Metasurfaces have recently risen to prominence in optical research, providing unique
functionalities that can be used for imaging, beam forming, holography, polarimetry, and …

Photonic devices play an increasingly important role in advancing physics and engineering.
Although improvements in nanofabrication and computational methods have driven …

Solid-state defect qubit systems with spin-photon interfaces show great promise for quantum
information and metrology applications. Photon collection efficiency, however, presents a …

Scattering theory is the basis of all linear optical and photonic devices, whose spectral
response underpins wide-ranging applications from sensing to energy conversion. Unlike …

We exploit fluctuational electrodynamics to present trace expressions for the torque
experienced by arbitrary objects in a passive, nonabsorbing, rotationally invariant …

Modern nanophotonic and meta-optical devices utilize a tremendous number of structural
degrees of freedom to enhance light–matter interactions. A fundamental question is how …

In the photonic design problem, a scientist or engineer chooses the physical parameters of a
device to best match some desired device behavior. Many instances of the photonic design …

We develop a unified framework for identifying bounds to maximum resonant nonlinear
optical susceptibilities and for “inverse designing” quantum-well structures that can …

The electromagnetic local density of states (LDOS) is crucial to many aspects of photonics
engineering, from enhancing emission of photon sources to radiative heat transfer and …

Photonic design is a process of mathematical optimization of a desired objective (beam
formation, mode conversion, etc.) subject to the constraint of Maxwell's equations. Finding …