The continuing advance of fabrication technologies for complex optics, such as nanophotonics and silicon photonic circuits, combined with recent developments in algorithms and innovative optimization approaches open a new opportunity: optics that can be designed and/or configured arbitrarily to do what we want, not just what classic optical components and approaches permit.
This workshop explores the novel structures, devices, architectures, algorithms, technologies, systems, and potential applications in this emerging field, and assembles leading researchers from a broad range of areas to find common ground across different fields and to stimulate novel research directions and applications.
In cooperation with the AFOSR Ultralow Power, Ultrafast, Integrated Nano-Optoelectronics MURI
Directions and Parking
The workshop will be in Spilker 232; the address is 348 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305.
From 101 North and South
Exit University west, toward Stanford. University turns into Palm Drive. Turn right on Campus Drive, then turn left on Panama. A parking structure is located on the left hand side, at the corner of Panama and Via Ortega. Visitor parking is available on the first and lower floors; pay kiosks are available at both levels.
The Spilker building is across from the Y2E2 building in the SEQ2 Quad.
From 280 North and South
Exit Sand Hill Road East toward Stanford. Turn right on Stockfarm Road, then left on Campus Drive. Turn right on Panama. A parking structure is located on the left hand side, at the corner of Panama and Via Ortega. Visitor parking is available on the first and lower floors; pay kiosks are available at both levels.
The Spilker building is across from the Y2E2 building in the SEQ2 Quad.
A searchable campus map is available here.
Thursday, November 16
8:00 am Registration & Breakfast
8:30 am Introduction & Welcome
Modal Optics and Reconfigurable Networks 1
Session organizer: David Miller
8:45 am Universal and self-configuring optical meshes
David Miller, Stanford University
9:15 am Programmable Nanophotonics for Quantum Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence
Nick Harris, MIT
9:45 am Unscrambling light
Francesco Morichetti, Politecnico di Milano
10:15 am Break
Optimized Design 1
Session organizer: Jelena Vuckovic
10:45 am Fabrication-constrained inverse design of robust nanophotonics
Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University
11:15 am Adjoint design in photonics
Eli Yablonovitch, UC Berkeley
11:45 am Optimization of nonlinear optical devices
Alejandro Rodriguez, Princeton
12:15 pm Lunch
Modal Optics and Reconfigurable Networks 2
Session organizer: Joe Kahn
1:30 pm Adiabatic multi-plane light converters
Nick Fontaine, Bell Labs
2:00 pm Recent Progress in Multi-Plane Light Conversion Technology
Pauline Boucher, CAILabs
2:30 pm Fixed and adaptive modal optics for mode-division multiplexing Karthik Choutagunta, Stanford University
3:00 pm Break
Metasurfaces
Session organizer: Jonathan Fan
3:30 pm High-performance metasurfaces based on topology optimization Jonathan Fan, Stanford University
4:00 pm Dynamic metamaterials for computational imaging
David Smith, Duke University
4:30 pm Metasurface-Based Nanophotonic Devices
Nanfang Yu, Columbia
5:00 pm Poster session and reception
Dinner – on your own
Friday, November 17
Optimized Design 2
Session organizer: Shanhui Fan
9:00 am Computational nanophotonics
Shanhui Fan, Stanford University
9:30 am Light in complex media – Information guides propagation
Allard Mosk, Utrecht University
10:00 am Break
Novel Nanophotonics and Applications (Part I)
Session organizer: Mark Brongersma
10:30 am Controlling light with nanostructures
Mark Brongersma, Stanford University
Computational Techniques in Imaging & Communications (Part I)
Session organizers: Joe Kahn & Jelena Vuckovic
11:00 am Fast and Robust Imaging of Hidden Objects with Time-Resolved Sensors
Matt O’Toole, Stanford University
11:30 am Efficient algorithms for phase retrieval problems in optics
Sercan Arik, Stanford University
12:00 pm Lunch
Computational Techniques in Imaging & Communications (Part II)
Session organizer: Mark Brongersma
1:30 pm Computational Microscopy
Laura Waller, UC Berkeley
Novel Nanophotonics and Applications (Part II)
Session organizers: Joe Kahn & Jelena Vuckovic
2:00 pm Wavefront transformation using metasurfaces
Andrea Alu, UT Austin
2:30 pm Doing math and solving equations with optical metastructures
Nader Engheta, U. Pennsylvania
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Open Discussion – Challenges and Opportunities
4:30 pm End of workshop
