ETH 1st Photonics Online Meetup 2020

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