Projects

Quantum optics, cavity QED and quantum information processing with quantum dots in photonic crystals

Arka, Erik, Michal

Single quantum dot switches and modulators

Arka, Erik

Electrically injected active III-V lasers and modulators

Gary, Jan

Silicon Germanium photonics

Gary, Jan

Inverse photonic crystal design

Jesse

Nonlinear optics in photonic crystals

Kelley, Sonia, Marina

Atoms and photonic crystal cavities

Michal, Kelley, Arka

Videos of our research

Inverse Photonic Crystal Design

We are devising faster, more versatile methods which are capable of designing complex nanophotonic devices. Below is a short video explaining the most recent algorithm that we've developed.

Publications:

1. Inverse design of a three-dimensional nanophotonic resonator, Jesse Lu, Stephen Boyd, and Jelena Vuckovic, Optics Express, 19, pp. 10563-10570 (2011).
   
2. Inverse design of nanophotonic structures using complementary convex optimization, Jesse Lu, Jelena Vuckovic ((Paper))
3. General recipe for designing photonic crystal cavities, Dirk Englund, Ilya Fushman, and Jelena Vuckovic, Optics Express, Vol. 13, No. 16, pp. 5961 - 5975 (2005) (arXiv:physics/0507156)