Nanophotonics

News

No Liquid Helium, But Still Extremely Cool

May 23, 2017

NIST scientists have devised a novel hybrid system for cooling superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPD...

Measuring Acceleration with Light

March 29, 2017

Most people have never seen an accelerometer -- a device that measures change in velocity -- and wouldn’t know where to...

schematic of laser light interacting with a plasmonic gap resonator

NIST Device for Detecting Subatomic-Scale Motion Has Potential Robotics, Homeland Security Applications

December 15, 2016

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the...

Ringing in a New Way to Measure and Modulate Trapped Light

December 22, 2015

Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a novel way to...

Events

Single Photon Workshop 2017

July 31, 2017 to August 04, 2017

On July 31 - August 4, 2017, NIST will host the Single Photon Workshop 2017, which will be held at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado (USA)...

Publications

Deterministic implementation of a bright, on-demand single-photon source with near-unity indistinguishability via quantum dot imaging

July 20, 2017

Author(s):

Yu-Ming He, Jin Liu, Sebastian Meier, Monika Emmerling, Stephan Gerhardt, Marcelo I. Davanco, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Christian Schneider, Sven Hofling

Impact of Varying Vacuum Levels on Self-Heating in Photonic Thermometers

July 01, 2017

Author(s):

Zeeshan Ahmed, Nikolai N. Klimov, James R. Hands, James A. Fedchak

Here we examine the impact of vacuum levels on self-heating in photonic crystal cavity thermometers. Our results suggest that background gas pressure has a...

Cryogenic photoluminescence imaging system for nanoscale positioning of single quantum emitters

February 23, 2017

Author(s):

Jin Liu, Marcelo I. Davanco, Luca Sapienza, Kumarasiri Konthasinghe, Jose Vinicius De Miranda Cardoso, Jin Dong Song, Antonio Badolato, Kartik A. Srinivasan

Acousto-optic modulation and opto-acoustic gating in piezo-optomechanical circuits

February 09, 2017

Author(s):

Krishna Coimbatore Balram, Marcelo I. Davanco, Bojan R. Ilic, Ji-Hoon Kyhm, Jin Dong Song, Kartik A. Srinivasan

Nanophotonics

News

No Liquid Helium, But Still Extremely Cool

Measuring Acceleration with Light

NIST Device for Detecting Subatomic-Scale Motion Has Potential Robotics, Homeland Security Applications

Ringing in a New Way to Measure and Modulate Trapped Light

Events

Single Photon Workshop 2017

Publications

Deterministic implementation of a bright, on-demand single-photon source with near-unity indistinguishability via quantum dot imaging

Impact of Varying Vacuum Levels on Self-Heating in Photonic Thermometers

Cryogenic photoluminescence imaging system for nanoscale positioning of single quantum emitters

Acousto-optic modulation and opto-acoustic gating in piezo-optomechanical circuits

Projects & Programs

Light-matter interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures

Designing the Nanoworld: Nanostructure, Nanodevices, and Nanooptics

Micro- and nano-optomechanical systems

Nanoplasmonics and Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Metamaterials