Andrei Faraon Postdoctoral Fellow HP Laboratories 1501 Page Mill Rd Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA email: andrei. faraon at gmail.com
Education Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Stanford University- 2009 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University- 2009 B.S. in Physics with Honors, California Institute of Technology - 2004
Research Research Interests I am currently in the Information and Quantum Systems Lab at Hewlett Packard, working on micro and nano- scale and quantum photonics. I did my PhD at Stanford University, in lab of Prof. Jelena Vuckovic. I worked on quantum optics experiments with quantum dots and photonic crystals. My focus was on building integrated photonic crystal networks for classical and quantum information processing Publications 1. An optical modulator based on a single strongly coupled quantum dot - cavity system in a p-i-n junction, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Optics Express, Vol 17, pp 18651-18658 (2009) 2. Deterministic generation of non-classical states of light using photon blockade, Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Jelena Vuckovic (arXiv:0908.4303) 3. Fast, High Fidelity Quantum Dot Spin Initialization without a Strong Magnetic Field by Two-Photon Processes, Arka Majumdar, Ziliang Lin, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic (arXiv:0907.3187) 4. Fast Electrical Control of a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Nano-resonator, Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Hyochul Kim, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic (arXiv:0906.0751) 5. Single photon nonlinear optics on photonic crystal chips, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, SPIE Newsroom (2009) 6. Local temperature control of photonic crystal devices via micron-scale electrical heaters, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, (arXiv:0904.4224) 7. 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) 8. 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) 9. 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) 10. 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) 11. 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) 12. 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) 13. 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) 14. Controlled Phase Shifts with a Single Quantum Dot, Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon[co-first author], 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 15. Quantum information processing on photonic crystal chips, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, SPIE Newsroom (2008) 16. 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) 17. Controlling Cavity Reflectivity With a Single Quantum Dot , Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon[co-first author], Ilya Fushman, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Nature, vol. 450, number 7171, pp. 857-861 (2007) 18. 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 19. Efficient photonic crystal cavity-waveguide couplers , Andrei Faraon, Dirk Englund, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, Edo Waks, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, article 073102 (2007) 20. 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) PhD Thesis - Locally Controlled Photonic Crystal Devices with Coupled Quantum Dots: Physics and Applications In Press 1. 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) 2. 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. Friends Webpages · Mihail Amarie - Princeton University · Bogdan Dumitru -  Google · Dirk Englund - Harvard · Ilya Fushman - Solar Junction · Gaby Stredie