Videos
Understanding and exploiting complex and self-configuring photonics
7 June, 2022, “Understanding and exploiting complex and self-configuring photonics,” Invited webinar, Optica Nanophotonics Technical Group, June 7, 2022

Self-configuring complex photonic circuits
7 December, 2021, “Self-configuring complex photonic circuits,” (Invited), 2021 IEEE Group IV Photonics Conference (GFP2021) (virtual conference) Dec. 7, 2021, Paper TuE3
Degrees of Freedom and Modes in Optics and Electromagnetics
17 November, 2021, “Degrees of Freedom and Modes in Optics and Electromagnetics,” (Invited), 2021 IEEE Conference on Antenna Measurements & Applications Antibes Juan-Les-Pins (virtual meeting), Paper WeBT2.2
The New Multimode Optics – Understanding and Exploiting Controllable Complexity
4 November, 2021, “The New Multimode Optics – Understanding and Exploiting Controllable Complexity ,” (Invited Tutorial) Frontiers in Optics 21 (FiO 21), 4 November, 2021 (virtual conference) Paper FTh6C.1
Optical interconnects to chips – why and how
October 20, 2021, “Optical interconnects to chips – why and how,” (Invited Tutorial) IEEE Photonics Conference, 18 – 21 October, 2021 (virtual conference) Paper WG4.1
How to Count Modes and Deduce Limits in Optics
September 22, 2021, “How to Count Modes and Deduce Limits in Optics,”15th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena, Metamaterials 2021, Special Session: Fundamental Performance Limits in Photonics, New York USA 20 – 25 September, 2021 (virtual meeting)
Getting to femtojoule optics – what physics and what technology?
June 8, 2021 “Getting to femtojoule optics – what physics and what technology?” Optical Fibers Conference (OFC) 2021 (a Virtual Conference), Symposium on Emerging Photonic Technologies and Architectures for Femtojoule per Bit Optical Networks, Paper Tu5A.3 (invited), June 8, 2021
Self-configuring silicon photonics systems and applications
March 5, 2021 “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.
A new way of making, using and understanding optics
October 21, 2020
This set of 4 videos was prepared as a tutorial lecture (see also the slides “A new way of making, using and understanding optics,” ) for the Annual Meeting of the International Max Planck Research School – Physics of Light on Oct. 21, 2020, Erlangen, Germany. These talks are also available as a YouTube playlist through https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUULX14QByt1qJICxMKJT-oJ6R0lPd6MS
Finding the right modes for communicating with optics
OSA Frontiers in Optics, 14 – 17 September, 2020 (online meeting), Paper FM1D.1.
Self-configuring silicon photonics
(Note: for an updated and expanded version of this talk see “Self-configuring silicon photonics systems and applications” above.
European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM), 7 – 11 September 2020 (online meeting), in TOM 1- Silicon Photonics and Guided-Wave Optics, Session 2.
Photonics to save energy and increase density in information processing
OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (virtual event), July 15, 2020, Paper PsW1F.2
Saving energy and increasing density in information processing using photonics
Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, Stanford, CA, April 4, 2019
Light, Energy and the Internet
Royal Society of Edinburgh and Royal Academy of Engineering Joint Lecture 2015, Royal Academy of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, March 17, 2015