Events
Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)
26 July 2021 – 29 July 2021
The conference will focus on the modeling, design, synthesis, assembly and patterning of optical materials, new optical behavior emerging in these materials, and novel optical devices and applications, including imaging systems, lasers, LEDs, nanoscale devices, quantum photonics, bioinspired optics, biophotonics, waveguides and fibers, sensors, detectors, biomimetic materials, and other new and emerging areas.
Essential Links
Advanced Photonics Congress
Topics
1. Soft and Bioinspired Photonics
Biomimetic materials
Bio-inspired optics
Liquids and soft optical materials
Liquid crystals
2. Nanophotonics
Metamaterials and metasurfaces
Plasmonics
Optical thin films
Nanomaterials
3. Emerging Quantum and Tunable Materials
Phase-change materials
Two-dimensional materials
Materials for quantum photonics
4. Advances in Fabrication and Design
Additive manufacturing and laser-assisted fabrication of materials
Artificially engineered and self-assembled optics
Flexible optoelectronics and photonics
5. Machine learning and Autonomous Design
Machine learning for materials applications
Optimization for materials design
Theory and computations of light-matter interactions
6. Breakthroughs in Traditional Optical Materials
Nonlinear materials
Laser materials
Materials for aerospace applications
Materials for solar and LEDs
Materials for fiber optics
Materials for light detection
Speakers
- Federico Capasso, Harvard University, United States
New Approaches to Polarization Optics and Structured Light with Metasurfaces Keynote - Yi Cui, Stanford University, United States
Reinventing Textiles with Photonic Functionality for Sustainability Keynote - Roger Hanlon, Marine Biological Laboratory, United States
The Octopus as Tech: Exploring the Biology and Technological Potential of Nature’s Master of Color Change Keynote - Andrea Alu, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Magnet-free Approaches for Nonreciprocal Photonics Tutorial - Jonathan Fan, Stanford University, United States
Machine Learning for Simulating and Designing Nanophotonic Devices Tutorial - Sedat Nizamoglu, Koc Universitesi, Turkey
Optoelectronic Neural Interfaces - Fundamentals and Applications Tutorial - Ali Adibi, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Manifold Learning for Knowledge Discovery in Optical Metamaterials - Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University, United States
Advancing Photonic Design and Quantum Measurements with Machine Learning - Darryl Boyd, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States
Comonomer Isomers Result in Varied Optical Properties Within ORMOCHALC Polymers - Kuo-Ping Chen, National Chaio-Tung University, Taiwan
Tunable Bound State in the Continuous with Metasurfaces and Anisotropic Medium - Thomas Cronin, University of Maryland Baltimore County, United States
Biological Optics: Evolutionary Inventiveness in Light Control - Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, University of Adelaide, Australia
New Approaches to Hybrid Fibers with Novel Functionalities for Sensing and Nonlinear Photonics Applications - Viktor Gruev, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
Bioinspired Polarization and Multispectral Imagers for Image Guided Cancer Surgery and Underwater Geolocalization - Deidra Hodges, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Synchrotron and Optical Probing of Mixed Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaics - Tetyana Ignatova, North Carolina A&T; State University, United States
Probing Optical Response of 2D Heterostructures across Interface - Rafael Jaramillo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Refractive and Phase-change Uses of Layered and 2D Materials for Integrated Photonics - Sonke Johnsen, Duke University, United States
The Diverse Structures Underlying Ultrablack Coloration in Tropical Butterflies and Deep-sea Fish - Mathias Kolle, MIT, United States
Biological Growth and Optical Manufacture of Structurally-colored Materials - Paulina Kuo, National Inst of Standards & Technology, United States
Domain-engineered PPLN for Tailored Spontaneous Parametric Downconversion - Mo Li, University of Washington, United States
Integrated Photonic Neural Networks Using Phase-change Materials - Tengfei Luo, University of Notre Dame
Thin-Film Metamaterial Optical Diode Designed Using Machine Learning - Maiken H. Mikkelsen, Duke University, United States
Metasurfaces for Ultrafast Pyroelectric Photodetectors - Daniel Morse, University of California Santa Barbara
Reflectin’s Finely Tunable, Impedance-Matched, Amplifying Biophotonic System - Robert T. Murray, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
CdSiP2 Based Mid-infrared Optical Parametric Sources Pumped with Raman Fiber Amplifiers - Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, UCSB
Organic Semiconductors for Opto-electronic Devices - Francesca Palombo, University of Exeter
Probing the Micromechanics of Bioconstructs Using Brillouin Microscopy - Evan Reed, Stanford University
New Photocathode Materials Identified by Data Driven Discovery - Junsuk Rho, Pohang Univ of Science & Technology, Republic Of Korea
Inverse Design and Forward Modelling in Nanophotonics Using Deep Learning - Raktim Sarma, Yale University, United States
All-Dielectric Polaritonic Metasurfaces : From Strong Light-Matter Interaction to Extreme Nonlinearities - Vladimir Tassev, Air Force Research Laboratory , United States
Heteroepitaxy of GaP, GaAsP and ZnSe on OP-GaAs Templates – a Reasonable Solution in Development of Frequency Conversion Laser Sources in the MLWIR - Silvia Vignolini, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Biomimetic Colour Engineering form Nature to Applications - Virginia Wheeler, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States
