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 …

Inverse design in nanophotonics

S Molesky, Z Lin, AY Piggott, W **, J Vucković… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Recent advancements in computational inverse-design approaches—algorithmic
techniques for discovering optical structures based on desired functional characteristics …

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 …

Machine-learning-assisted metasurface design for high-efficiency thermal emitter optimization

ZA Kudyshev, AV Kildishev, VM Shalaev… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Nanophotonic devices can provide solutions to challenges in energy conversion,
information technologies, chemical or biological sensing, quantum computing, and secure …

Waveguide sub‐wavelength structures: a review of principles and applications

R Halir, PJ Bock, P Cheben… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Periodic structures with a sub‐wavelength pitch have been known since Hertz conducted his
first experiments on the polarization of electromagnetic waves. While the use of these …

Intelligent designs in nanophotonics: from optimization towards inverse creation

N Wang, W Yan, Y Qu, S Ma, SZ Li, M Qiu - PhotoniX, 2021 - Springer
Applying intelligence algorithms to conceive nanoscale meta-devices becomes a flourishing
and extremely active scientific topic over the past few years. Inverse design of functional …

Subwavelength grating periodic structures in silicon-on-insulator: a new type of microphotonic waveguide

PJ Bock, P Cheben, JH Schmid, J Lapointe… - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We report on the experimental demonstration and analysis of a new waveguide principle
using subwavelength gratings. Unlike other periodic waveguides such as line-defects in a …

Efficient adiabatic silicon-on-insulator waveguide taper

Y Fu, T Ye, W Tang, T Chu - Photonics Research, 2014 - opg.optica.org
A silicon-on-insulator-based adiabatic waveguide taper with a high coupling efficiency and
small footprint is presented. The taper was designed to reduce the incidence of mode …

Structured light generation using angle‐multiplexed metasurfaces

L Deng, R **, Y Xu, Y Liu - Advanced Optical Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
On the basis of the Jones matrix, independent control over the amplitude and phase of light
has been demonstrated by combining several meta‐atoms into the supercell of a …

Subwavelength waveguide grating for mode conversion and light coupling in integrated optics

P Cheben, DX Xu, S Janz, A Densmore - Optics express, 2006 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new method for mode conversion and coupling between an optical fiber and
a sub-micrometer waveguide using a subwavelength grating (SWG) with a period less than …