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Nanotechnology

Nanophotonics

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Projects and Programs

Micro- and nano-optomechanical systems

Ongoing
Our primary current research direction involves the use of fabricated devices with sub-wavelength periodicity (photonic crystals) as optomechanical elements. Such structures enable a rich variety of devices, including mirrors, polarizers, and filters, in a configuration that couples naturally to

Measuring Light-Matter Interactions in Chip-Based Optical Cavities

Ongoing
A "single emitter" is a structure that exhibits a transition from a high energy state to a low energy state, thereby generating a photon, or light emission. A variety of solid-state single emitters have been discovered or manufactured. One example is a quantum dot, a nanometer-scale structure that
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Integrated Photonics

Ongoing
The Integrated Photonics Project utilizes heterogeneous materials integration to demonstrate novel optoelectronic devices such as semiconductor lasers, wavelength converters, and polarization rotators with compact form. We use materials including silicon, silicon dioxide, tantalum pentoxide, and

Publications

Nanophotonic oscillators for laser conversion beyond an octave

Author(s)
Grant Brodnik, Haixin Liu, David Carlson, Jennifer Black, Scott Papp
Many uses of lasers place the highest importance on access to specific wavelength bands. For example, mobilizing optical-atomic clocks for a leap in sensing

Enhanced zero-phonon line emission from an ensemble of W centers in circular and bowtie Bragg grating cavities

Author(s)
Vijin Kizhake Veetil, Junyeob Song, Pradeep Namboodiri, Nikki Ebadollahi, Ashish Chanana, Aaron Katzenmeyer, Christian Pederson, Joshua Pomeroy, Jeff Chiles, Jeff Shainline, Kartik Srinivasan, Marcelo Davanco, Matthew Pelton
Color centers in silicon have recently gained considerable attention as a single-photon source [1,2] and as a spin qubit-photon interface [3] for quantum

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