Computational Photonics

Welcome to our research group dedicated to the simulation and inverse design of nanophotonic devices. Recent advancements in top-down and bottom-up nanofabrication have facilitated the creation of nanostructures with unprecedented precision and complexity, offering unlimited design possibilities, which we aim to explore, also in collaboration with experimental groups.

We investigate and design nanostructures, metasurfaces, metamaterials, photonic crystals, and integrated meta-waveguides, including with dynamic optical tunability and re-programmability. By engineering novel nanophotonic structures and integrated optical systems with tailored optical properties, we aim to advance classical and quantum optical technologies, including for displays, sensing, optical switching, beam steering, and quantum information processing.

Our multidisciplinary team combines expertise in theoretical modeling of advanced optical material properties (dispersion, nonlinearity, nonlocality, time-varying materials), numerical simulation based on finite-difference time- and frequency-domain methods, multipole decomposition, high-performance computing, and inverse design based on adjoint-based topology optimization and machine learning.

Please, check our publications and feel free to get in touch. We are constantly looking for motivated and talented team members interested in shaping the future of computational photonics.