Matthew Rakher

Matthew Rakher is a CNST Postdoctoral Researcher in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. He received a B.S. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he studied optical quantum computation. Matthew earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of California Santa Barbara, where he performed quantum optics research on quantum dots embedded in optical microcavities. Matthew is currently working with Kartik Srinivasan in the CNST on the development of new tools and methods for optical spectroscopy of nanoscale systems.

• Strong coupling through optical positioning of a quantum dot in a photonic crystal cavity, S.M. Thon, M.T. Rakher, H. Kim, J. Gudat, W.T.M. Irvine, P.M. Petroff, and D. Bouwmeester, Applied Physics Letters 94, 11115 (2009).
• Externally mode-matched cavity quantum electrodynamics with charge-tunable quantum dots, M. T. Rakher, N. G. Stoltz, L. A. Coldren, P. M. Petroff, and D. Bouwmeester, Physical Review Letters 102, 097403 (2009).
• High-frequency single-photon source with polarization control, S. Strauf, N. G. Stoltz, M. T. Rakher, L. A. Coldren, P. M. Petroff, and D. Bouwmeester, Nature Photonics 1, 704 (2007).
• Self-tuned quantum dot gain in photonic crystal lasers, S. Strauf, K. Hennessy, M. T. Rakher, Y.-S. Choi, A. Badolato, L. C. Andreani, E. L. Hu, P. M. Petroff, and D. Bouwmeester, Physical Review Letters 96, 127404 (2006).
• Counterfactual quantum computation through quantum interrogation, O. Hosten, M. T. Rakher, J. T. Barreiro, N. A. Peters, and P. G. Kwiat, Nature 439, 949 (2006).