12 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…