Former ACP principal scientist Prof. Rachel Grange, now at ETH Zurich.

ETH 1st Photonics Online Meetup 2020

The first online conference in the field of photonics organized by our partner ETH Zurich, even before the onset of the pandemic.
Former ACP principal scientist Prof. Rachel Grange, now at ETH Zurich.
Image: ETH Zurich / D-​PHYS Heidi Hostettler

The online meeting took place on January 13, 2020.


Topic 1: Integrated optics Chair: Rachel Grange, Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  • 2:00-2:05 pm Opening Remarks
    Andrea Armani (University of Southern California, USA), Orad Reshef (University of Ottawa, Canada)

  • 2:05-2:35 pm Topological photonics in active platforms, invited Mercedeh Khajavikhan CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA

  • 2:35 – 2:53 pm Graphene-oxide-silicon micro-ring resonators with enhanced all-optical resonance-tuning
    Aneesh Dash, Ujwol Palanchoke, Marc Gely, Guillaume Jourdan, Sebastien Hentz, Shankar Kumar Selvaraja, Akshay Naik IISc Bangalore, India

  • 2:55 – 3:13 pm Microwave Plasmonics: 500 GHz plasmonic modulators enabling sub-THz microwave photonics
    Maurizio Burla, Claudia Hoessbacher, Wolfgang Heni, Christian Haffner, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Dominik Werner, Tatsuhiko Watanabe, Yannick Salamin, Hermann Massler, Delwin L. Elder, Larry R. Dalton, Juerg Leuthold
    ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Fraunhofer IAF, Germany, University of Washington, USA

  • 3:15 – 3:33 pm Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanophotonics
    Kim Sejeong, Igor Aharonovich
    University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Topic 2: Nanoscale Quantum optics

Chair: Riccardo Sapienza, Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London UK

  • 3:50-4:20 pm Invited talk
    Mete Atature
    University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK

  • 4:20 – 4:38 pm All-photonic quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping using on-demand solid-state quantum emitters
    Francesco Basso Basset, Michele B Rota, Christian Schimpf, Davide Tedeschi, Marcus Reindl, Daniel Huber, Katharina D Zeuner, Saimon F Covre da Silva, Huiying Huang, Val Zwiller, Klaus D JÃns, Armando Rastelli, Rinaldo Trotta
    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden

  • 4:40 – 4:58 pm A three-dimensional polymeric platform for photonic quantum technologies
    Maja Colautti, Pietro Lombardi, Marco Trapuzzano, Francesco S. Piccioli, Sofia Pazzagli, Bruno Tiribilli, Sara Nocentini, Francesco S. Cataliotti, Diederik Wiersma, Costanza Toninelli
    European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS), Italy, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Italy, National Institute of Optics (CNR-INO), Italy, Institute for Complex Systems (CNR-ISC), Italy

  • 5:00 – 5:18 pm Quantum optics with nanoscale waveguides and cold atoms
    Julien Laurat, Neil V. Corzo, Jeremy Raskop, Jeremy Berroir, Aveek Chandra, Tridib Ray, Alban Urvoy, Adrien Bouscal, Alexandra S. Sheremet, Baptiste Gouraud Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne University, CNRS, ENS-University PSL, France

Topic 3: Optical Materials

Chair: Mikhail Kats, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Madison USA

  • 5:35-6:05 pm Invited talk
    Nader Engheta
    University of Pennsylvania, USA

  • 6:05 – 6:23 pm Time refraction in an epsilon-near-zero material
    Jeremy Upham, M. Zahirul Alam, Yiyu Zhou, Mohammad Karimi, Orad Reshef, Cong Liu, Alan E. Willner, Robert W. Boyd
    University of Ottawa, Canada, University of Rochester, USA, University of Southern California, USA

  • 6:25 – 6:43 pm Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Structures with Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks
    Christopher Yeung, Ju-Ming Tsai, Aaswath Raman
    University of California, Los Angeles, USA

  • 6:45 – 7:03 pm Grapes, Microwave Photonics, and the Shape of Water
    Aaron Slepkov, Hamza K Khattak, Miao Hu
    Trent University, Canada, new position at McMaster University, Canada

  • 7:05 – 7:20 pm Closing Remarks
    Andrea Armani, Orad Reshef
    Conference Chairs