Nanophotonics

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

May 02, 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...

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...

Publications

Spatially-offset hyperspectral microscopy of waveguiding in single zinc oxide nanorods

June 19, 2019

Author(s):

Bonghwan Chon, Johnson Truong, Matthew Hansen, Jong-in Hahm, Young J. Lee

We examine multiphoton-produced optical signals waveguided through single ZnO nanorods (NRs) using a newly developed, scanning offset-emission hyper- spectral...

pyLLE: a Fast and User Friendly Lugiato-Lefever Equation Solver

May 24, 2019

Author(s):

Gregory T. Moille, Qing Li, Xiyuan Lu, Kartik A. Srinivasan

The Lugiato-Lefever Equation (LLE), first developed to provide a description of spatial dissipative structures in optical systems, has recently made a...

Quantum Frequency Conversion of a Quantum Dot Single-Photon Source on a Nanophotonic Chip

May 20, 2019

Author(s):

Anshuman Singh, Qing Li, Shunfa Liu, Ying Yu, Xiyuan Lu, Christian Schneider, Sven Hofling, John R. Lawall, Varun B. Verma, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Jin Liu, Kartik A. Srinivasan

Single self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots are promising bright sources of indistinguishable photons for quantum information science. However, their...

Ultrafast Optical Pulse Shaping using Dielectric Metasurfaces

May 02, 2019

Author(s):

Shawn M. Divitt, Wenqi Zhu, Cheng Zhang, Henri J. Lezec, Amit K. Agrawal

Simultaneous control of individual frequency-comb lines, and their modulation at the repetition-rate of an ultrafast laser represents the ultimate limit of...

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Nanophotonics

News and Updates

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

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

Publications

Spatially-offset hyperspectral microscopy of waveguiding in single zinc oxide nanorods

pyLLE: a Fast and User Friendly Lugiato-Lefever Equation Solver

Quantum Frequency Conversion of a Quantum Dot Single-Photon Source on a Nanophotonic Chip

Ultrafast Optical Pulse Shaping using Dielectric Metasurfaces

Projects & Programs

Photonic Dosimetry

Light-matter interactions in Semiconductor Nanostructures

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

Micro- and nano-optomechanical systems

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