Nanophotonics

News and Updates

What a Switch! NIST-Led Team Develops Tiny Low-Energy Device to Rapidly Reroute Light in Computer Chips

November 14, 2019

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have developed an optical

Sculpting Super-Fast Light Pulses: NIST Nanopillars Shape Light Precisely for Practical Applications

May 2, 2019

Imagine being able to shape a pulse of light in any conceivable manner—compressing it, stretching it, splitting it in

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

Projects and Programs

PTIR combines the spatial resolution of AFM with the specificity of absorption spectroscopy

Nano-Chemical Imaging and -Spectroscopy (IR, nIR, VIS)

Conventional techniques for analyzing chemical composition, such as infrared (IR) microscopy often miss critically important nanoscale details. To overcome this

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

Nano and atomic scale theory of the electronic, optical and mechanical properties of ultrasmall structures, such as semiconductor quantum dots and dopants in Si

Nanoplasmonics and Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Metamaterials

Metamaterials are tailor-made photonic composites--combinations of materials designed to achieve optical properties not seen in nature. The properties stem from

Light-matter interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures

The quantum optics of light interacting with semiconductor-based nanostructures is being studied to extend concepts of entanglement and coherence in atomic

Publications

Microwave-to-optical transduction using a mechanical supermode for coupling piezoelectric and optomechanical resonators

January 16, 2020

Author(s)

Marcelo H. Wu, Emil Zeuthen, Krishna Balram, Kartik A. Srinivasan

Valley Phenomena in the Candidate Phase Change Material WSe2(1-x)Te2x

January 15, 2020

Author(s)

Sean M. Oliver, Joshua Young, Sergiy Krylyuk, Thomas L. Reinecke, Albert Davydov, Patrick M. Vora

Alloyed transition metals dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide the unique opportunity for coupling band engineering and valleytronic phenomena in an atomically-thin

Milliwatt-threshold visible-telecom optical parametric oscillation using silicon nanophotonics

December 20, 2019

Author(s)

Xiyuan Lu, Gregory T. Moille, Anshuman Singh, Qing Li, Daron A. Westly, Ashutosh S. Rao, Su Peng Yu, Travis Briles, Scott B. Papp, Kartik A. Srinivasan

The on-chip creation of coherent light at visible wavelengths is of interest to many applications in spectroscopy, sensing, and metrology. Towards that goal

Tunable quantum beat of single photons enabled by nonlinear nanophotonics

November 22, 2019

Author(s)

Qing Li, Anshuman Singh, Xiyuan Lu, John R. Lawall, Varun B. Verma, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Kartik A. Srinivasan

Integrated photonics is a promising approach for scalable implementation of diverse quantum resources at the chip-scale. Here, we demonstrate the integration of

Tools and Instruments

Sample Preparation and Metrology Tools

Read about our sample preparation and metrology tools.

Awards

NIST Physicist Honored by the Optical Society - Kartik Srinivasan

The Optical Society (OSA) is the leading professional association in optics and photonics. Fellowship in OSA is limited to no more than ten...