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physics.optics2015★ 1.1k cited

Inverse design and demonstration of a compact and broadband on-chip wavelength demultiplexer

Alexander Y. Piggott, Jesse Lu, Konstantinos G. Lagoudakis +3

Integrated photonic devices are poised to play a key role in a wide variety of applications, ranging from optical interconnects and sensors to quantum computing. However, only a sm…

physics.optics2014★ 139 cited

Inverse design and implementation of a wavelength demultiplexing grating coupler

Alexander Y. Piggott, Jesse Lu, Thomas M. Babinec +3

Nanophotonics has emerged as a powerful tool for manipulating light on chips. Almost all of today's devices, however, have been designed using slow and ineffective brute-force sear…

physics.optics2013★ 277 cited

Nanophotonic Computational Design

Jesse Lu, Jelena Vuckovic

In contrast to designing nanophotonic devices by tuning a handful of device parameters, we have developed a computational method which utilizes the full parameter space to design l…

physics.optics2010★ 19 cited

Coupled fiber taper extraction of 1.53 um photoluminescence from erbium doped silicon nitride photonic crystal cavities

Gary Shambat, Yiyang Gong, Jesse Lu +4

Optical fiber tapers are used to collect photoluminescence emission at ~1.5 um from photonic crystal cavities fabricated in erbium doped silicon nitride on silicon. Photoluminescen…

physics.optics2009

Inverse design of nanophotonic structures using complementary convex optimization

Jesse Lu, Jelena Vuckovic

A computationally-fast inverse design method for nanophotonic structures is presented. The method is based on two complementary convex optimization problems which modify the dielec…

physics.optics2008★ 28 cited

Plasmonic Enhancement of Emission from Si-nanocrystals

Yiyang Gong, Jesse Lu, Szu-Lin Cheng +2

Plasmonic gratings of different periodicities are fabricated on top of Silicon nanocrystals embedded in Silicon Dioxide. Purcell enhancements of up to 2 were observed, which matche…