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 and S1070 systems, donated by
NVIDIA.
News
- Second harmonic generation in gallium phosphide photonic crystal nanocavities with
ultralow continuous wave pump power (10/27/09)
- Enhanced Light Emission from Erbium Doped Silicon Nitride in Plasmonic Metal-Insulator-Metal Structures
(9/1/09), published in Optics Express (10/26/09)
- Maria successfully defended her PhD thesis (10/1/09)
- Photonic Crystal Cavities in Silicon Dioxide (10/1/09)
- An optical modulator based on a single strongly coupled quantum dot - cavity system in a p-i-n junction
published in Optics Express (10/1/09)
- Andrei's PhD thesis is complete (9/25/09)
- Lithographic positioning of fluorescent molecules on high-Q photonic crystal cavities
published in Applied Physics Letters (9/23/09)
- Deterministic generation of non-classical states of light using photon blockade (9/1/09)
- Electrically controlled modulation in a photonic crystal nanocavity (5/11/09),
published in Optics Express (8/18/09)
- Our work on SiGe LED featured on
Slashdot, in a Stanford School of Engineering press release,
and by Laser Focus World (8/6/09)
- High-brightness single photon source from a quantum dot in a
directional-emission nanocavity (4/9/09),
published in Optics Express (8/4/09)
- Local temperature control of photonic crystal devices via micron-scale electrical heaters (4/28/09),
published in Applied Physics Letters (7/27/09)
- Fast, High Fidelity Quantum Dot Spin Initialization without a Strong Magnetic Field by Two-Photon Processes (7/21/09)
- Bryan won the EE department Outstanding TA award for EE234 (Photonics Laboratory) (6/19/09)
- Room temperature 1.6 um electroluminescence from Ge light emitting diode on Si substrate
published in Optics Express (6/15/09)
- Fast Electrical Control of a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Nano-resonator (6/5/09)
- Andrei successfully defended his PhD thesis (5/11/09)
- Enhanced Two-Photon Processes in Quantum Dots inside Photonic Crystal Nanocavities and Quantum Information Processing Applications (6/1/09)
- Single photon nonlinear optics on photonic crystal chips, published in SPIE newsroom
(5/9/09)
- Time-resolved lasing action from single and
coupled photonic crystal nanocavity array lasers emitting in the telecom band (12/12/08),
published in Journal of Applied Physics (5/8/09)
- Coherent excitation of a strongly coupled quantum dot-cavity system (2/16/09)
- Quantum dots in photonic crystals: From quantum information processing to single photon nonlinear optics
published in Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications (2/4/09)
- Plasmonic Enhancement of Emission from Si-nanocrystals (10/27/08),
published in Applied Physics Letters (1/8/09)
- Our group is featured as one of Network World's
"10 really cool university networking labs" (12/16/08)
- Ilya's PhD thesis is complete (12/15/08)
- Dirk won the best student paper award at MRS Fall meeting (Boston 2008) (12/3/08)
- Videos of our research available on YouTube (12/2/08)
- Andrei was selected as one of the finalists for the 2008 LEOS Annual Student Paper Awards (11/10/08)
- 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)
- Earlier news