Atomic Layer Deposited VO2 Thin Films: Benefits towards Novel Device Architectures and Functionality - Peter Wiecha, CNRS, France
Generalized Nano-optics Fields Predictions and Inverse Design of Complex Transmission Matrices Enabled by Deep Learning - Yu Yao, Arizona State University, United States
Ultrafast Optical Modulation Based on Graphene-plasmonic Hybrid Metasurfaces - Heayoung Yoon, University of Utah, United States
Nanocontacts Probing Heterogeneous Local Optoelectronic Characteristics of Thin-Film Solar Cells - Weihua Zhang, Nanjing University, China
Towards 3D Heterogeneously Integrated Nanophotonics Through Deterministic Assembly
Committee
- Lynda Busse, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States, Chair
- Mikhail Kats, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States, Chair
- Jonathan Fan, Stanford University, United States, Program Chair
- Woei Ming Lee, Australian National University, Australia, Program Chair
- Ishwar Aggarwal, Univ of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States
- Andrea Armani, USC, United States
- Jennifer Choy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
- Stephen Foulger, Clemson University, United States
- Alon Gorodetsky, University of California Irvine, United States
- Shekhar Guha, US Air Force Research Laboratory, United States
- Roman Holovchak, Austin Peay State University, United States
- Jonathan Hu, Baylor University, United States
- Juejun Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
- Garo Khanarian, Consultant, United States
- Howard Lee, Baylor University, United States
- Yongmin Liu, Northeastern University, United States
- Yu-Jung Lu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- Arka Majumdar, University of Washington, United States
- Feng Miao, Nanjing University, China
- Jason Myers, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States
- Sedat Nizamoglu, Koc Universitesi, Turkey
- Dario Pisignano, University of Pisa, Italy
- Barry Rand, Princeton University, United States
- Orad Reshef, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Thomas Searles, Howard University, United States
- Brandon Shaw, US Naval Research Laboratory, United States
- Yakov Soskind, Apple Inc., United States
- Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah, United States
- David Woolf, Physical Sciences Inc, United States
- Seok-Hyun Yun, Harvard Medical School, United States
- Kevin Zawilski, BAE Systems , United States
- Chenglong Zhao, University of Dayton, United States
Plenary Session
Shanhui Fan
Stanford University
Synthetic Dimension: Topological Physics and Optical Computing
About the Speaker
Shanhui Fan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, a Professor of Applied Physics (by courtesy), a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy, and the Director of the Edward L. Ginzton...
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
New Materials and Structures for Photodetection
Some compound semiconductors such as GaAs and InGaAsP exhibit a high absorption coefficient in the photon energy of interest for solar energy conversion. The direct bandgap associated with strong tuneability of emission wavelength, renders compound semiocnductors the material of choice for optoelectronic applications. Their commercial potential in high production volume applications is reduced due to the scarcity (and thus high cost) of group III elements such as In and Ga. In this talk we present approaches to render the use this kind of materials sustainable: a strong reduction in material use through nanostructures and the replacement of III-V compounds by GeSn or Zn3P2 that contain much more abundant elements. We find nanostructures also provide a path to increase light collection and provide some instructions for optimal devices[1,2]. We explain how these materials can be fabricated with high crystal quality, opening the path for the creation of alternative and sustainable compound semiconductor solar cells [3-5].
References:
[1] P. Krogstrup et al Nature Photon 7, 306 (2013)
[2] A. Dorodnyy et al IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 24, 1-13 (2018)
[3] S. Escobar Steinvall et al Nanoscale Horizons 5, 274-282 (2020)
[4] R. Paul et al, Crys. Growth. Des. 20, 3816–3825 (2020)
[5] S. Escobar Steinval et al. Nanoscale Adv. 3, 326 (2021)
About the Speaker
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral is Spanish physicist and materials scientist. Her research focuses on nanotechnology applied in the production of solar cells. She is a Full Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the head of the Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials.
Son Thai Le
Nokia Bell Labs
Progress on Optical Single-sideband Transmission
There are only two modulation schemes which have been commercially deployed in fiber optical communications, namely the intensity modulation (IM) and the dual-polarization Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) schemes. These two modulation schemes, however, are very different in term of spectral efficiency, implementation’s complexity, transmission performance and reliability. Compared to the IM scheme, single sideband (SSB) modulation scheme can offer enhanced transmission performance and spectral efficiency. While SSB scheme has lower spectral efficiency than dual-polarization QAM scheme, it can provide additional functionalities, lower complexity and higher reliability. Because of these unique features, SSB modulation can be a suitable modulation format for several emerging applications such as dispersion tolerant DWDM regional and access networks, data center interconnect, optical network monitoring and 5G mobile fronthaul. In this talk, we will review the recent progress of optical SSB modulation for these applications and discuss its potential for commercialization in the near future.
