Nanophotonics

News and Updates

New Device Widens Light Beams by 400 Times, Broadening Possibilities in Science and Technology

November 27, 2018

By using light waves instead of electric current to transmit data, photonic chips—circuits for light—have advanced...

NIST Chip Lights Up Optical Neural Network Demo

July 26, 2018

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes...

Through a Prism Brightly: A New Way to Measure the Light-Warping Properties of Hyperbolic Metamaterials

June 18, 2018

Manipulating light in a variety of ways—shrinking its wavelength and allowing it to travel freely in one direction...

Illustration of sunlight shining on solar panel covered with nanometer-scale beads.

Psst! A Whispering Gallery for Light Boosts Solar Cells

April 13, 2018

Trapping light with an optical version of a whispering gallery, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and...

Publications

Chip-integrated visible–telecom entangled photon pair source for quantum communication

January 21, 2019

Author(s):

Xiyuan Lu, Qing Li, Daron A. Westly, Gregory T. Moille, Anshuman Singh, Vikas Anant, Kartik A. Srinivasan

Photon pair sources are fundamental blocks for quantum entanglement and quantum communication. Recent studies in silicon photonics have documented promising...

Spin-mechanical coupling of an InAs quantum dot embedded in a mechanical resonator

December 14, 2018

Author(s):

S G. Carter, A S. Bracker, Garnett W. Bryant, M Kim, C S. Kim, M Zalalutdinov, M. K. Yakes, C Czarnocki, J Casara, M Scheibner, D Gammon

We demonstrate strain-induced coupling between a hole spin in a quantum dot and mechanical motion of a cantilever. The optical transitions of quantum dots...

Fabrication and Testing of Photonic Thermometers

October 24, 2018

Author(s):

Nikolai N. Klimov, Zeeshan Ahmed

In recent years, a push for developing novel silicon photonic devices for telecommunications has generated a vast knowledge base that is now being leveraged...

Long spin-flip time and large Zeeman splitting of holes in type-II ZnTe/ZnSe submonolayer quantum dots

October 11, 2018

Author(s):

H Ji, S Dhomkar, R. Wu, J Ludwig, Z Lu, D Smirnov, M C. Tamargo, Garnett W. Bryant, I L. Kuskovsky

The Zeeman splitting and degree of circular polarization (DCP) of photoluminescence (PL) from type-II submonolayer ZnTe/ZnSe quantum dots (QDs) have been...

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Nanophotonics

News and Updates

New Device Widens Light Beams by 400 Times, Broadening Possibilities in Science and Technology

NIST Chip Lights Up Optical Neural Network Demo

Through a Prism Brightly: A New Way to Measure the Light-Warping Properties of Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Psst! A Whispering Gallery for Light Boosts Solar Cells

Publications

Chip-integrated visible–telecom entangled photon pair source for quantum communication

Spin-mechanical coupling of an InAs quantum dot embedded in a mechanical resonator

Fabrication and Testing of Photonic Thermometers

Long spin-flip time and large Zeeman splitting of holes in type-II ZnTe/ZnSe submonolayer quantum dots

Projects & Programs

Photonic Dosimetry

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

Micro- and nano-optomechanical systems

Light-matter interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures

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Sample Preparation and Metrology Tools