The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

Recent advancements in computational inverse-design approaches—algorithmic
techniques for discovering optical structures based on desired functional characteristics …

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 …

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 …

Dedicated multi-project wafer (MPW) runs for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) from Si
foundries mean that researchers and small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) can now afford to …

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the literature and trends on the design of
periodic microstructural composite materials including photonic crystals (PtCs), phononic …

Nanophotonics finds ever broadening applications requiring complex components with
many parameters to be simultaneously designed. Recent methodologies employing …

The design of new devices and experiments has historically relied on the intuition of human
experts. Now, design inspirations from computers are increasingly augmenting the capability …

Inverse design methods produce nanophotonic devices with arbitrary geometries that show
high efficiencies as well as novel functionalities. Ensuring fabricability during optimization of …

Integrated optical power splitters are one of the fundamental building blocks in photonic
integrated circuits. Conventional multimode interferometer-based power splitters are widely …