activity
20242026
collaborators

12 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

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…

physics.optics2026

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.optics2026

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

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…