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physics.optics2026

Optically Incoherent Photonic Mutual Information

Francis J. Chen, Alessio Amaolo, Pengning Chao +3

While traditional evaluations of optical information transfer rely on disjointed abstractions to bridge electromagnetic propagation, coherence, and communication theory, we introdu…

physics.optics20251 cited

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.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…