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Terahertz technology is largely dependent upon planar on-chip antennas that radiate downwards through the substrate, and so an effective means to interface these antennas with integrated waveguides is an attractive prospect. We present a…

Magnonic crystals (MCs) are emerging spintronic metamaterials capable of manipulating transmission properties of magnons, the quanta of spin waves. Due to the complex relationship between lattice geometry and magnonic band dispersion, it…

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We report fabrication of optical waveguides embedded in oxidised porous silicon in a mask-less process. Patterned pore-filling was attained by means of inkjet printing, enabling lateral modification of the waveguide's index of refraction…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Alexander Kellarev , Shlomo Ruschin

In this paper, we present a tailored lens and a tailored reflector in order to reduce the large beam divergence inherent to Orbital Angular Momentum waves (OAM waves-Vortex waves) that are generated by an Uniform Circular Patch Antenna…

Low-loss single-mode optical waveguide fabrication process in extra-white soda-lime glass is demonstrated. Waveguiding structures are formed in bulk substrates employing femtosecond laser writing technology. The combination of a slit…

Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguides with different geometries have been employed to design various integrated optical components. Reducing the bending radius of the SOI waveguides with low bending loss is essential in minimizing the…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-22 S. Hadi Badri , M. M. Gilarlue , S. G. Gavgani

In superconducting electronics, the ability to control the frequency of microwave wave packets is crucial for several applications, such as the operation of superconducting quantum processors and the readout of superconducting sensors. We…

We introduce a new method for inverse design of nanophotonic devices which guarantees that resulting designs satisfy strict length scale constraints - including minimum width and spacing constraints required by commercial semiconductor…

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Localization and reconstruction of small defects in acoustic or electromagnetic waveguides is of crucial interest in nondestructive evaluation of structures. The aim of this work is to present a new multi-frequency inversion method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Eric Bonnetier , Angèle Niclas , Laurent Seppecher , Grégory Vial

A promising solution for scalable integrated optics of trapped-ion quantum processors are curved waveguides guiding visible light within sapphire bulk material. To the best of our knowledge, no curved waveguides were investigated in…

The multimode waveguide bends (MWBs) with very compact sizes are the key building blocks in the applications of different mode-division multiplexing (MDM) systems. To further increase the transmission capacity, the silicon multimode…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-09 Juanli Wang , Shangsen Sun , Runsen Zhang , Fengchun Zhang , Ning Zhu

We design a resistive heater optimized for efficient and low-loss optical phase modulation in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide and characterize the fabricated devices. Modulation is achieved by flowing current perpendicular to a new…

A general conformal mapping is proposed to design omnidirectional broadband wave absorbers by transformation method. When applied to electromagnetic (EM) and acoustic waves, the existing material parameters of the EM and acoustic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-05-25 Zheng Chang , Gengkai Hu

In this paper we present an inverse-designed 3D-printed all-dielectric stretchable millimeter wave metalens with a tunable focal distance. Computational inverse-design method is used to design a flat metalens made of disconnected building…

We present a methodology to perform inverse analysis on reconfigurable topological insulators for flexural waves in plate-like structures. First the unit cell topology of a phononic plate is designed, which offers two-fold degeneracy in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Chuong Nguyen , S. S. Nanthakumar , Xiaoying Zhuang , Ludovic Chamoin , Yabin Jin , Timon Rabczuk

The concept of metasurface has recently opened new exciting directions to engineer the refraction properties in both optical and acoustic media. Metasurfaces are typically designed by assembling arrays of sub-wavelength anisotropic…

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We present a framework for achieving broadband perfect wave transmission in complex systems by optimizing symmetric disordered media via inverse design. We show that leveraging symmetry of complex media reduces the optimization's complexity…

Mode-division-multiplexing (MDM) is attractive as a means to increase the link capacity of a single wavelength for optical interconnects via the use of multiple mode-channels in multimode bus waveguide.In order to route the data in MDM…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-19 Hao Wu , Chenlei Li , Lijia Song , Hon-Ki Tsang , John E Bowers , Daoxin Dai

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…

In this paper we report suspended silicon waveguides operating at a wavelength of 7.67 mm with a propagation loss of 3.1 ? 0.3 dB/cm. To our knowledge this is the first demonstration of low loss silicon waveguides at such a long wavelength,…