Organizers
Logan Wright, NTT Research/Cornell, USA
Marco Piccardo, Harvard/Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
A central goal of photonics research is judicious and rich control of light. Techniques to control light’s spatial, temporal, spectral and vectorial properties are many. While multimodal shaping often relies on linear optics, many breakthroughs have required mastery of fundamentally nonlinear multimode physics, such as lasing, mode-locking and parametric down-conversion. Today, the motivation to precisely control light in many — and many more — diverse modes is often driven by nonlinear and quantum optical phenomena, such as high-field light-matter interactions or high-dimensional entanglement. Designing nonlinear and quantum physics is, however, notoriously difficult, challenging intuition with even a few degrees of freedom. Computationally intensive methods like inverse design present a promising option, but are still immature for nonlinear and quantum systems. The question thus remains wide open: How can we design — and understand — complex nonlinear and quantum photonic systems?
The goal of this special symposium is to bring together diverse perspectives on the control and design of multimode quantum and nonlinear optical systems, and to begin to answer this question. While linear complex photonic devices and applications overlap with this symposium’s subject, we ask speakers to look beyond linearity, to identify the challenges, opportunities and solutions, for complex nonlinear and quantum photonics.
Invited Speakers
Mehul Malik, University of Rochester, USA
Harnessing Complexity for Manipulating Spatiotemporal Entanglement
Alireza Marandi, California Institute of Technology, USA
Nonlinear Resonator Networks: From Complex Optics to Advanced Computing and Sensing
Sergei Turitsyn, Aston University, UK
Machine Learning for Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Systems
Spencer Jolly, ULB, Belgium
Bridging Free-Sand Guided-Wave Space-Time Optics
Sergio Carbajo, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Ultrafast Structured Light Architectures from THz to X-rays
Mario Chemnitz, Leibniz-Institut für Photonische Tech, Germany
Programmable Optical Fibers for Advanced Linear and Nonlinear Mode Control
Tyler Hughes, Flexcompute Inc., USA
Inverse Design of Large Scale Nonlinear Optics Platforms Using a Hardware Accelerated Solver
Tatsuhiro Onodera, NTT Research, USA
Machine Learning with Nonlinear Optical Wave Propagation
Zahra Eslami, Tampere University, Finland
Towards Soft-Glass GRIN Optical Fibers: A New Avenue for Multimode Nonlinear Photonics
Vincent Ginis, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Combining Cascaded-Mode Optics and Machine Learning: A New Perspective for Inverse Design of Multimode Optical Devices
Melissa Guidry, Stanford University, USA
Multimode Squeezing in Soliton Crystal Microcombs
Nina Meinzer, Nature Physics, UK
Overview of Recent Trends in Complex Optics: An Editor’s Perspective
Luana Olivieri, University of Sussex, UK
Beyond 2D Imaging with Sparse Spatiotemporal Terahertz Fields