Events for the College of Optics & Photonics
Title: Field-tunable light-matter interaction in van der Waals matter Abstract: Van der Waals matter - systems composed of natural or artificially stacked two-dimensional layered materials - is highly sensitive to both interlayer interactions and external perturbations. The strategic stacking of distinct layered materials provides a powerful route toward emergent electronic phases and strongly interacting many-body optical excitations. In particular, transition metal …
CREOL CalendarTitle: 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 is named photonic inverse design, and refers to efficiently searching through the space of all possible photonic device geometries, within fabrication …
CREOL CalendarTitle: Electro-Optic Polymers for High-Speed Datacenter Connectivity Abstract: The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) has placed unprecedented demands on datacenter interconnects. Deployments of 1.6 Tb/s transceivers at 200 Gb/s per lane are slated to occur later this year in 2026. Current solutions for these transceivers are primarily based on silicon photonics and indium phosphide, but both these standalone materials …
CREOL CalendarTitle: Frequency-Comb-Based Optical Timing Networks Abstract: The optical frequency comb has enabled a wide range of frequency, time and distance metrology applications due to its precise, rigid, and referenced optical output. However, the very rigidity which makes the frequency comb an excellent time-frequency ruler places limits on its applicability for comb-based sensing applications with many operating far from quantum-limited sensitivity. For instance, …
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