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most citedPhysical limits on electromagnetic response

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physics.optics2022

Maximum Electromagnetic Local Density of States via Material Structuring

Pengning Chao, Rodrick Kuate Defo, Sean Molesky +1

The electromagnetic local density of states (LDOS) is crucial to many aspects of photonics engineering, from enhancing emission of photon sources to radiative heat transfer and pho…

physics.optics20211 cited

Physical limits on electromagnetic response

Pengning Chao, Benjamin Strekha, Rodrick Kuate Defo +2

Photonic devices play an increasingly important role in advancing physics and engineering, and while improvements in nanofabrication and computational methods have driven dramatic…

physics.optics2021

-Operator Limits on Optical Communication: Metaoptics, Computation, and Input-Output Transformations

Sean Molesky, Pengning Chao, Jewel Mohajan +3

We present an optimization framework based on Lagrange duality and the scattering operator of electromagnetism to construct limits on the possible features that may be…

physics.optics2020

Hierarchical Mean-Field Operator Bounds on Electromagnetic Scattering: Upper Bounds on Near-Field Radiative Purcell Enhancement

Sean Molesky, Pengning Chao, Alejandro W. Rodriguez

We show how the central equality of scattering theory, the definition of the operator, can be used to generate hierarchies of mean-field constraints that act as natura…

physics.app-ph2020

Inverse-designed photon extractors for optically addressable defect qubits

Srivatsa Chakravarthi, Pengning Chao, Christian Pederson +6

Solid-state defect qubit systems with spin-photon interfaces show great promise for quantum information and metrology applications. Photon collection efficiency, however, presents…

physics.optics2020

Global operator bounds on electromagnetic scattering: Upper bounds on far-field cross sections

Sean Molesky, Pengning Chao, Weiliang Jin +1

We present a method based on the scattering operator, and conservation of net real and reactive power, to provide physical bounds on any electromagnetic design objecti…