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
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University- 2009

 
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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. Local temperature control of photonic crystal devices via micron-scale electrical heaters, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, (arXiv:0904.4224)
  2. High-brightness single photon source from a quantum dot in a directional-emission nanocavity, Dirk Englund, Mitsuru Toishi, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, (arXiv:0904.1262)
  3. Coherent excitation of a strongly coupled quantum dot-cavity system, Dirk Englund, Arka Majumdar, Andrei Faraon, Mitsuru Toishi, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, (arXiv:0902.2428)
  4. Quantum dots in photonic crystals: From quantum information processing to single photon nonlinear optics, Dirk Englund, Ilya Fushman, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2009)
  5. 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, Nature Physics, 4, 859 - 863 (2008) (2008) (arXiv:0804.2740)
  6. Dipole induced transparency in waveguide coupled photonic crystal cavities, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Optics Express, Vol 16, pp 12154-12162 (2008)
  7. Gallium Phosphide Photonic Crystal Nanocavities in the Visible, Kelley Rivoire, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Applied Physics Letters, Vol 93, article 063103 (2008) (arXiv:0807.2623)
  8. Probing the interaction between a single quantum dot and a photonic crystal cavity, Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Physica Status Solidi c , Vol 5, No. 9, pp 2808-2815 (2008)
  9. 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).  Highlights: See also articles by Stanford Report, CompoundSemi News, Technology Research News 
  10.   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)
  11. 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)
  12.   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).  This article was highlighted in the Editors' Choice section of Science magazine
  13. Efficient photonic crystal cavity-waveguide couplers , Andrei Faraon, Dirk Englund, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, Edo Waks, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, article 073102 (2007)
  14. 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. Quantum information processing on photonic crystal chips, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, SPIE Newsroom (2008)
  2. 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)
  3. 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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