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Fundamental limits on second harmonic generation
Jewel Mohajan, Pengning Chao, Weiliang Jin +2
Recent advances in fundamental performance limits for power quantities based on Lagrange duality are proving to be a powerful theoretical tool for understanding electromagnetic wav…
Laser cooling assisted thermal management of lightsails
Weiliang Jin, Wei Li, Chinmay Khandekar +2
A lightsail can be accelerated to ultra-high speed by the radiation pressure of a laser having an intensity of the order of GW/m, which though presents a critical challenge in…
Polarization-independent isotropic nonlocal metasurfaces with wavelength-controlled functionality
Olivia Y. Long, Cheng Guo, Weiliang Jin +1
Flat optics has demonstrated great advances in miniaturizing conventional, bulky optical elements due to the recent developments in metasurface design. Specific applications of suc…
Adaptive four-level modeling of laser cooling of solids
Weiliang Jin, Cheng Guo, Meir Orenstein +1
Laser cooling of rare-earth doped solids has been demonstrated across a wide range of material platforms, inspiring the development of simple phenomenological models such as the fo…
Direct thermal infrared vision via nanophotonic detector design
Chinmay Khandekar, Weiliang Jin, Shanhui Fan
Detection of infrared (IR) photons in a room-temperature IR camera is carried out by a two-dimensional array of microbolometer pixels which exhibit temperature-sensitive resistivit…
Inverse design of lightweight broadband reflector for efficient lightsail propulsion
Weiliang Jin, Wei Li, Meir Orenstein +1
Light can exert forces on objects, promising to propel a meter-scale lightsail to near the speed of light. The key to address many challenges in such an ambition hinges on the nano…
-operator bounds on angle-integrated absorption and thermal radiation for arbitrary objects
Sean Molesky, Weiliang Jin, Prashanth S. Venkataram +1
We derive fundamental per-channel bounds on angle-integrated absorption and thermal radiation for arbitrary bodies---for any given material susceptibility and bounding region---tha…
Inverse Design of Compact Multimode Cavity Couplers
Weiliang Jin, Sean Molesky, Zin Lin +2
Efficient coupling between on-chip sources and cavities plays a key role in silicon photonics. However, despite the importance of this basic functionality, there are few systematic…
Material Scaling and Frequency-Selective Enhancement of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer for Lossy Metals in Two Dimensions via Inverse Design
Weiliang Jin, Sean Molesky, Zin Lin +1
The super-Planckian features of radiative heat transfer in the near-field are known to depend strongly on both material and geometric design properties. However, the relative impor…
Outlook for inverse design in nanophotonics
Sean Molesky, Zin Lin, Alexander Y. Piggott +3
Recent advancements in computational inverse design have begun to reshape the landscape of structures and techniques available to nanophotonics. Here, we outline a cross section of…
Inverse designed photonic fibers and metasurfaces for nonlinear frequency conversion
Chawin Sitawarin, Weiliang Jin, Zin Lin +1
Typically, photonic waveguides designed for nonlinear frequency conversion rely on intuitive and established principles, including index guiding and band gap engineering, and are b…
Enhanced nonlinear frequency conversion and Purcell enhancement at exceptional points
Adi Pick, Zin Lin, Weiliang Jin +1
We derive analytical formulas quantifying radiative emission from subwavelength emitters embedded in triply resonant nonlinear cavities supporting exceptional points (EP)…