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most citedHeteroepitaxial growth of highly anisotropic films on GaAs

5 citations · 13 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

physics.optics2026

Inverse designed resistive heaters for uniform switching of Phase Change Materials

Virat Tara, Khoi P. Dao, Juejun Hu +1

Non-volatile phase-change material (PCM)-integrated metasurfaces offer a promising pathway toward next-generation solid-state reconfigurable free-space optics. However, their pract…

physics.optics2026

Measurement of complex scattering matrix in a nano-cavity array for boundary scattering tomography

Andrew Tang, Romil Audhkhasi, Virat Tara +3

On-chip silicon photonic coupled cavity arrays (CCA) are a promising platform for quantum simulators, with access to high Quality (Q) factor resonators, tunability, and foundry com…

physics.optics2026★ 2 cited

Increased endurance of nonvolatile photonics enabled by nanostructured phase-change materials

Jayita Dutta, Andrew Tang, Brian Mills +8

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence, and in-memory computing has reinvigorated research on scalable, energy-efficient, and reconfigurable photonic hardware. Non-volatile phas…

quant-ph2026

Triply Resonant Photonic Crystal Nanobeam Cavities for Unconditional Photon Blockade

Richard Dong, Abhinav Kala, Andrew Lingenfelter +3

The development of many scalable quantum technologies requires single-photon nonlinearity, such as single-photon blockade, in solid-state systems. Recently, it has been shown that…

physics.optics2025

Wafer-scale conformal metasurface optics

Louis Martin-Monier, Sehui Chang, Johannes Froech +11

Curved and conformal optics offer significant advantages by unlocking additional geometric degrees of freedom for optical design. These capabilities enable enhanced optical perform…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

2D Addressable Mid-infrared Metasurface Spatial Light Modulator

Cosmin-Constantin Popescu, Maarten Robbert Anton Peters, Oleg Maksimov +12

Active metasurfaces enable dynamic control of light for applications in beam steering, pixelated holography, and adaptive optics, but demonstrations of two-dimensional (2D) electri…

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

Mixed Precision Photonic Computing with 3D Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits

Georgios Charalampous, Rui Chen, Mehmet Berkay On +12

We propose advancing photonic in-memory computing through three-dimensional photonic-electronic integrated circuits using phase-change materials (PCM) and AlGaAs-CMOS technology. T…

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★ 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.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

All-Dielectric Metasurface with a Two-Dimensional Locally Flat Photonic Band

Minho Choi, Christopher Munley, Virat Tara +4

Photonic flatbands offer promising light-matter interaction due to their unique slow-light nature. In recent years, flatbands have also attracted significant interest in optical en…

physics.optics2025

Near-visible low power tuning of nematic-liquid crystal integrated silicon nitride ring resonator

Jayita Dutta, Antonio Ferraro, Arnab Manna +5

The development of compact, low-power, and high-performance integrated photonic phase shifters is critical for advancing emerging technologies such as light detection and ranging (…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

Heteroepitaxial growth of highly anisotropic films on GaAs

Kelly Xiao, Virat Tara, Pooja D. Reddy +6

The epitaxial integration of anisotropic materials with mainstream cubic semiconductors opens new routes to advanced electronic and photonic devices with directional properties. In…

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

Non-volatile Tuning of Cryogenic Optical Resonators

Uthkarsh Adya, Rui Chen, I-Tung Chen +4

Quantum computing, ultra-low-noise sensing, and high-energy physics experiments often rely on superconducting circuits or semiconductor qubits and devices operating at deep cryogen…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

Unified laser stabilization and isolation on a silicon chip

Alexander D. White, Geun Ho Ahn, Richard Luhtaru +8

Rapid progress in photonics has led to an explosion of integrated devices that promise to deliver the same performance as table-top technology at the nanoscale; heralding the next…

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…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Boundary scattering tomography of the Bose Hubbard model on general graphs

Abhi Saxena, Erfan Abbasgholinejad, Arka Majumdar +1

Correlated quantum many-body phenomena in lattice models have been identified as a set of physically interesting problems that cannot be solved classically. Analog quantum simulato…