Realizing optical analogs of quantum phenomena in atomic, molecular, or condensed
matter physics has underpinned a range of photonic technologies. Rabi splitting is a …

Silicon Photonics, the technology where optical devices are fabricated by the mainstream
microelectronic processing technology, was proposed almost 30 years ago. I joined this …

Harnessing optical supermode interaction to construct artificial photonic molecules has
uncovered a series of fundamental optical phenomena analogous to atomic physics …

Many physical systems display quantized energy states. In optics, interacting resonant
cavities show a transmission spectrum with split eigenfrequencies, similar to the split energy …

Microcavities are a class of optical structures providing a versatile approach to engineering
light matter interactions. In light of recent developments in materials processing …

High-quality lithium niobate (LN) thin-film microresonators provide an ideal platform for on-
chip nonlinear optical applications. The strict phase-matching condition should be satisfied …

We present a judicious design approach for optimizing semiconductor nanocavities, starting
from single photonic atoms to build photonic molecules functioning as high-performance …

Photonic molecules can realize complex optical energy modes that simulate states of matter
and have application to quantum, linear, and nonlinear optical systems. To achieve their full …

Benefiting from the tunability of their phase delay and gain, we show the possibility of
realizing level attraction, parity-time (PT)-, and anti-PT-symmetric photonic structures with …

Photon blockade provides an effective way to realize the single-photon source, which
attracts intensive attention in the fields of quantum optics and quantum information. Here in …