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Optically Incoherent Photonic Mutual Information
Francis J. Chen, Alessio Amaolo, Pengning Chao +3
The paper presents a unified framework that links subwavelength electromagnetic wave propagation to Shannon mutual information, enabling the design of photonic front ends optimized…
Indexed singular value bounds on scattering operators: How many channels can a photonic device support?
Paul Virally, Pengning Chao, Alessio Amaolo +2
Spectral properties of scattering operators, and their dependence on geometry, are of crucial importance to photonic design, enabling low-rank approximations and improved understan…
Inferring Structure via Duality for Photonic Inverse Design
Sean Molesky, Pengning Chao, Alessio Amaolo +1
Led by a result derived from Sion's minimax theorem concerning constraint violation in quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) with at least one constraint bounding th…
Bounds as blueprints: towards optimal and accelerated photonic inverse design
Pengning Chao, Alessio Amaolo, Sean Molesky +1
Our ability to structure materials at the nanoscale has, and continues to, enable key advances in optical control. In pursuit of optimal photonic designs, substantial progress has…
Radiator Tailoring for Enhanced Performance in InAs-Based Near-Field Thermophotovoltaics
Mathieu Giroux, Sean Molesky, Raphael St-Gelais +1
Near-field thermophotovoltaics (NFTPV) systems have significant potential for waste heat recovery applications, with both high theoretical efficiency and power density, up to 40% a…
Maximum Shannon Capacity of Photonic Structures
Alessio Amaolo, Pengning Chao, Benjamin Strekha +4
Information transfer through electromagnetic waves is an important problem that touches a variety of technologically relevant applications, including computing and telecommunicatio…