Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory

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1. April 2014: Chee Wei is elected as a 2014 Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

2. April 2014: Demi's studies on time-resolved energy transfer of excitons from nanocrystal to graphene is published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Congrats to Demi.

3. March 2014: Congrats to the succesful PhD defense of Dr. Tingyi Gu!

4. February 2014: Jinghui's paper on regenerative oscillations in high-Q cavities is accepted and published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Congrats, Jinghui.

5. October 2013: Chee Wei is elected as a 2013 Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

6. Sept/Aug 2013: Welcome to new members, Yongjun Huang, Sajan Shrestha, Hongjian Qi, and Junbo Yang!

7. July 2013: The joint studies on the decoherence and prolonged spontaneous emission lifetimes of single excitons in nanotubes has been published in Nature Communications, led by the Stevens Institute of Technology. Congrats! In addition, our alumni, Dr. Ranojoy Bose, joins HP Labs as a research scientist - congrats to Ranojoy!

8. June 2013: Our studies on cavity QED with single exciton-photon polaritons in the slow-light regime has appeared in Nature Scientific Reports, based on the strong vacuum Rabi coupling from disorder localized photon states. This is joint work with Thales, UCLA, Humboldt Berlin and Karlsruhe. Congrats!

9. May 2013: Yong-Chun is awarded the 2013 SPIE Optics and Photonics education scholarship - congrats to Yong-Chun! We also welcome new members, Eli Kinigstein, Seth Olsen, Dov Fields and Hangcheng Zhou -- welcome onboard.

10. March 2013: Yong-Chun and Xingsheng's work on the dynamic dissipative cooling of optomechanical resonators has been accepted in Physical Review Letters. Congrats to Yong-Chun and Xingsheng!

11. February 2013: Welcome to new members: Tony Barra, Benjamin Aguilar, and Joey Ge! Tingyi has been selected to receive the 2013 Chinese government award for Outstanding Students Aboard.

12. December/January 2013: Dr. Felice Gesuele will start as an Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Naples Federico II. Congrats to Dr. Gesuele!

13. November 2012: Dr. Chad Husko and Dr. Jiangjun Zheng's work on ultrafast solitons on-chip through frequency-resolved optical gating has been accepted in Nature Scientific Reports. Congrats!

14. November 2012: Dr. Jiangjun Zheng's work on the femtogram optomechanical cavities has been selected as the cover article of Optics Express, November 2012 issue. Cheers to Jiangjun!

15. October/November 2012: Welcome to new members: Yong-Chun Liu visiting our group, and Hao Zhou and Dr. Shu-Wei Huang. Dr. Jiangjun's design on the femtogram nanobeam optomechanical cavities is published in Optics Express, and Dr. Andrzej Veitia's work on mutual preservation of entanglement is published in Physics Letters A - congrats.

16. August/September 2012: Welcome to new members: Xingsheng Luan, Pamela Sanchez, Matthew Miao Yu, Heng Zhou, and undergraduates Silas Wilkinson and Eric Laukkanen!

17. July 2012: Tingyi and James' paper on four-wave mixing and regenerative oscillations in graphene optoelectronics has been selected as the cover article of Nature Photonics, August 2012. Congrats to Tingyi and James!

18. June 2012: Tingyi is awarded the 2012 SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics - congrats, Tingyi! [article]

19. May 2012: Tingyi and James' paper on four-wave mixing and regenerative oscillations in graphene optoelectronics has been accepted as a post-deadline news in our annual optical physics and photonics conference -- Conference of Lasers and Electro-Optics / Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. Selection rate is ~ 2%, out of the 1800+ scientific presentations. Tingyi and James: beautiful measurements!

20. April 2012: Mark Hamilton, a high-school intern in our team, has been awarded the I. I. Rabi scholarship and offered admission into Columbia University. Founded in 1989 by Columbia College and faculty of the science, the Rabi Scholars Program was established in memory of 1944 Nobel Laureate and Columbia physics faculty member I. I. Rabi. A small number of incoming first year Columbia College students who demonstrate exceptional promise in the sciences are chosen to be Rabi Scholars, and the program seeks to support and encourage these talented young scientists by providing research opportunities throughout their undergraduate careers.

21. April 2012: Pamela Sanchez is awarded the NSF fellowship along with the GEM fellowship -- congrats, Pamela!

22. April 2012: alumni Prof. Xiaodong Yang wins the 2012 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. Congrats to Prof. Yang!

