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most citedNon-volatile Phase-only Transmissive Spatial Light Modulators

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physics.optics2025

Electrically reconfigurable nonvolatile transmissive metasurface in visible

Virat Tara, Romil Audhkhasi, Andrew Tang +5

The synergy between metasurfaces and non-volatile phase change materials (PCMs) has created many reconfigurable photonic devices for applications in optical memory, optical computi…

physics.optics2025

Compact broadband thermal absorbers based on plasmonic fractal metasurfaces

Romil Audhkhasi, Virat Tara, Raymond Yu +2

The ability to efficiently absorb thermal radiation within a small material volume is crucial for the realization of compact and high spatial resolution thermal imagers. Here we pr…

physics.optics2025

Electrically reconfigurable nonvolatile flatband absorbers in the mid-infrared with wide spectral tuning range

Romil Audhkhasi, Virat Tara, Matthew Klein +5

While recent advances in reconfigurable photonics have provided new avenues for manipulating light on the subwavelength scale, on-demand control of infrared absorption remains elus…

physics.optics2025

Free Space Few-Photon Nonlinearity in Critically Coupled Polaritonic Metasurfaces

Jie Fang, Abhinav Kala, Rose Johnson +15

Few-photon optical nonlinearity in planar solid-state systems is challenging yet crucial for quantum and classical optical information processing. Polaritonic nonlinear metasurface…

physics.optics2024

Low-power 7-bit hybrid volatile/ nonvolatile tuning of ring resonators

Jayita Dutta, Rui Chen, Virat Tara +1

Programmable photonic integrated circuits are expected to play an increasingly important role to enable high-bandwidth optical interconnects, and large-scale in-memory computing as…

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…