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How to Count Modes and Deduce Limits in Optics

This invited talk at Metamaterials 2021 discusses how we can use the new kind of “modes”, formally given by the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the coupling operator, to describe optical communications and linear optical devices efficiently and precisely. This approach uniquely gives all the orthogonal channels between input and output spaces. It leads to… Read more How to Count Modes and Deduce Limits in Optics

Getting to femtojoule optics – what physics and what technology?

This invited talk, given by David Miller at the Optical Fibers Conference (OFC) 2021 in the Symposium on Emerging Photonic Technologies and Architectures for Femtojoule per Bit Optical Networks, explains how we get the total energy per bit communicated into the femtojoule range. This would transform the power dissipation of large systems like data centers.… Read more Getting to femtojoule optics – what physics and what technology?

Self-configuring silicon photonics systems and applications

David Miller delivered this invited talk on self-configuring photonics at the Photonics West conference (an online meeting). “Self-configuring silicon photonics systems and applications,” SPIE OPTO, Silicon Photonics XVI, Proceedings Volume 11691, Silicon Photonics XVI; 116910F (2021), March 5, 2021

How light could transform computing

February 10, 2021 This video is a podcast in the Stanford University School of Engineering “The Future of Everything” series, hosted by Russ Altman. In this episode David Miller discusses how light has the potential to transform computing.

"Nature" perspective - Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics

G. Wetzstein, A. Ozcan, S. Gigan, Shanhui Fan, D. Englund, M. Soljačić, C. Denz, D. A. B. Miller and D. Psaltis “Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics,” Nature 588, 39-47 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2973-6 Open access link https://rdcu.be/cbBRj

A new way of making, using and understanding optics

“A new way of making, using and understanding optics,” Annual Meeting of the International Max Planck Research School – Physics of Light on Oct. 21, 2020, Erlangen, Germany (virtual conference).

"Nature" review - Programmable photonic circuits

W. Bogaerts, D. Pérez, J. Capmany, D. A. B. Miller, J. Poon, D. Englund, F. Morichetti and A. Melloni “Programmable photonic circuits,” Nature 586, 207–216 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2764-0 Open access link https://rdcu.be/b8caY

Finding the right modes for communicating with optics

“Finding the right modes for communicating with optics,” OSA Frontiers in Optics, 14 – 17 September, 2020 (online meeting), Paper FM1D.1.

Complicated photonic circuits that set themselves up

“Self-configuring silicon photonics,” European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM), 7 – 11 September 2020 (online meeting), in TOM 1- Silicon Photonics and Guided-Wave Optics, Session 2. .

Optics - the only way to save energy and increase density in information processing

“Photonics to save energy and increase density in information processing,” OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (virtual event), July 15, 2020, Paper PsW1F.2