TY - JOUR
T1 - T -operator limits on optical communication
T2 - Metaoptics, computation, and input-output transformations
AU - Molesky, S.
AU - Chao, P.
AU - Mohajan, J.
AU - Reinhart, W.
AU - Chi, H.
AU - Rodriguez, A. W.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under the Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program, Grant No. EFMA-1640986, the Cornell Center for Materials Research (MRSEC) through Award No. DMR-1719875, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under Grant Agreements No. HR00112090011, No. HR00111820046, and No. HR0011047197. The views, opinions, and findings expressed herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representative of any institution.
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PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - We present an optimization framework based on Lagrange duality and the scattering T-operator of electromagnetism to construct limits on the possible features that may be imparted to a collection of output fields from a collection of given input fields, i.e., constraints on achievable optical transformations and the characteristics of structured materials as communication channels. Implications of these bounds on the performance of representative optical devices having multiwavelength or multiport functionalities are examined in the context of electromagnetic shielding, focusing, near-field resolution, and linear math kernels.
AB - We present an optimization framework based on Lagrange duality and the scattering T-operator of electromagnetism to construct limits on the possible features that may be imparted to a collection of output fields from a collection of given input fields, i.e., constraints on achievable optical transformations and the characteristics of structured materials as communication channels. Implications of these bounds on the performance of representative optical devices having multiwavelength or multiport functionalities are examined in the context of electromagnetic shielding, focusing, near-field resolution, and linear math kernels.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.013020
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.013020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123734324
SN - 2643-1564
VL - 4
JO - Physical Review Research
JF - Physical Review Research
IS - 1
M1 - 013020
ER -