Publications
Journal Publications
31.
Intrinsically DRC-Compliant Nanophotonic Design via Learned Generative Manifolds
Preprint. arXiv:2602.03142 (2026)
30.
On-Chip Arbitrary Dispersion Engineering with Deep Photonic Networks
Optics Letters 50(11): 3780-3783
(2025)
29.
Universal On-Chip Polarization Handling with Deep Photonic Networks
Journal of Lightwave Technology 43(18): 8770-8776
(2025)
28.
Layout-Aware and Fabrication-Tolerant Deep Photonic Networks
Journal of Lightwave Technology 43(24): 10841-10848
(2025)
27.
Deep photonic network platform enabling arbitrary and broadband optical functionality
Nature Communications 15(1): 1432
(2024)
26.
Computationally Efficient Nanophotonic Design Through Data-Driven Eigenmode Expansion
Journal of Lightwave Technology
(2024)
25.
Ultra-broadband integrated optical filters based on adiabatic optimization of coupled waveguides
Journal of Lightwave Technology 41(15): 5067-5077
(2023)
24.
Computational scaling in inverse photonic design through factorization caching
Applied Physics Letters 123(22)
(2023)
23.
Arbitrary Phase Optimization Through Adaptively-Scheduled Nanophotonic Inverse Design
Journal of Innovative Science and Engineering 7(2): 142-159
(2023)
22.
A silicon photonic data link with a monolithic erbium-doped laser
Scientific Reports 10(1): 1114
(2020)
21.
Silicon photonics optical frequency synthesizer
Laser & Photonics Reviews 14(7): 1900449
(2020)
20.
High-Q, directional and self-assembled random laser emission using spatially localized feedback via cracks
APL Photonics 5(10)
(2020)
19.
Integrated CMOS-compatible Q-switched mode-locked lasers at 1900nm with an on-chip artificial saturable absorber
Optics Express 27(3): 3542-3556
(2019)
18.
CMOS-compatible optical phased array powered by a monolithically-integrated erbium laser
Journal of Lightwave Technology 37(24): 5982-5987
(2019)
17.
Optical frequency synthesizer with an integrated erbium tunable laser
Light: Science & Applications 8(1): 122
(2019)
16.
Transmissive silicon photonic dichroic filters with spectrally selective waveguides
Nature Communications 9(1): 3009
(2018)
15.
Broadband 2-µm emission on silicon chips: monolithically integrated Holmium lasers
Optics Express 26(3): 2220-2230
(2018)
14.
Octave-spanning coherent supercontinuum generation in silicon on insulator from 1.06 µm to beyond 2.4 µm
Light: Science & Applications 7(1): 17131-17131
(2018)
13.
Frequency domain spectroscopy in rare-earth-doped gain media
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 24(5): 1-10
(2018)
12.
High-Q-factor Al2O3 micro-trench cavities integrated with silicon nitride waveguides on silicon
Optics Express 26(9): 11161-11170
(2018)
11.
Monolithically integrated erbium-doped tunable laser on a CMOS-compatible silicon photonics platform
Optics Express 26(13): 16200-16211
(2018)
10.
High-power thulium lasers on a silicon photonics platform
Optics Letters 42(6): 1181-1184
(2017)
9.
Athermal synchronization of laser source with WDM filter in a silicon photonics platform
Applied Physics Letters 110(21): 211105
(2017)
8.
Ultra-narrow-linewidth Al2O3: Er3+ lasers with a wavelength-insensitive waveguide design on a wafer-scale silicon nitride platform
Optics Express 25(12): 13705-13713
(2017)
7.
Monolithically-integrated distributed feedback laser compatible with CMOS processing
Optics Express 25(15): 18058-18065
(2017)
6.
Reliable integrated photonic light sources using curved Al2O3: Er3+ distributed feedback lasers
IEEE Photonics Journal 9(4): 1-9
(2017)
5.
Wavelength division multiplexed light source monolithically integrated on a silicon photonics platform
Optics Letters 42(9): 1772-1775
(2017)
4.
Resonant pumped erbium-doped waveguide lasers using distributed Bragg reflector cavities
Optics Letters 41(6): 1189-1192
(2016)
3.
