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20162022
most citedOn-chip integrated laser-driven particle accelerator

203 citations · 619 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Universal visible emitters in nanoscale integrated photonics

Grisha Spektor, David Carlson, Zach Newman +8

Visible wavelengths of light control the quantum matter of atoms and molecules and are foundational for quantum technologies, including computers, sensors, and clocks. The developm…

physics.optics2021

Inverse-Designed Photonic Crystal Circuits for Optical Beam Steering

Dries Vercruysse, Neil V. Sapra, Ki Youl Yang +1

The ability of photonic crystal waveguides (PCWs) to confine and slow down light makes them an ideal component to enhance the performance of various photonic devices, such as optic…

physics.app-ph2019

Inverse-designed photonics for semiconductor foundries

Alexander Y. Piggott, Eric Y. Ma, Logan Su +7

Silicon photonics is becoming a leading technology in photonics, displacing traditional fiber optic transceivers in long-haul and intra-data-center links and enabling new applicati…

physics.app-ph2019★ 6 cited

Nanophotonic Inverse Design with SPINS: Software Architecture and Practical Considerations

Logan Su, Dries Vercruysse, Jinhie Skarda +3

A computational nanophotonic design library for gradient-based optimization called SPINS is presented. Borrowing the concept of computational graphs, SPINS is a design framework th…

physics.app-ph2019★ 203 cited

On-chip integrated laser-driven particle accelerator

Neil V. Sapra, Ki Youl Yang, Dries Vercruysse +8

Particle accelerators represent an indispensable tool in science and industry. However, the size and cost of conventional radio-frequency accelerators limit the utility and reach o…

physics.app-ph2018★ 167 cited

Inverse-Designed Diamond Photonics

Constantin Dory, Dries Vercruysse, Ki Youl Yang +10

Diamond hosts optically active color centers with great promise in quantum computation, networking, and sensing. Realization of such applications is contingent upon the integration…

physics.app-ph2018

Inverse design and demonstration of broadband grating couplers

Neil V. Sapra, Dries Vercruysse, Logan Su +4

We present a gradient-based optimization strategy to design broadband grating couplers. Using this method, we are able to reach, and often surpass, a user-specified target bandwidt…

physics.app-ph2017★ 140 cited

Fully-automated optimization of grating couplers

Logan Su, Rahul Trivedi, Neil V. Sapra +3

We present a gradient-based algorithm to design general 1D grating couplers without any human input from start to finish, including a choice of initial condition. We show that we c…

physics.optics2017★ 44 cited

On-Chip Laser Power Delivery System for Dielectric Laser Accelerators

Tyler W. Hughes, Si Tan, Zhexin Zhao +12

We propose an on-chip optical power delivery system for dielectric laser accelerators based on a fractal 'tree-branch' dielectric waveguide network. This system replaces experiment…

physics.app-ph2017★ 6 cited

Inverse design and demonstration of a compact on-chip narrowband three-channel wavelength demultiplexer

Logan Su, Alexander Y. Piggott, Neil V. Sapra +2

In wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) schemes, splitters must be used to combine and separate different wavelengths. Conventional splitters are fairly large with footprints in…

quant-ph2016★ 26 cited

An on-chip architecture for self-homodyned nonclassical light

Kevin A. Fischer, Yousif A. Kelaita, Neil V. Sapra +4

In the last decade, there has been remarkable progress on the practical integration of on-chip quantum photonic devices yet quantum state generators remain an outstanding challenge…

physics.optics2016★ 25 cited

Tuning the Photon Statistics of a Strongly Coupled Nanophotonic System

Constantin Dory, Kevin A. Fischer, Kai Müller +7

We investigate the dynamics of single- and multi-photon emission from detuned strongly coupled systems based on the quantum-dot-photonic-crystal resonator platform. Transmitting li…