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Vision-Language Agents for Active Perception in Optics Laboratories
Ryan Lopez, Sachin Vaidya, Seou Choi +2
Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly being used in scientific workflows, but their ability as agents to directly control laboratory experiments from visual feedback remai…
A Programmable Optics Cloud Laboratory
Sachin Vaidya, Caio Silva, Seou Choi +2
Laboratory automation can improve experimental throughput, accessibility, and reproducibility, but many robotic laboratory systems remain difficult to reconfigure. This challenge i…
Three-dimensional confinement of light in photonic crystals without bandgaps
Manxi Shi, Sachin Vaidya, Ali Ghorashi +2
We demonstrate that confinement of light in three dimensions is possible in photonic crystals without a complete photonic bandgap. Our approach exploits symmetry-protected quadrati…
Supercollimating photonic crystal scintillators
Seou Choi, Sachin Vaidya, Charles Roques-Carmes +1
Scintillators convert X-ray energy into visible or near-visible photons, enabling applications in high-energy particle detection and X-ray imaging. Increasing scintillator thicknes…
Hybrid Nanophotonic Scintillators for Enhanced X-ray Absorption, Emission, and Time Resolution
Seou Choi, Sachin Vaidya, Avner Shultzman +3
Scintillators convert ionizing radiation into visible photons, enabling applications from cosmic ray detection to medical imaging. Two independent strategies for improving scintill…
AI-Driven Robotics for Optics
Shiekh Zia Uddin, Sachin Vaidya, Shrish Choudhary +5
Optics is foundational to research in many areas of science and engineering, including nanophotonics, quantum information, materials science, biomedical imaging, and metrology. How…
Probing intensity noise in ultrafast pulses using the dispersive Fourier transform augmented by quantum sensitivity analysis
Shiekh Zia Uddin, Sahil Pontula, Jiaxin Liu +4
To reach the next frontier in multimode nonlinear optics, it is crucial to better understand the classical and quantum phenomena of systems with many interacting degrees of freedom…
Large-scale self-assembled nanophotonic scintillators for X-ray imaging
Louis Martin-Monier, Simo Pajovic, Muluneh G. Abebe +9
Scintillators are essential for converting X-ray energy into visible light in imaging technologies. Their widespread application in imaging technologies has been enabled by scalabl…
Non-reciprocal frequency conversion in a multimode nonlinear system
Sahil Pontula, Sachin Vaidya, Charles Roques-Carmes +3
Nonlinear optics has become the workhorse for countless applications in classical and quantum optics, from optical bistability to single photon pair generation. However, the intrin…
Stochastic logic in biased coupled photonic probabilistic bits
Michael Horodynski, Charles Roques-Carmes, Yannick Salamin +4
Optical computing often employs tailor-made hardware to implement specific algorithms, trading generality for improved performance in key aspects like speed and power efficiency. A…
Multimode amplitude squeezing through cascaded nonlinear optical processes
Sahil Pontula, Yannick Salamin, Charles Roques-Carmes +1
Multimode squeezed light is enticing for several applications, from squeezed frequency combs for spectroscopy to signal multiplexing in optical computing. To generate squeezing in…