C-band swept wavelength erbium-doped fiber laser with a high-Q tunable interior-ridge silicon microring cavity
Optics Express 24(20): 22741-22748
(2016)
2.
Ultra-compact and low-threshold thulium microcavity laser monolithically integrated on silicon
Optics Letters 41(24): 5708-5711
(2016)
1.
GaSb thermophotovoltaic cells grown on GaAs substrate using the interfacial misfit array method
Journal of Electronic Materials 43(4): 902-908
(2014)
Conference Presentations and Posters
53.
Learned manifold reparameterization for DRC-compatible inverse design in silicon photonics
SPIE Photonics Europe
(2026), Machine Learning in Photonics II, paper 14104-21
52.
Reconfigurable Deep Photonic Recurrent Networks for Optical Information Processing
SPIE Photonics Europe
(2026), Machine Learning in Photonics II, paper 14104-40
51.
Design rule-compliant inverse design for silicon photonics using deep generative networks with embedded length-scale constraints
SPIE Photonics West
(2026), Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures XVI, paper 13909-38
50.
Transformer-based learned dimensional collapse for silicon photonic inverse design
SPIE Photonics West
(2026), Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXXIV, paper 13890-70
49.
Thermally reconfigurable broadband silicon photonic splitter
SPIE Photonics West
(2026), Silicon Photonics XXI, paper 13902-30
48.
Random deep photonic processor for high-throughput optical inference with cascaded MZI arrays
SPIE Photonics West
(2026), AI and Optical Data Sciences VII, paper 13906-82
47.
Photonic imitation learning for control tasks using deep photonic agentic networks
SPIE Photonics West
(2026), Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits 2026, paper 13901-23
46.
Experimental Demonstration of Ultra-Wideband Tapers, Splitters and Crossings with sub-0.1dB Loss Through Computationally Efficient and Data-Driven Eigenmode Expansion
CLEO®/Europe-EQEC 2025
(2025), Integrated Optical Devices 2, CK-2.2
45.
Machine-learning-based integrated photonic device optimization with data-driven eigenmode expansion
SPIE Photonics West
(2024), Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVIII
44.
A wideband silicon photonic duplexer constructed from a deep photonic network of custom Mach-Zehnder interferometers
SPIE Photonics West
(2024), Silicon Photonics XIX
43.
Experimental demonstration of a broadband, ultra-compact, and fabrication-tolerant silicon photonic 10% power tap
SPIE Photonics West
(2024), Silicon Photonics XIX
42.
Towards universal polarization handling with silicon-based deep photonic networks
SPIE Photonics West
(2024), Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVIII
41.
Optimizing photonic devices under fabrication variations with deep photonic networks
SPIE Photonics West
(2024), Silicon Photonics XIX
40.
Accelerating simulations in inverse photonic design through factorization caching
SPIE Photonics West
(2024), Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXXII
39.
Deep photonic networks for on-chip dispersion control and optimization
SPIE Photonics West
(2024), Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits
38.
Physically Accurate Fast Nanophotonic Simulations with Physics Informed Model and Training
NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences
(2023)
37.
Optical Neural Networks with Arbitrary and Wideband Photonic Functionality
Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science
(2022), paper JW4B.40
36.
Efficient Waveguide Taper Design with Rapid and Data-Driven Eigenmode Expansion
Photonics North
(2022)
35.
Compact adiabatic silicon photonic filters with arbitrary and ultra-broadband response
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC)
(2022), Postdeadline Paper Th4C.3
34.
Integrated Optical Phased Arrays for LiDAR, Communications, Augmented Reality, and Beyond
Applied Industrial Optics: Spectroscopy, Imaging and Metrology
(2021), M2A.3
33.
Compact and Broadband Silicon Photonic Multiplexers Based on Fast Adiabatic Structures
CLEO: QELS Fundamental Science
(2021), JW1A. 23
32.
Multi-Scale Hierarchical Topology Optimization for Nanophotonic Design
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics
(2020), ITu4A. 11, poster+presentation
31.
Integrated Dichroic Filtering for Octave-spanning Silicon Photonics
Novel Optical Materials and Applications
(2019), paper NoW1B-2
30.
