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Nanotechnology

Nanophotonics

News and Updates

Projects and Programs

ultra-sensitive silicon photonic thermometer (SPoT)

Photonic Thermometry

Ongoing
Why do we need reliable temperature metrology? Temperature, the second most measured physical property after time and frequency, is indispensable to innumerable industries, military services, medicine, climate, and weather forecasts – precise, accurate, and rapid temperature metrology enables much
nanophotonic

Nonlinear nanophotonic control of light

Ongoing
Light-matter interactions with nonlinear materials provide a powerful tool for converting optical fields from one state to another. For example, nonlinear wavelength conversion leverages efficient scattering of photons of a single frequency to another, enabling generation of coherent sources across
joint quantum institute

Designing the Nanoworld: Nanostructure, Nanodevices, and Nano-optics

Ongoing
Developing and exploiting nanodevices for quantum and nanotechnologies requires nanoscale and atomic scale modeling of ultrasmall structures, devices, their operation, and their response to probes. Key challenges of understanding physics at the quantum/classical interface and measurement at the

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

Tools and Instruments

Awards