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most citedExtreme Broadband Transparent Optical Phase Change Materials for High-Performance Nonvolatile Photonics

730 citations · 1.7k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

NEO-PGA: Nonvolatile electro-optically programmable gate array

Rui Chen, Andrew Tang, Jayita Dutta +4

Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) offer a unique opportunity to create a flexible platform, akin to electronic field programmable gate array (FPGA). These photonic P…

physics.optics2024

Low-loss multilevel operation using lossy PCM-integrated silicon photonics

Rui Chen, Virat Tara, Jayita Dutta +3

Chalcogenide phase-change materials (PCMs) offer new paradigms for programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) thanks to their zero static energy and significant refractive in…

physics.optics2023★ 3 cited

Non-volatile Phase-only Transmissive Spatial Light Modulators

Zhuoran Fang, Rui Chen, Johannes E. Fröch +14

Free-space modulation of light is crucial for many applications, from light detection and ranging to virtual or augmented reality. Traditional means of modulating free-space light…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Fast and energy-efficient non-volatile III-V-on-silicon photonic phase shifter based on memristors

Zhuoran Fang, Bassem Tossoun, Antoine Descos +5

Silicon photonics has evolved from lab research to commercial products in the past decade as it plays an increasingly crucial role in data communication for next-generation data ce…

physics.optics2023★ 3 cited

High-Speed and Energy-Efficient Non-Volatile Silicon Photonic Memory Based on Heterogeneously Integrated Memresonator

Bassem Tossoun, Di Liang, Stanley Cheung +4

Recently, interest in programmable photonics integrated circuits has grown as a potential hardware framework for deep neural networks, quantum computing, and field programmable arr…

physics.optics2023★ 148 cited

Non-volatile electrically programmable integrated photonics with a 5-bit operation

Rui Chen, Zhuoran Fang, Christopher Perez +7

Scalable programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can potentially transform the current state of classical and quantum optical information processing. However, traditional…

physics.app-ph2022★ 103 cited

Broadband nonvolatile electrically programmable silicon photonic switches

Rui Chen, Zhuoran Fang, Johannes E. Fröch +3

Programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have recently gained significant interest due to their potential in creating next-generation technologies ranging from artificial n…

quant-ph2021

Photonic Topological Baths for Quantum Simulation

Abhi Saxena, Yueyang Chen, Zhuoran Fang +1

Quantum simulation involves engineering devices to implement different Hamiltonians and measuring their quantized spectra to study quantum many-body systems. Recent developments in…

physics.optics2021★ 13 cited

1D self-healing beams in integrated silicon photonics

Zhuoran Fang, Rui Chen, Albert Ryou +1

Since the first experimental observation of optical Airy beams, various applications ranging from particle and cell micromanipulation to laser micromachining have exploited their n…

physics.optics2021★ 198 cited

Non-volatile reconfigurable integrated photonics enabled by broadband low-loss phase change material

Zhuoran Fang, Jiajiu Zheng, Abhi Saxena +3

Phase change materials (PCMs) have long been used as a storage medium in rewritable compact disk and later in random access memory. In recent years, the integration of PCMs with na…

physics.app-ph2020

Black phosphorus van der Waals heterostructures light emitting diodes for mid-infrared silicon photonics

Tian-Yun Chang, Yueyang Chen, De-In Luo +9

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on III-V/II-VI materials have delivered a compelling performance in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) region, which enabled wide-ranging applications, in…

physics.app-ph2019★ 274 cited

Nonvolatile electrically reconfigurable integrated photonic switch

Jiajiu Zheng, Zhuoran Fang, Changming Wu +8

Reconfigurability of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has become increasingly important due to the growing demands for electronic-photonic systems on a chip driven by emerging a…

physics.app-ph2018★ 730 cited

Extreme Broadband Transparent Optical Phase Change Materials for High-Performance Nonvolatile Photonics

Yifei Zhang, Jeffrey B. Chou, Junying Li +18

Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs), a unique group of materials featuring drastic optical property contrast upon solid-state phase transition, have found widespread adoption i…

physics.optics2017★ 197 cited

Ultra-thin, High-efficiency Mid-Infrared Transmissive Huygens Meta-Optics

Hanyu Zheng, Jun Ding, Li Zhang +12

The mid-infrared (mid-IR) is a strategically important band for numerous applications ranging from night vision to biochemical sensing. Unlike visible or near-infrared optical part…