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The Artificial Intelligence models pose serious challenges in intensive computing and high-bandwidth communication for conventional electronic circuit-based computing clusters. Silicon photonic technologies, owing to their high speed, low…

The scientific community has witnessed tremendous expansion of research on layered (i.e. two-dimensional, 2D) materials, with increasing recent focus on applications to photonics. Layered materials are particularly exciting for manipulating…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Akshay Singh , Seong Soon Jo , Yifei Li , Changming Wu , Mo Li , R. Jaramillo

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

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

This work describes our vision and proposal for the design of next generation photonic devices based on custom-designed semiconductor nanowires. The integration of multi-million-atom electronic structure and optical simulations with the…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-25 Muhammad Usman

High Q-factor narrow-band absorption exhibits high spectral selectivity enabling high-sensitive photodetectors, sensors and thermal emitters. All-dielectric metasurfaces are widely regarded as excellent candidates for giving rise to such…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-25 Sreeraj Rajan Warrier , Jayasri Dontabhaktuni

Here, we present a new approach based on manifold learning for knowledge discovery and inverse design with minimal complexity in photonic nanostructures. Our approach builds on studying sub-manifolds of responses of a class of…

Active optical metasurfaces are rapidly emerging as a major frontier in photonics research, development, and commercialization. They promise compact, light-weight, and energy-efficient reconfigurable optical systems with unprecedented…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-19 Tian Gu , Hyun Jung Kim , Clara Rivero-Baleine , Juejun Hu

We challenge the current thinking and approach to the design of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for applications in communications, quantum information and sensing. The standard PICs are based on directional couplers, that provide a…

Quantum metaphotonics has emerged as a cutting-edge subfield of meta-optics employing subwavelength resonators and their planar structures such as metasurfaces to generate, manipulate, and detect quantum states of light. It holds a great…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-19 Jihua Zhang , Yuri Kivshar

Integrated quantum photonics, i.e. the generation, manipulation and detection of quantum states of light in integrated photonic chips, is revolutionizing the field of quantum information in all applications, from communications to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Giacomo Corrielli , Andrea Crespi , Roberto Osellame

Designing nanophotonic devices with minimal human intervention has gained substantial attention due to the complexity and precision required in modern optical technologies. While inverse design techniques typically rely on conventional…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-10 Amirhossein Fallah , Constantine Sideris

Topological photonics has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to the unique opportunities it provides to manipulate light in a robust way immune to disorder and defects. Up to now, diverse photonic platforms, rich physical…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-20 Zhihao Lan , Menglin L. N. Chen , Fei Gao , Shuang Zhang , Wei E. I. Sha

The rapidly increasing demands for computational throughput, bandwidth, and memory capacity fueled by breakthroughs in machine learning pose substantial challenges for conventional electronic computing platforms. For digital scaling to keep…

Inverse design aims to design the input variables of a physical system to optimize a specified objective function, typically formulated as a search or optimization problem. However, in 3D domains, the design space grows exponentially,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuze Hao , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Plasmonic nanoantennas with suitable far-field characteristics are of huge interest for utilization in optical wireless links, inter-/intra-chip communications, LiDARs, and photonic integrated circuits due to their exceptional modal…

We propose an approach to engineer quartic metamaterials starting from the desired photonic states. We apply our method to the design of the high-k asymptotics of metamaterials, extreme non-reciprocity and complex bi-anisotropic media.

Optics · Physics 2018-04-04 Thomas Mulkey , Jimmy Dillies , Maxim Durach

The discovery of advanced materials is the cornerstone of human technological development and progress. The structures of materials and their corresponding properties are essentially the result of a complex interplay of multiple degrees of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-21 Xiao-Qi Han , Xin-De Wang , Meng-Yuan Xu , Zhen Feng , Bo-Wen Yao , Peng-Jie Guo , Ze-Feng Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu

Topological states in photonics offer novel prospects for guiding and manipulating photons and facilitate the development of modern optical components for a variety of applications. Over the past few years, photonic topology physics has…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Robin Singh , Anuradha Murthy Agarwal , Brian W Anthony

In the field of magnonics, which uses magnons, the quanta of spin waves, for energy-efficient data processing, significant progress has been made leveraging the capabilities of the inverse design concept. This approach involves defining a…