Optoelectronics

News and Updates

NIST-Designed Photonic Chip Transforms a Single Beam of Light Into Multiple Beams, Each With a Panoply of Different Properties

June 30, 2023

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a photonic circuit on a chip that transforms a single incoming beam of

Jun Ye: A Timely Profile

June 26, 2023

Physicist Jun Ye has a knack for making every second count—literally. At JILA, a joint research institute of the University of Colorado and the National

Manipulating Multiple Lasers on a Single Chip: Paving the Way for a New Generation of Quantum Devices

April 10, 2023

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed chip-scale devices for simultaneously manipulating the color, focus

Events

Quantum Matters in Materials Science Workshop

Wed, Feb 21 - Thu, Feb 22 2024

As a part of the JARVIS workshops series, NIST is organizing the 3rd Quantum Matters in Materials Science (QMMS)

Projects and Programs

Femtosecond Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Materials

Ongoing

Condensed matter dynamics can evolve on a subpicosecond timescale, too fast to follow using many characterization techniques. We use femtosecond optical pulses

Single Photonics and Quantum Information

Ongoing

The smallest unit of light is a "photon". Generation, manipulation and measurement of light at or near the fundamental limit of a photon can enhance the

GaN Nanowire Growth

Ongoing

GaN nanowires grown by catalyst-free molecular beam epitaxy have the unique property that most nanowires are completely free of crystalline defects. This

Waveform Metrology Project

Ongoing

The Waveform Metrology Project provides measurement and algorithmic support for waveform traceability to the optics and high-frequency electronics industries

Publications

Studies of spatial uniformity and jitter in SiC UV SPADs

June 15, 2023

Author(s)

Joshua Bienfang, Edwin J. Heilweil, Anand Sampath, Gregory Garrett, Jonathan Shuster, Jeremy Smith, Michael Derenge, Daniel Habersat, Reza Gandhi, Sergei Dolinsky, Enrico Bellotti, michael wrabeck

Ultraviolet single-photon avalanche detectors (UV-SPAD) that are low cost, size, weight, and power as well as resilient to shock, high temperatures and stray

Demonstration of Superconducting Optoelectronic Single-Photon Synapses

October 6, 2022

Author(s)

Saeed Khan, Bryce Primavera, Jeff Chiles, Adam McCaughan, Sonia Buckley, Alexander Tait, Adriana Lita, John Biesecker, Anna Fox, David Olaya, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Jeff Shainline

Superconducting optoelectronic hardware is being explored as a path towards artificial spiking neural networks with unprecedented scales of complexity and

Tightly Confined Surface Acoustic Waves as Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Platforms in the Quantum Regime

September 26, 2022

Author(s)

Ryan DeCrescent, Zixuan Wang, Poolad Imany, Robert Boutelle, Corey McDonald, Travis Autry, John Teufel, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin

Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) coupled to quantum dots (QDs), trapped atoms and ions, and point defects have been proposed as quantum transduction platforms, yet

All-Printed Ultrahigh-Responsivity MoS2 Nanosheet Photodetectors Enabled by Megasonic Exfoliation

July 5, 2022

Author(s)

Lee J. Richter, Lidia Kuo, Vinod Sangwan, Sonal Rangnekar, Ting-Ching Chu, David Lam, Shehao Zhu, Ruipeng Li, Julia Downing, Benjamin Luijten, Lincoln Lauhon, Mark Hersam

Printed two-dimensional materials, derived from solution-processed inks, offer scalable and cost-effective routes to mechanically flexible optoelectronics. With

Software

On-Wafer Calibration Software

NIST Microwave Uncertainty Framework (Beta version) The NIST Microwave Uncertainty Framework provides a "drag-and-drop" toolkit for managing the calculation of

Tools and Instruments

Material Analysis Using Neutron Depth Profiling

Light elements such as helium, lithium, boron, and nitrogen are essential constituents in materials that enable energy technologies; lithium ion batteries

Optoelectronics

News and Updates

NIST-Designed Photonic Chip Transforms a Single Beam of Light Into Multiple Beams, Each With a Panoply of Different Properties

Jun Ye: A Timely Profile

Manipulating Multiple Lasers on a Single Chip: Paving the Way for a New Generation of Quantum Devices

Events

Quantum Matters in Materials Science Workshop

Projects and Programs

Femtosecond Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Nanoscale Materials

Single Photonics and Quantum Information

GaN Nanowire Growth

Waveform Metrology Project

Publications

Studies of spatial uniformity and jitter in SiC UV SPADs

Demonstration of Superconducting Optoelectronic Single-Photon Synapses

Tightly Confined Surface Acoustic Waves as Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Platforms in the Quantum Regime

All-Printed Ultrahigh-Responsivity MoS2 Nanosheet Photodetectors Enabled by Megasonic Exfoliation

Software

On-Wafer Calibration Software

Tools and Instruments

Material Analysis Using Neutron Depth Profiling

Awards

Sae Woo Nam Receives 2008 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Paul Boynton Receives 2008 William P. Slichter Award

Lehman, Cromer, and Li Receive 2008 FLC Technology Transfer Award

Igor Vayshenker Receives 2007 Allen V. Astin Award