This research develops nanostructured optical devices that dramatically improve camera efficiency by redirecting light rather than discarding unwanted wavelengths. Using nanoscale patterned glass inspired by semiconductor fabrication techniques, the work could produce mobile cameras with significantly better low-light performance, higher image quality, faster imaging, and improved efficiency at ultra-high resolutions.

This research develops photonic integrated circuits that compute using light instead of electrons. By creating integrated all-optical transistors and photonic neural networks, the work advances ultra-fast optical computing systems capable of dramatically outperforming conventional electronic processors in speed, efficiency, and future artificial intelligence applications.

This research develops a quantum transducer, a device that connects quantum computers to fiber optic networks. By converting quantum electrical signals into optical signals at cryogenic temperatures, the technology could enable scalable quantum networking and distributed quantum computing, providing a critical foundation for future large-scale quantum systems and quantum internet infrastructure.

This research develops cavity-based methods for controlling thermal radiation by transforming random heat emission into coherent, directional thermal beams. Unlike traditional narrowband approaches, the technique enables broadband heat control using practical materials such as silicon and germanium, with potential applications in energy efficiency, waste-heat recycling, cooling technologies, and climate mitigation.

This research scales neutral-atom quantum computing using optical tweezer arrays containing over 6,100 cesium atoms trapped across 12,000 tweezers. The work demonstrates record coherence times, high-fidelity atom detection, and controllable atom movement, advancing the development of large-scale quantum computers capable of quantum simulation, computation, sensing, and networking.