[HTML][HTML] 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 Jin, J Vucković… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Recent advancements in computational inverse-design approaches—algorithmic
techniques for discovering optical structures based on desired functional characteristics …

Training of photonic neural networks through in situ backpropagation and gradient measurement

TW Hughes, M Minkov, Y Shi, S Fan - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Recently, integrated optics has gained interest as a hardware platform for implementing
machine learning algorithms. Of particular interest are artificial neural networks, since matrix …

Adjoint method and inverse design for nonlinear nanophotonic devices

TW Hughes, M Minkov, IAD Williamson, S Fan - ACS Photonics, 2018 - ACS Publications
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 …

Adjoint shape optimization applied to electromagnetic design

CM Lalau-Keraly, S Bhargava, OD Miller… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We present an adjoint-based optimization for electromagnetic design. It embeds commercial
Maxwell solvers within a steepest-descent inverse-design optimization algorithm. The …

Inverse design of photonic crystals through automatic differentiation

M Minkov, IAD Williamson, LC Andreani, D Gerace… - Acs …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Gradient-based inverse design in photonics has already achieved remarkable results in
designing small-footprint, high-performance optical devices. The adjoint variable method …

S4: A free electromagnetic solver for layered periodic structures

V Liu, S Fan - Computer Physics Communications, 2012 - Elsevier
We describe S4, a free implementation of the Fourier modal method (FMM), which has also
been commonly referred to as rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA), for simulating …

Lithography-free reconfigurable integrated photonic processor

T Wu, M Menarini, Z Gao, L Feng - Nature Photonics, 2023 - nature.com
Integrated photonics, because of its intrinsic high speed, large bandwidth and unlimited
parallelism, is critical in the drive to ease the increasing data traffic. Its technological enabler …

Bends and splitters in metal-dielectric-metal subwavelength plasmonic waveguides

G Veronis, S Fan - Applied physics letters, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the performance of bends and splitters in metal-dielectric-metal
subwavelength plasmonic waveguides. We show that bends and splitters with no additional …

One-Way Electromagnetic Waveguide Formed at the Interface between a Plasmonic Metal<? format?> under a Static Magnetic Field and a Photonic Crystal

Z Yu, G Veronis, Z Wang, S Fan - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
We demonstrate theoretically the existence of one-way electromagnetic modes in a
waveguide formed between a semi-infinite photonic crystal structure and a semi-infinite …