An optical frequency synthesizer using an integrated erbium tunable laser
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2019), paper SW4G.6
29.
Silicon photonics optical frequency synthesizer-SPOFS
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2019), paper ATh4I.2
28.
Integrated CMOS-compatible Q-Switched-Mode-Locked Laser at 1.9 µm with On-Chip Artificial Saturable Absorber
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics
(2018), paper IM3B.2
27.
Integrated rare-Earth doped mode-locked lasers on a CMOS platform
SPIE Photonics Europe
(2018), vol. 10686, p. 106860F
26.
Silicon-photonics-based optical frequency synthesizer
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2018), paper SM3L.1
25.
CMOS-Compatible Tunable Vernier Ring Laser using Erbium Doped Waveguide on a Silicon Photonics Platform
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2018), paper SW3B.4
24.
CMOS-Compatible Optical Phased Arrays with Monolithically-Integrated Erbium Lasers
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2018), paper STu4B.2
23.
Monolithically Integrated Holmium Lasers on Silicon Chips
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2018), paper SF1A.6
22.
Four-Wave Mixing in a High-Q Aluminum Oxide Microcavity on Silicon
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2018), paper STh3I.3
21.
Ultra-narrow-linewidth erbium-doped lasers on a silicon photonics platform
SPIE OPTO
(2018), Silicon Photonics XIII, vol. 10537, p. 1053712
20.
Thulium-doped distributed feedback and distributed Bragg reflector lasers on silicon chips
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), Conference on
(2017)
19.
Reliable Silicon Photonic Light Source Using Curved Distributed Feedback Lasers
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics
(2017), paper ITu2A-5
18.
Demonstration of athermally synchronized distributed feedback laser with microring filter
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2017), paper STh3N.6
17.
Octave spanning supercontinuum generation in silicon from 1.1 μm to beyond 2.4 μm
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2017), paper STu4J.7
16.
Frequency-domain measurement of spontaneous emission lifetime in rare-earth-doped gain media
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2017), paper SM1K.3
15.
Microlasers based on high-Q rare-earth-doped aluminum oxide resonators on silicon
SPIE OPTO
(2017), Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXI, vol. 10106, p. 1010602
14.
Mode-evolution-based, broadband 1× 2 port high-pass/low-pass filter for silicon photonics
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2017), paper Th1G.2
13.
Fully-Integrated CMOS-Compatible Q-Switched Laser at 1.9µm Using Thulium-Doped Al2O3
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2017), paper STh3N.2
12.
High-power CMOS-compatible photonic integrated thulium-doped distributed feedback laser
IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC): 702-703
(2016)
11.
Ultra-compact CMOS-compatible ytterbium microlaser
Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics
(2016), paper IW1A-3
10.
Laser frequency stabilization using Pound-Drever-Hall technique with an integrated TiO2 athermal resonator
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2016), paper STu1H.3
9.
Fully CMOS-compatible integrated distributed feedback laser with 250 C fabricated Al2O3:Er3+ gain medium
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2016), paper SM1G.2
8.
On-Chip and Silicon-Compatible Er-Doped Aluminum Oxide Lasers
Meeting Abstracts of The Electrochemical Society
(2016), no. 42, pp. 2114-2114
7.
1.8-μm thulium microlasers integrated on silicon
SPIE OPTO
(2016), Optical Components and Materials XIII, vol. 9744, p. 97440U
6.
Self-pulsing in Erbium-doped fiber laser
Optoelectronics Global Conference (OGC): 1-2
(2015)
5.
Compact Rare-Earth-Doped Microring Lasers Monolithically Integrated on Silicon Chips
The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO Europe): CK_12_2
(2015)
4.
Integrated mode-locked lasers in a CMOS-compatible silicon photonic platform
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), Conference on
(2015), paper SM2I.5
3.
Micro-Photoluminescence for Optoelectronic Material Characterization
APS Meeting Abstracts
(2012)
2.
Efficiency Analysis and Demonstration of Split-Junction Photovoltaic Solar cells
APS Meeting Abstracts
(2012)
1.
3+1 multijunction testing and operations platform for improved PV and TPV efficiencies
Innovative Technologies for an Efficient and Reliable Electricity Supply (CITRES): 116–120
(2010)