Andrei Faraon

Ph.D Student, Applied Physics, Stanford University

 
Contact info:
Applied Physics, Stanford University, 316 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
email: faraon at stanford.edu
 Education
B.S. in Physics with Honors, California Institute of Technology - 2004

 
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 Research

Research Interests

I am currently in the nanoscale and quantum photonics lab of Prof. Jelena Vuckovic. I work on quantum optics experiments with quantum dots and photonic crystals. My  focus is on building integrated photonic crystal networks for classical and quantum information processing

Publications

  1. Controlled Phase Shifts with a Single Quantum Dot, Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Science, vol. 320, number 5877, pp. 769-772 (2008)
  2. Coherent generation of nonclassical light on a chip via photon-induced tunneling and blockade, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, arXiv:0804.2740
  3.   Local Tuning of Photonic Crystal Cavities Using Chalcogenide Glasses Andrei Faraon, Dirk Englund, Douglas Bulla, Barry Luther-Davies, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Applied Physics Letters, Vol 92, article 043123 (2008)
  4. Controlling Cavity Reflectivity With a Single Quantum Dot , Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Nature, vol. 450, number 7171, pp. 857-861 (2007)
  5.   Local Quantum Dot Tuning on Photonic Crystal Chips , Andrei Faraon, Dirk Englund, Ilya Fushman, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Applied Physics Letters, Vol 90, article 213110 (2007)
  6. Efficient photonic crystal cavity-waveguide couplers , Andrei Faraon, Dirk Englund, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, Edo Waks, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, article 073102 (2007)
  7. Generation and Transfer of Single Photons on a Photonic Crystal Chip , Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Bingyang Zhang, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, and Jelena Vuckovic, Optics Express, Vol. 15, pp. 5550-5558 (2007)

In Press

  1. Ars technica article about our Science paper on controlled phase shifts with a single quantum dot
  2. Stanford News Service report about the controlled phase shifts paper that appeared in Science 
  3. Quantum information processing on photonic crystal chips, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, SPIE Newsroom (2008)
  4. 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)
  5. A podcast interview (in Romanian) I gave on www.stiinta.info about the results publised in Nature (12/6/07).

Work related

Movie - pulse propagation between two photonic crystal cavities
Matlab simulation - Leaky mode spectrum of dipoles strongly coupled to Fabry-Perot cavities
Personal

In brief

I was born and I grew up in Falticeni, Romania. I am married to Viviana Gradinaru , a Caltech alumna and a Ph.D student in the Neuroscience Department at Stanford University.

Pictures - My Picasa web album

Enjoy My mother's art - Mariana Faraon

Random Stuff

I made this movie of my plant moving after sunlight. It is impressing how much a plant can move during just one day.

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