WEBINAR

Unlocking the power of integrated photonics through inverse design and heterogeneous integration

Recent breakthroughs in photonics design, advanced nanofabrication, and innovative heterogeneous integration are paving the way for next-generation optical interconnects and quantum technologies, enabled by inverse design methods and cutting-edge materials like titanium:sapphire and silicon carbide.

May 15, 2025

5:00 PM UTC

1 hour

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May 15, 2025

1:00 PM ET / 12:00 PM CT / 10:00 AM PT / 5:00 PM GMT

Duration: 1 hour

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Summary

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 breakthrough in photonic design is enabled by development of an inverse design approach and GPU based computer software which designs photonic systems by efficiently searching through the space of all possible geometries, within fabrication constraints. In nanofabrication, new platforms have been developed enabling functionalities beyond silicon on insulator, include silicon carbide on insulator, Titanium:sapphire on insulator, as well ultra-strong electro-optic materials, strontium and barium titanate.

With these new approach 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.

Speaker

Jelena Vuckovic

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Jelena Vuckovic (PhD Caltech 2002) is the Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford, where she leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab in the Ginzton Laboratory. Vuckovic is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Her awards include the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, Geoffrey Frew Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences, the IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize, Humboldt Prize, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She was the Mildred Dresselhaus Lecturer at MIT, and the James Gordon Memorial Speaker at Optica. She is a Fellow of APS, Optica and IEEE. She is a co-founder of SPINS Photonics, a company focusing on commercializing photonics inverse design, and a Lead Editor of Physical Review Applied.

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