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Marcelo Davanco (Fed)

Marcelo Davanço is a Research Scientist in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan and then also at the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. Marcelo has worked on a variety of topics related to the field of nanophotonics: InP-based photonic integrated circuits and photonic crystals, optical metamaterials, organic microcavities with strong exciton-photon coupling, hemispherical organic focal plane arrays, quantum-dot based single-photon sources, nonlinear integrated photonic devices, and nanophotonic cavity optomechanical systems. He is currently working with CNST researchers and external collaborators in developing measurement and fabrication techniques to advance the application of nanophotonics in sensing, imaging, and future electronics.

Selected Publications

  • Electromagnetically induced transparency and wideband wavelength conversion in silicon nitride microdisk optomechanical resonators, Y. Liu, M. Davanço, V. Aksyuk, and K. Srinivasan, Physical Review Letters 110, 223603 (2013).
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  • Slot-mode-coupled optomechanical crystals, M. Davanço, J. Chan, A. H. Safavi-Naeini, O. Painter, and K. Srinivasan, Optics Express 20, 24394–24410 (2012).
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  • Low-noise chip-based frequency conversion by four-wave-mixing Bragg scattering in SiNx waveguides, I. Agha, M. Davanço, B. Thurston, and K. Srinivasan, Optics Letters 37, 2997–2999 (2012).
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  • Telecommunications-band heralded single photons from a silicon nanophotonic chip, M. Davanço, J. R. Ong, A. B. Shehata, A. Tosi, I. Agha, S. Assefa, F. Xia, W. M. J. Green, S. Mookherjea, and K. Srinivasan, Applied Physics Letters 100, 261104 (2012).
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  • Efficient quantum dot single photon extraction into an optical fiber using a nanophotonic directional coupler, M. Davanço, M. T. Rakher, W. Wegscheider, D. Schuh, A. Badolato, and K. Srinivasan, Applied Physics Letters 99, 121101 (2011).
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  • A circular dielectric grating for vertical extraction of single quantum dot emission, M. Davanço, M. T. Rakher, D. Schuh, A. Badolato, and K. Srinivasan, Applied Physics Letters 99, 041102 (2011).
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Publications

Ultra-low loss quantum photonic circuits integrated with single quantum emitters

Author(s)
Ashish Chanana, Hugo Larocque, Renan Moreira, Jacques Carolan, Biswarup Guha, Emerson Goncalves De Melo, Vikas Anant, Jin Dong Song, Dirk Englund, Daniel Blumenthal, Marcelo Davanco, Kartik Srinivasan
Photon-based photonic quantum information systems require both scalable ultra-low loss photonic circuits and high-flux sources of single-photons. Direct

Patents (2018-Present)

SINGLE QUANTUM EMITTER SINGLE PHOTON SOURCE AND PRODUCING A SINGLE PHOTON STREAM

NIST Inventors
Marcelo Davanco
patent description The invention is an integrated photonic device which allows production of a pure stream of on-chip waveguide-bound indistinguishable single-photons from the resonance fluorescence of a single quantum emitter embedded in a multimode on-chip waveguide, for which the quantum emitter

Photonic probe for atomic force microscopy

NIST Inventors
Marcelo Davanco and Vladimir Aksyuk
Patent Description Atomic force microscopy probes with integrated photonic optomechanical cavity readout are new and provide improved sensitivity, increased measurement speed and reduced measurement noise in a variety of research and manufacturing metrology applications. While such probes have been
Created June 14, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022