23. March 2012: Jiangjun's collaborative work with Yale, Prof. Hong Tang's group, on femtogram optomechanical nanobeam cavities has appeared in Nano Letters. Congrats to Jiangjun and Prof. Tang's group.

24. Feburary 2012: A new NSF PhD program on "Optics and Quantum Electronics" is established! This IGERT training program emphasizes on controlling photons in nanostructures, for next-generation optical communications (quantum and high-bitrate) and solar photovoltaics towards a sustainable future. Consisting of 20 interdisciplinary faculty members with cross-linked advances, it provides highly-selective PhD fellowships/traineeships for fundamental science with strong industry inputs and representation. [Optics and Quantum Electronics IGERT]

25. Feburary 2012: XinAn's article on quantum correlations on chip is published in Nature Photonics! Congrats. [publications]

26. January 2012: Jie and James' news article on strongly coupled cavity systems appears in Nature Photonics. Catvu and Jiangjun's APL paper with Prof. Jack Harris (Yale) on Fano-resonances in 50-nm nitride membranes with mechanical Q at 5x10^6 is published! Congrats to all.

27. December 2011: Serdar's work on negative index chip-scale optical filters is accepted and published in Optics Letters. Felice's paper on ultrafast supercontinuum spectroscopy of multiexciton in PbS quantum dots has appeared in Nano Letters. Congrats!

28. December 2011: Jie Gao defends her thesis on "Chip-scale photonic devices for light-matter interactions and quantum information processing", and receives her PhD in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. She joins immediately as a professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Congratulations to Prof. Gao!

29. November/December 2011: Welcome to several talented and ambitious new team members over the past few months: Jinghui Yang, XinAn Xn, Kevin Kleinguetl, Dr. Zhenda Xie, Dr. Andrzej Veitia, visiting Professor Xiujian Li, Abdollah (Ali) Dadgar, Ayushi Rajeev, and Norman Nan Shi!

30. July 2011: Serdar Kocaman defends his thesis on "On-chip group and phase velocity control for classical and quantum optical devices", and receives his PhD in Electrical Engineering. Congrats, Serdar!

31. June 2011: Dr. Chad Husko's work on multiphoton absorption in slow-light highly-dispersive waveguies is published in Optics Letters. Dr. Charlton Chen's measurements on oxidation tuning of mode-gap cavity Qs in the range of 300,000 is published in Optics Express. Congrats to both!

32. May 2011: Charlton defends his work on "Precision tuning of silicon nanophotonic devices through post-fabrication processes", and receives his PhD in Materials Science through Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics. Congrats, Dr. Chen!

33. March 2011: Tingyi's integrated optical-EIT tuning of coherent cavity-cavity interactions is published in Appl. Phys. Lett. Nice work.

34. January 2011: Kartik Srinivasan, Matt Rakher and Ranojoy's time-resolved spectroscopy of few PbS quantum dots in silicon-based cavities through the tapered fiber approach is published in Optics Express. Great measurements.

35. December 2010: Lead by Prof. Paniou, the joint modeling work on femtosecond pulse propagation in slow-light lattices is accepted in Applied Physics A.

36. November 2010: Our collaborative work, with Thales Research and Technology, on chip-scale femtosecond pulse compression in slow-light photonic crystals for high-bitrate information processing has been published in Nature Photonics! The lead authors are Pierre Colman, Chad Husko and Sylvain Combrie, with Alfredo de Rossi as the lead investigator on the Thales team. Very nice observations. Well-done and congrats!

37. October 2010: Ying's initial proposal on cavity optomechanics based on mode-gap slot cavity with ultrahigh photon-phonon interactions (g_{om} at 940-GHz/nm) is published in Optics Express. Congrats to Ying.

38. July 2010: James' rigorous demonstrations of four-wave mixing in slow-light highly-dispersive photonic crystals has been published in Optics Express. Beautiful measurments, James!

39. 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!

40. 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!

41. 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.

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

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

44. 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!

45. 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!

46. 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!

47. 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!

48. 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).

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

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

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

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

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

54. 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!

55. 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!

56. 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.

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

58. 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]

59. 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]

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

61. 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].

62. 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]

63. 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].

64. 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).

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

66. 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]

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

68. 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]