Optical Nanostructures Laboratory

See also: Recent Publications [publications]

1. June 2010: Jie has been selected to receive the 2010 Chinese government award for Outstanding Students Abroad. James' paper on slow-light four-wave mixing has been accepted for publication at Optics Express. Congrats to James and Jie!

2. May 2010: We welcome two excellent PhD candidates to our team, both winners of prestigious awards: Demi Ajayi, a National Science Foundation Fellow, and Matthew Marko, a Defense of Defense / SMART Fellow. Congrats to Demi and Matt!

3. May 2010: Serdar's work on optical delay measurements on multiple coupled cavities has been accepted within 2 weeks "as it is" for publication at Applied Physics Letters.

4. April 2010: Chad and Pierre's work on soliton compression has been accepted as post-deadline in CLEO/QELS. Congrats!

5. March 2010: Nine of our papers has been accepted at CLEO/QELS for oral presentation. Congrats to all!

6. Jan/Feb 2010: Xiaodong's studies on optical EIT-like transmission has been published in the J. Sel. Top. Quant. Elect. (issue on silicon photonics). James' co-author work, with Nicolae Panoiu as lead author, on pulse propagation in Si photonic crystal waveguides has been published in the J. Sel. Top. Quant. Elect. (issue on silicon photonics). Charlton's work with IBM Watson has been accepted by Appl. Phys. Lett. for publication. Ranojoy's co-author work, with M. Rakher and K. Srinivasan of NIST as lead authors, have been accepted by Appl. Phys. Lett. for publication. Rohit's work on nanoelectromechanical perturbation for integrated photonics has been accepted by J. Microelectromechanical Sys. for publication. Rohit's work on optical hitless switches has been accepted by Optics Express. Congrats to all!

7. December 2009: Jie's study on slot mode-gap photonic crystal cavities, together with IBM Watson, has been accepted by Appl. Phys. Lett. Congrats, Jie!

8. December 2009: Tingyu's study on GaAs solar cells based on quantum dots in a well, performed at the Lester group at New Mexico, has been accepted by Appl. Phys. Lett. Congrats, Tingyi!

9. November 2009: Chad and Alfredo (Thales) study on self-phase modulation and three-photon absorption in slow-light photonic crystal waveguides has been accepted at Optics Express. And Ranojoy's cavity quantum electrodynamics study on cryogenic saturation spectroscopy of nanocrystals in photonic crystal cavities has been accepted at Optics Express. Congrats, Ranojoy and Chad!

10. September 2009: Ranojoy's work on quantum electrodynamics in cavity and slow-light photonic crystal waveguides has been accepted at Appl. Phys. Letts., and also selected publication in the Virt. J. of Nanoscale Sci. and Tech. (Oct 12th 2009 issue).

11. May 2009: Lennon has been selected for the 2009 Edwin Howard Armstrong Memorial Award, and is the top graduating senior in EE.

12. May 2009: Ranojoy's collaborative study on near-field self-assembled nanolens has been accepted in Nature. Congrats, Ranojoy!

13. May 2009: Alex has been selected for the 2009 William A. Hadley Prize, and is the top graduating senior in ME.

14. May 2009: Chad's study on nonlinear nanophotonics has been accepted as post-deadline paper in CLEO/IQEC. Congrats, Chad!

15. April 2009: Serdar's study on zero-n band gaps in photonic crystal superlattices has been accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett. Congrats, Serdar!

16. March 2009: Xiaodong's study on coupled high-Q cavities as a solid-state optical-analog to electromagnetically-induced transparency has been accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett. Congrats, Xiaodong!

17. February 2009: Fangwen Sun has been appointed as an Associate Professor in Physics, at the University of Science and Technology of China. Congrats, Fangwen! In addition, Yunfeng Xiao, a visiting alumni from our group, has also been appointed as an Associate Professor at Peking University. Congrats, Yunfeng!

18. January 2009: Chee Wei Wong receives the 2009 3M Faculty Award for studies on controlling photons in thin-film nanostructures, examining energy transport and nonlinear dynamics.

19. December 2008: Fangwen's study on indistinguishability of independent single photons is accepted at Phys. Rev. A within a week. [URL]

20. November 2008: Chad Husko and Alfredo de Rossi's study on picosecond switching in GaAs photonic crystal nanocavities through degenerate pump-probe is accepted at Appl. Phys. Letts. within 2 weeks. [URL]

21. November 2008: James McMillans' study on double slow-light spontaneous Raman scattering in silicon photonic crystal waveguides has been accepted at Appl. Phys. Letts. [URL]

22. August 2008: Ranojoy Bose has been selected as one of the winners of the highly-competitive 2008 LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship. [URL]

23. May 2008: Rohit Chatterjee's study on bound surface states in negative refraction photonic crystals for tight subwavelength focusing is published in Phys. Rev. Letts. [URL].

24. April 2008: Fangwen Sun's work on quantum phase precision measurement beyond the standard quantum limit is covered by PhysOrg: http://www.physorg.com/news127996872.html . This experimental achievement approaching the Heisenberg uncertainty is published in Europhysics Lett. 82, 24001 (2008), and is a new measurement method utiliizing multi-photon entanglement and interference. [URL]

25. April 2008: Ranojoy Bose's work on controllable Förster energy transfer in monodispersed PbS nanocrystals has been published in Nano Lett. 8, 2006 (2008) [URL], and has also been featured in Photonics Spectra (2008) [URL].

26. February 2008: Xiaodong Yang receives the 2007 Chinese government award for Outstanding Students Aboard: http://wcm.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cgny/chn/ttxw/t429892.htm (text in chinese).

27. November 2007: Chee Wei Wong receives the 2008 NSF CAREER Award for studies on nonlinear and quantum optics in photonic crystal nanocavities. [URL]

28. June 2007: Chad Husko receives the prestigious J. William Fulbright Fellowship for study in France in 2007 to 2008. Amongst the non-English Fulbright programs, the French Fulbright program is the most competitive and is awarded to only about 20 Fellows annually, across the country. [URL]

29. January 2007: Chee Wei Wong receives the 2007 DARPA Young Faculty Award for studies in high-Q/V cavities and their deterministic control. [URL]

30. June 2006: Xiaodong Yang receives the prestigious Intel Foundation PhD Fellowship from 2006 to 2008. This highly-competitive fellowship is by invitation only, and is awarded to only about 40 Fellows annually, across the country. [URL]