15 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…