Inverse designed integrated photonics

Abstract

Computational techniques such as photonics inverse design, along with new nanofabrication approaches and photonic materials, play a crucial role in addressing challenges of building scalable quantum and nonlinear photonics. We illustrate this with several recent examples, including on chip nonlinear optical isolators, miniaturized Ti:sapphire lasers, chip-to-chip and on-chip optical interconnects with error free communication rates exceeding terabit per second, and scalable quantum systems based on color centers in wide band gap semiconductors such as diamond and silicon carbide.