New Advances in Nanophotonic Device Physics

Advanced silicon and plasmonic nanophotonics is undergoing rapid progress due to its manifold applications in high data communication links and other applications in imaging and sensing. Our group has been at the forefront of new devices and device physics. In this talk we will first review progress in our group in a wide variety of fundamental technologies and physics needed to extend the advances in nanophotonics. We will then illustrate these ideas with several new devices types that we have recently demonstrated at Columbia based on new simulation modalities. Our approach then to modeling and simulation is to use fully accurate methods and techniques and to achieve new capabilities based on massively parallel and high-performance computation. Much of our advances are based on new hardware strengths and testing with distributed and parallel systems.