Lab 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)
• 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)
• Local Tuning of Photonic Crystal Cavities Using Chalcogenide Glasses (11/5/07), published in Applied Physics Letters (1/31/08)
• Spontaneous Emission Control in High-Extraction Efficiency Plasmonic Crystals (11/30/07), published in Optics Express (1/04/08)
• Q&A, further information about Controlling Cavity Reflectivity With a Single Quantum Dot (12/9/07)
• Controlling Cavity Reflectivity With a Single Quantum Dot, published in Nature (12/6/07), highlighted in Stanford Report and by optics.org (12/7/07)
• Our group's work is highlighted in Laser Focus World (10/01/07)
• Efficient Terahertz Room-Temperature Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser (5/3/07), published in APL (8/17/07)
• Low-Threshold Surface-Passivated Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser (3/22/07), published in APL (8/17/07)
• Genetic Optimization of Photonic Bandgap Structures (4/2/07), published in Optics Express (6/18/07)
• Photonix, a team from our group has won the 3rd place on the BASES E-challenge (6/3/07)
• Our work is featured in Laser Focus World (6/1/07)
• Maria won the Intel Fellowship (6/1/07)
• Local Quantum Dot Tuning on Photonic Crystal Chips (3/29/07), published in APL (5/21/07)
• Generation and Transfer of Single Photons on a Photonic Crystal Chip (9/6/06), published in Optics Express (4/23/07)
• Analysis of a Quantum Nondemolition Measurement Scheme Based on Kerr Nonlinearity in Photonic Crystal Waveguides (4/16/06), published in Optics Express (4/23/07)
• US patent No. 7,206,488, "Coupled photonic crystal resonator array arrangements and applications", H. Altug and J. Vuckovic issued (4/17/2007)
• Dynamics of Quantum Dot Photonic Crystal Lasers (3/7/07), published in APL (4/9/07), one of the most downloaded articles from Applied Physics Letters (4/07)
• Ultra Fast Nonlinear Optical Tuning of Photonic Crystal Cavities (11/29/06), published in APL(3/2/07), highlighted in Nature Photonics (4/07)
• Efficient photonic crystal cavity-waveguide couplers (2/12/07), one of the most downloaded articles from Applied Physics Letters (2/07)
• Design of plasmon cavities for solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics applications (1/18/07)
• Our work on ultrafast lasers featured in Laser Focus World (12/15/06)
• Hatice's Ph.D thesis is completed (12/14/06)
• Patterned femtosecond laser excitation of terahertz leaky modes in GaAs photonic crystals (12/14/06)
• Silicon based photonic crystal nanocavity light emitters (11/27/06), most downloaded research article from Applied Physics Letters (12/06)
• Hatice has successfully defended her PhD thesis (11/27/06)
• Our research group wins 2 out of 5 places in phase I of the Berkeley nano opportunity challenge 2006 (11/15/06)
• Hatice selected as one of the finalists for the LEOS-Newport/Spectra-Physics Annual Student Paper Awards (10/24/06)
• Efficient Photonic Crystal Cavity-Waveguide Couplers (10/12/06)
• Design of plasmon cavities for solid-state cavity QED applications (10/01/06)
• Our work highlighted in Nature Photonics (09/18/06)
• Hatice accepts a faculty position at the Boston University (07/31/06)
• Nature Physics cover and related story on our work (07/04/06)
• Nature Physics: Ultrafast photonic crystal nanocavity laser (07/04/06)
• Edo accepts faculty position at the U. of Maryland (06/26/06)
• Joel receives BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering with honors (06/26/06)
• Andrei and Ilya passed the PhD candidacy exam (06/06/06)
• Phys. Rev. A: Dispersive properties and giant Kerr non-linearities in Dipole Induced Transparency in a Single-Sided Cavity (04/28/06)
• Phys. Rev. Letters: Dipole Induced Transparency in drop filter cavity-waveguide systems (04/26/06)
• Optics Express: A direct analysis of photonic nanostructures (04/18/06)
• Bryan received the NDSEG fellowship (04/17/2006)
• IEEE LEOS Newsletter cover story on our work (04/14/06)
• Joel won the Terman Award for undergraduate achievements (03/01/06)
• Bryan and Yiyang passed the EE PhD qualifying exam (02/01/06)
• Photonics Spectra article on our work (01/25/06)
• Laser Focus World article on our work (01/13/06)
• Coupling of PbS quantum dots to photonic crystal cavities at room temperature (12/05/05)
• Stanford Report story on our work (11/09/005)
• Photonic crystal nanocavity array laser (11/07/005)
• Hatice won the Newport-LEOS best student paper award at IEEE LEOS 2005 (10/24/05)
• School of Engineering Puzzle inspired by our work (10/08/05)
• Our work featured in Nature Physics (10/05/05)
• Dirk passes PhD candidacy exam (08/27/05)
• Hatice selected as one of the finalists for the Newport-LEOS best student paper award at IEEE LEOS 2005 (08/27/05)
• Our work featured on Stanford School of Engineering website (08/27/05)
• Our work highlighted in Nature (optics research highlight) (08/24/05)
• Hatice won the LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship (08/05/05)
• Optics Express: General recipe for designing photonic crystal cavities (07/27/05)
• Phys. Rev. Letters: Controlling the Spontaneous Emission Rate of Single Quantum Dots in a 2D Photonic Crystal (07/01/05)
• Optics Express: Coupled mode theory for photonic crystal cavity-waveguide interaction (06/05)
• Optics Letters: Polarization control and sensing with two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal microcavity arrays (05/05)
• Hatice won the Intel Fellowship (05/02/05)
• Ilya won the NDSEG Fellowship (03/30/05)
• Physics Web news story (03/15/05)
• Maria won the AFCEA Ralph W. Shrader Diversity Scholarship (03/15/05)