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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

Complex wavefront engineering via decoupled space-time modulation

Virat Tara, Anna Wirth-Singh, Johannes E. Fröch +1

Solid-state Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) are fundamentally limited in their ability to achieve high spatial complexity and high temporal bandwidth simultaneously. High-speed, lo…

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…

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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…

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…