About the Speaker
Son Thai Le is an optical transmission systems researcher at Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. He obtained his PhD in January 2016 from Aston University, UK. After that he joined the Digital Signal Processing department at Nokia Bell Labs in Stuttgart Germany. From May 2019, Son Thai Le has been with Nokia Bell Labs in NJ, USA. Son Thai Le has demonstrated many transmission records in reach, capacity and spectral efficiency of Nonlinear Frequency Division Multiplexed and short-reach direct detection systems. His current research interests include optical single-sideband modulation, short-reach direct detection and new signaling and architecture for 5G mobile fronthaul. In 2018, Son Thai Le was awarded as “Innovator under 35 Europe” and “Innovator of the year (Germany)” by MIT Technology Review for his contributions in fiber optical communications. He was the recipient of the “Best Paper Award” prizes at the German Information Technology Association (ITG) in 2018 and at NICS in 2019.
Keynote Speaker: Eli Yablonovitch
University of California, Berkeley
Light Trapping in Perspective; Not Just for Current, it Boosts Voltage Too
Almost all commercial solar panels use Light Trapping which increases the internal optical path length by 4(n squared), increasing the current, where n is refractive index. In spite of numerous ingenious attempts, that classical enhancement factor has not been superseded. It is sometimes over-looked that operating point Voltage also increases, by (kT/q)ln{4(n squared)}~100mVolts.
About the Speaker
Eli Yablonovitch is Director of the NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S), a multi-University Center headquartered at Berkeley. Yablonovitch introduced the idea that strained semiconductor lasers could have superior performance due to reduced effective mass (holes). With almost every human interaction with the internet, optical telecommunication occurs by strained semiconductor lasers. He is regarded as a Father of the Photonic BandGap concept, and he coined the term "Photonic Crystal". The geometrical structure of the first experimentally realized Photonic bandgap, is sometimes called “Yablonovite”. He was elected to NAE, NAS, NAI, AmAcArSci, and as Foreign Member, UK Royal
Special Events
Symposium: Forty Years of Light Management
Forty years ago, in December 1981, Eli Yablonovitch submitted his seminal paper on “Statistical Ray Optics,” which was one of the first papers investigating light management for solar cells from a fundamental physics perspective.
Light management has mainly been performed with antireflective coatings and textures, which enhance the average light path and hence, absorption in the solar cells. In the last twenty years highly innovative concepts were also investigated, such as (quasi)periodic structures, plasmonic nanostructures, Bragg reflectors, and photonic up- and downconversion. On the other hand, state-of-the-art silicon solar cells have almost perfect light trapping with external quantum efficiencies close to 100% for a broad wavelength range using only conventional light trapping techniques.
With this symposium, we aim to bring together leading experts in the field representing all the light management concepts investigated during the past forty years. We will critically review different light trapping techniques developed in the past decades and discuss, how the field may and should develop further.
Bioinspired Optics: From Fundamental Biology to Tools and Applications
NOMA Symposium outline:
The thematic focus of this symposium will be on the interdisciplinary area of bioinspired optics: specifically, understanding nature’s optical design principles and leveraging them for the development of novel optical tools. The talks will cover various approaches in biomolecular engineering and nanofabrication methodologies, which strive to emulate some of the unique light-manipulating capabilities of living systems, as well as the implementation of new optical characterization strategies. The symposium aims to encourage interdisciplinary discussion, with the simultaneous hope of identifying new research opportunities in bioinspired optics and photonics, advancing fundamental biological understanding, and accelerating next-generation optical tool development. Through our cross-disciplinary focus, we are striving to cultivate a cohesive and inclusive community of scientists at all career stages and from across all demographic groups.
Symposia Chairs: Woei Ming Steve Lee, Australian National University, Alon Gorodetsky, University of California Irvine
Keynote: Roger Hanlon “The Octopus as Tech: Exploring the biology and technological potential of nature’s master of color change” Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, USA
Session 1 – Bio-inspired systems
- Sonke Johnsen, "The diverse structures underlying ultrablack coloration in tropical butterflies and deep-sea fish" Duke University, USA
- Dan Morse “Bioinspired biophotonics” University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
- Silvia Vignolini, “Biomimetic colour engineering form nature to applications” University of Cambridge, UK
- Thomas Cronin, “Biological Optics: Evolutionary Inventiveness in Light Control University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Session 2 – Bio-inspired tools
- Viktor Gruev, “Bioinspired Polarization and Multispectral Imagers for Image Guided Cancer Surgery and Underwater Geolocalization”, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
- Francesca Palombo, “Optical measurement of mechanical and chemical properties of biomaterials and tissues” University of Exeter, UK
- Mathias Kolle, “Biological growth and optical manufacture of structurally-colored materials” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Tutorial: Optoelectronic Neural Interfaces - Fundamentals and Applications
Speaker: Sedat Nizamoglu, Koc University, Turkey
