Optical meta-waveguides for integrated photonics and beyond

Y Meng, Y Chen, L Lu, Y Ding, A Cusano… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

Grating couplers on silicon photonics: Design principles, emerging trends and practical issues

L Cheng, S Mao, Z Li, Y Han, HY Fu - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics is an enabling technology that provides integrated photonic devices and
systems with low-cost mass manufacturing capability. It has attracted increasing attention in …

Generative model for the inverse design of metasurfaces

Z Liu, D Zhu, SP Rodrigues, KT Lee, W Cai - Nano letters, 2018 - ACS Publications
The advent of metasurfaces in recent years has ushered in a revolutionary means to
manipulate the behavior of light on the nanoscale. The design of such structures, to date …

Laguerre-Gaussian mode sorter

NK Fontaine, R Ryf, H Chen, DT Neilson, K Kim… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Exploiting a particular wave property for a particular application necessitates components
capable of discriminating in the basis of that property. While spectral or polarisation …

Edge couplers in silicon photonic integrated circuits: A review

X Mu, S Wu, L Cheng, HY Fu - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics has drawn increasing attention in the past few decades and is a promising
key technology for future daily applications due to its various merits including ultra-low cost …

Intelligent nanophotonics: merging photonics and artificial intelligence at the nanoscale

K Yao, R Unni, Y Zheng - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Nanophotonics has been an active research field over the past two decades, triggered by
the rising interests in exploring new physics and technologies with light at the nanoscale. As …

Nanoscale neural network using non-linear spin-wave interference

Á Papp, W Porod, G Csaba - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
We demonstrate the design of a neural network hardware, where all neuromorphic
computing functions, including signal routing and nonlinear activation are performed by spin …

An integrated-nanophotonics polarization beamsplitter with 2.4 × 2.4 μm2 footprint

B Shen, P Wang, R Polson, R Menon - Nature Photonics, 2015 - nature.com
We have designed, fabricated and characterized an integrated-nanophotonics polarization
beamsplitter with a footprint of 2.4× 2.4 μm2, which is the smallest polarization beamsplitter …

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

AY Piggott, J Lu, KG Lagoudakis, J Petykiewicz… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
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 …

Review of numerical optimization techniques for meta-device design

SD Campbell, D Sell, RP Jenkins, EB Whiting… - Optical Materials …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Optimization techniques have been indispensable for designing high-performance meta-
devices targeted to a wide range of applications. In fact, today optimization is no longer an …