Reconfigurable metasurfaces towards commercial success

T Gu, HJ Kim, C Rivero-Baleine, J Hu - Nature Photonics, 2023 - nature.com
Reconfigurable optical metasurfaces are rapidly emerging as a major frontier in photonics
research, development and commercialization. They promise compact, lightweight and …

The physics of optical computing

PL McMahon - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
There has been a resurgence of interest in optical computing since the early 2010s, both in
academia and in industry, with much of the excitement centred around special-purpose …

Integrated optical memristors

N Youngblood, CA Ríos Ocampo, WHP Pernice… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Memristors in electronics have shown the potential for a range of applications, ranging from
circuit elements to neuromorphic computing. In recent years, the ability to vary the …

Non-volatile electrically programmable integrated photonics with a 5-bit operation

R Chen, Z Fang, C Perez, F Miller, K Kumari… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Scalable programmable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can potentially transform the
current state of classical and quantum optical information processing. However, traditional …

Ultra-compact nonvolatile phase shifter based on electrically reprogrammable transparent phase change materials

C Ríos, Q Du, Y Zhang, CC Popescu, MY Shalaginov… - PhotoniX, 2022 - Springer
Optical phase shifters constitute the fundamental building blocks that enable programmable
photonic integrated circuits (PICs)—the cornerstone of on-chip classical and quantum …

Prospects and applications of photonic neural networks

C Huang, VJ Sorger, M Miscuglio… - … in Physics: X, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Neural networks have enabled applications in artificial intelligence through machine
learning, and neuromorphic computing. Software implementations of neural networks on …

Roadmap for phase change materials in photonics and beyond

P Prabhathan, KV Sreekanth, J Teng, JH Ko, YJ Yoo… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Phase Change Materials (PCMs) have demonstrated tremendous potential as a
platform for achieving diverse functionalities in active and reconfigurable micro …

[HTML][HTML] Research advancement and potential prospects of thermal energy storage in concentrated solar power application

M Mubarrat, MM Mashfy, T Farhan… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Researchers and power plant engineers have all taken an interest in Concentrating Solar
Power (CSP) of its capacity to generate large amounts of energy while overcoming the …

Non-volatile reconfigurable silicon photonics based on phase-change materials

Z Fang, R Chen, J Zheng… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The traditional ways of tuning a silicon photonic network are mainly based on the thermo-
optic effect or the free carrier dispersion. The drawbacks of these methods are the volatile …

Opportunities and challenges for large-scale phase-change material integrated electro-photonics

R Chen, Z Fang, F Miller, H Rarick, JE Froch… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Programmable photonics have the potential to completely transform a range of emerging
applications, including optical computing, optical signal processing, light detecting and …