Engineered disorder in photonics

S Yu, CW Qiu, Y Chong, S Torquato, N Park - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Disorder, which qualitatively describes some measure of irregularities in spatial patterns, is
ubiquitous in many-body systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states of matter, network …

Thermal photonics with broken symmetries

T Liu, C Guo, W Li, S Fan - ELight, 2022 - Springer
Nanophotonic engineering provides an effective platform to manipulate thermal emission on-
demand, enabling unprecedented heat management superior to conventional bulk …

Kan: Kolmogorov-arnold networks

Z Liu, Y Wang, S Vaidya, F Ruehle, J Halverson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Inspired by the Kolmogorov-Arnold representation theorem, we propose Kolmogorov-Arnold
Networks (KANs) as promising alternatives to Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). While MLPs …

Far-field coupling between moiré photonic lattices

J Guan, J Hu, Y Wang, MJH Tan, GC Schatz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Superposing two or more periodic structures to form moiré patterns is emerging as a
promising platform to confine and manipulate light. However, moiré-facilitated interactions …

Physical limits in electromagnetism

P Chao, B Strekha, R Kuate Defo, S Molesky… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Photonic devices play an increasingly important role in advancing physics and engineering.
Although improvements in nanofabrication and computational methods have driven …

Dirac electrons in a dodecagonal graphene quasicrystal

SJ Ahn, P Moon, TH Kim, HW Kim, HC Shin, EH Kim… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Quantum states of quasiparticles in solids are dictated by symmetry. We have experimentally
demonstrated quantum states of Dirac electrons in a two-dimensional quasicrystal without …

Disordered photonics

DS Wiersma - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
What do lotus flowers have in common with human bones, liquid crystals with colloidal
suspensions, and white beetles with the beautiful stones of the Taj Mahal? The answer is …

Compact spectrometer based on a disordered photonic chip

B Redding, SF Liew, R Sarma, H Cao - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Light scattering in disordered media has been studied extensively due to its prevalence in
natural and artificial systems. In photonics most of the research has focused on …

Anderson localization of light

M Segev, Y Silberberg, DN Christodoulides - Nature Photonics, 2013 - nature.com
Over the past decade, the Anderson localization of light and a wide variety of associated
phenomena have come to the forefront of research. Numerous investigations have been …

Tailoring light with layered and moiré metasurfaces

G Hu, M Wang, Y Mazor, CW Qiu, A Alù - Trends in Chemistry, 2021 - cell.com
Optical metasurfaces are assemblies of subwavelength, artificially designed inclusions
forming planarized devices with unprecedented capabilities to manipulate electromagnetic …