Research interests
Broad definition: experimental and theoretical research in quantum and nanoscale photonics.
Topics include:
- photonic crystal devices and integration
- solid-state photonic quantum information technologies
- cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) in solid-state
- nanofabrication
See also our
MURI Center for Photonic Quantum Information Systems
Research facilities
Optics: Our optics labs are in Ginzton, rooms
52 and
53 (with equipment including Ti:sapphire laser in the ps and fs configuration, He-flow cryostats, streak camera, high-resolution spectrometer, tunable telecom lasers, OSA, single photon counters...)
Fabrication: Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF) (shared, state-of-the-art fabrication labs).
Design: Three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) software; a computer cluster with 22 Intel Xeon processors and 22GB RAM
(90% of the cluster donated by
Intel);
Tesla S870 system, donated by
NVIDIA.
News
- Coherent generation of nonclassical light on a chip via photon-induced tunneling and blockade (4/17/08),
published in Nature Physics (9/22/08)
- Gallium Phosphide Photonic Crystal Nanocavities in the Visible (7/18/08),
published in Applied Physics Letters (8/14/08)
- Dirk's PhD thesis is completed (8/5/08)
- Dipole induced transparency in waveguide coupled photonic crystal cavities, published in Optics Express
(7/29/08)
- Ultrafast photonic crystal lasers, published in Lasers and Photonics Reviews (7/21/08)
- Probing the interaction between a single quantum dot and a photonic
crystal cavity, published in Physica Status Solidi c (6/28/08)
- Congratulations to Dirk and Ilya for successfully defending their PhD theses (6/06/08)
- A team from our group has won 2nd place in the BASES I-challenge (5/27/08)
- Controlled Phase Shifts with a Single Quantum Dot, published in Science (5/9/08),
highlighted by Stanford Report,
CompoundSemi News,
Technology Research News,
Technology Research News,
photonics.com,
Semiconductor International,
physorg.com (5/21/08)
- Quantum information processing on photonic crystal chips, published in SPIE newsroom
(4/25/08)
- Enhanced light emission in photonic crystal nanocavities with Erbium-doped silicon nanocrystals, published in Applied Physics Letters
(4/22/08)
- Earlier news