activity
20242026
collaborators

15 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

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.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

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…