Modern nanotechnology allows one to scale down various important devices (sensors,
chips, fibers, etc.) and thus opens up new horizons for their applications. The efficiency of …

The quest for all-optical signal processing is generally deemed to be impractical because
optical nonlinearities are usually weak. The emerging field of nonlinear photonic crystals …

Self-assembling colloidal particles in the cubic diamond crystal structure could potentially be
used to make materials with a photonic bandgap,–. Such materials are beneficial because …

Optical nonlinear functions are crucial for various applications in integrated photonics,
including all-optical information processing, photonic neural networks, and on-chip ultrafast …

The development of inverse design, where computational optimization techniques are used
to design devices based on certain specifications, has led to the discovery of many compact …

A new class of composite materials has emerged which provides a means to control and
manipulate light. These materials, known as photonic crystals, are periodic arrays of …

Recently, strongly modulated photonic crystals, fabricated by the state-of-the-art
semiconductor nanofabrication process, have realized various novel optical properties. This …

Optical computing and optical neural network have gained increasing attention in recent
years because of their potential advantages of parallel processing at the speed of light and …

The present study was designed and simulated for an all optical half-adder, based on 2D
photonic crystals. The proposed structure in this work contains a hexagonal lattice. The main …

Topological photonics is an emerging field of research, which is inspired by the discovery of
topological insulators. The introduction of topology endows traditional photonic systems with …