Virtual and CREOL: CROL-103

Title: Inverse Designed, Densely Integrated Classical and Quantum Photonics

Abstract: Recent breakthroughs in photonics design, along with new nanofabrication approaches and heterogeneous integration, play crucial roles in building photonics for applications including optical interconnects and quantum technologies. This design breakthrough, called photonic inverse design, involves efficiently searching through the space of all possible photonic device geometries, considering fabrication constraints, and using fast electromagnetic solvers and optimization tools. Additionally, new photonic platforms have been developed, enabling functionalities beyond silicon on insulator. These include silicon carbide, diamond, and Titanium: sapphire on insulator, as well as ultra-strong electro-optic materials, such as strontium and barium titanate. With these new approaches to design and fabrication, novel optoelectronic devices and systems have been designed and demonstrated, including error-free and fast chip-to-chip and on-chip optical interconnects compatible with commercial foundries, chip scale Ti: sapphire lasers and amplifiers, CMOS-compatible isolators and laser frequency stabilizers, and silicon carbide and diamond chip-scale quantum technologies

About the Speaker: Jelena Vuckovic (PhD Caltech 2002) is the Jensen Huang Professor of Global Leadership, Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Applied Physics at Stanford. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Her honors include the Zeiss Award, Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, Geoffrey Frew Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences, the IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize, Mildred Dresselhaus Lectureship from MIT, and the Humboldt Prize. She is a fellow of the APS, Optica and IEEE. Vuckovic is a co-founder and a lead scientific advisor of SPINS Photonics and a lead editor of Physical Review Applied.

Virtual Location URL: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/97575154727?from=addon