Title:  A Hybrid Platform for Wideband Reconfigurable Nonlinear Metamaterials

Committee: 

Dr. Adibi, Advisor

Dr. Chang, Chair

Dr. Klein

Abstract: The objective of the proposed research is to demonstrate a hybrid platform for wideband reconfigurable nonlinear photonic metamaterials. The platform is composed of hybridized reconfigurable phase-change material and static amorphous silicon nano- building blocks to manipulate nonlinear light interactions at the subwavelength scale. Frequency conversion process third-harmonic generation and frequency preserving nonlinear phenomenon optical Kerr effect can find novel subwavelength tunabilities with this platform. The proposed research has potential in on-chip applications for nonlinear optical imaging, communication, and computing.