various applications in emerging photonic quantum information technologies in recent years. However, despite many efforts to improve SPAD's performance, the design of SPADs remained…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Boyang Zhang , Zhe Li , Zhongju Wang , Yang Yu , Hark Hoe Tan , Chennupati Jagadish , Daoyi Dong , Lan Fu

Silicon photonics technology enables compact, low-power and cost-effective optical microsystems on a chip by leveraging the materials and advanced fabrication methods developed over decades for integrated silicon electronics. Silicon…

Photonic integrated circuits utilize planar waveguides to process light on a chip, encompassing functions like generation, routing, modulation, and detection. Similar to the advancements in the electronics industry, photonics research is…

Scalable photonic optimization holds the promise of significantly enhancing the performance of diffractive lenses across a wide range of photonic applications. However, the high computational cost of conventional full three-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-26 Marco Gerhardt , Sungkun Hong , Moosung Lee

In the search for improved computational capabilities, conventional microelectronic computers are facing various problems arising from the miniaturization and concentration of active electronics devices (1-2). Therefore, researchers have…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 Miguel Camacho , Brian Edwards , Nader Engheta

Integrated photonics is increasingly demanded in applications such as large-scale data centers, intelligent sensing, and next-generation wireless communications, where compact, multifunctional, and energy-efficient components are essential.…

A set of grating couplers that convert plane waves into odd pairs of plasmons supported by extremely thin layers of doped indium tin oxide is designed. The inverse design approach is implemented to improve the efficiency of ordinary…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-15 Marius Puplauskis , Ivan A. Pshenichnyuk

Spectrum manipulation is central to photonic systems, where advanced computing and sensing applications often demand highly complex spectral responses to achieve high throughput. Conventional methods for enhancing spectral complexity…

Emerging two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer a promising platform for on-chip integrated photonics because of their unique optical and electronic properties. Their naturally passivated surfaces make them highly…