Photonic Design: Reaching the Limits of Light-Matter Interactions

Nanoscience is developing at a rapid pace, with ever more materials, form factors, and structural degrees of freedom now available. To confront these large design spaces, and leverage them for transformative technologies, new theoretical tools are needed. Across a range of photonics applications, I will demonstrate that the combination of large-scale computational optimization with new analytical frameworks enables rapid identification of superior designs, and spurs discovery of fundamental limits to wave-matter interactions.