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Physical Measurement Laboratory /Applied Physics Division

Quantum Nanophotonics Group

The Quantum Nanophotonics Group develops and provides advanced measurement technology, methodology, and test structures to support the efficient manufacture and characterization of optoelectronic components.

The Group also develops new photonic devices in support of NIST and other government programs. Two major focus areas are compound semiconductor nanotechnology and quantum information.

News and Updates

Projects and Programs

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Physics and Hardware for Intelligence

Artificial intelligence increasingly affects many aspects of society. New computational hardware based on information-processing in the brain is being developed

Publications

Microring resonator-coupled photoluminescence from silicon W centers

Author(s)
Alexander N. Tait, Sonia M. Buckley, Jeffrey T. Chiles, Adam N. McCaughan, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin, Jeffrey M. Shainline
Defect centers are promising candidates for waveguide-integrated silicon light sources. We demonstrate microresonator- and waveguide-coupled photoluminescence

Single-scan acquisition of multiple multidimensional spectra

Author(s)
Travis M. Autry, Galan Moody, James M. Fraser, Corey A. McDonald, Richard P. Mirin, Kevin L. Silverman
Multidimensional coherent spectroscopy is a powerful tool for understanding the ultrafast dynamics of complex quantum systems. To fully characterize the

Evidence for moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

Author(s)
Kha Tran, Galan Moody, Travis M. Autry, Kevin L. Silverman, Fengcheng Wu, Junho Choi, Akshay Singh, Jacob Embley, Andre Zepeda, Marshall Cambel, Kyoung Kim, Amritesh Rai, Daniel Sanchez, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Li Yang, Nanshu Lu, Sanjay Banerjee, emanuel tutuc, Allan H. MacDonald, Xiaoqin Li
Recent advances in the isolation and stacking of monolayers of van der Waals materials have provided approaches for the preparation of quantum materials in the

Software

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SOEN Process Design Kits

This technology package, a.k.a process design kit (PDK), defines the NIST superconducting optoelectronics process: OLMAC. It is in the klayout format of

Awards

Richard Mirin Elected OSA Fellow

Richard Mirin is recognized for outstanding contributions to semiconductor quantum dot devices and quantum optics by the Optical Society of

Contacts

Group Leader