Jelena Vučković, "From Inverse Design to Implementation of Practical Quantum Photonics" | KNI Series

On January 21, 2020, Professor Jelena Vučković (Stanford University) presented the KNI Distinguished Seminar on "From Inverse Design to Implementation of Practical (Quantum) Photonics".



In her lecture, Vučković discusses combining state of the art optimization and machine learning techniques with high speed electromagnetic solvers offers a new approach to "inverse" design and implementing classical and quantum photonic circuits with superior properties, including robustness to errors in fabrication and environment, compact footprints, novel functionalities, and high efficiencies. Her research group illustrates this with a number of demonstrated devices in silicon, diamond, and silicon carbide, including wavelength and polarization splitters and converters, power splitters, couplers, nonreciprocal switches and routers, on chip laser driven particle accelerators, and efficient quantum emitter-photon interfaces.


The KNI Distinguished Seminar Series is a series hosted by The Kavli Nanoscience Institute where eminent scientists and thinkers with strong yet varied backgrounds in nanoscience and nanotechnology share their expertise with the Caltech community. The scopes of presentations may range from: recent outstanding scientific highlights/technological advancements, to innovative early-stage research developments, to broader cross-disciplinary topics that are relevant to nanoscience. Each seminar is recorded and posted to the KNI YouTube channel.