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physics.optics2026

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…

physics.optics2026

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…

math.OC2025

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…

physics.optics2025

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…

physics.optics2024

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…

physics.optics2024

Physical limits on Raman scattering: the critical role of pump and signal co-design

Alessio Amaolo, Pengning Chao, Thomas J. Maldonado +2

We present a method for deriving limits on Raman scattering in structured media and exploit it to constrain the maximum Raman signal resulting from a planewave incident on either a…