Nanophotonics
Focus
The Nanophotonics Thrust is concerned with using nanoscale control of materials and components for switching, guiding, and generating light for the next generation of telecommunication devices and systems. The research focus encompasses both critical system aspects of the optical layer of the telecommunication infrastructure and applications in information transmission and processing systems that operate over shorter distances (e.g., within a computer architecture) than has heretofore been associated with fiber communications. There are three areas of technology focus: 1) Lead-salt quantum dots, 2) Photonic crystal fibers, and 3) Silicon nanophotonics.
Team
Thrust Group Leader:
Prof. Alexander Gaeta
Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University
224 Clark Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-9983
alg3(at)cornell.edu
Faculty contributors:
Prof. Michal Lipson
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cornell University
411 Phillips Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-7877
lipson(at)ece.cornell.edu
Prof. Frank Wise
Applied and Engineering Physics
Cornell University
252 Clark Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-1184
fww1(at)cornell.edu
Post Doctoral Fellows:
Byung-Ryool Hyun (5/2003 - 10/2005)
Kevin Moll (5/2003 - 6/2004)
Dimitre Ouzounov (11/2003 - 10/2004)
Reza Salem
Liangfeng Sun
Graduate Students:
Adam Bartnik
Daniel Broaddus
Lu Chen
(PhD 2004)
Stephen Clark
Mark Foster
Saikat Ghosh
(PhD 2006)
Chris Hensley
Jeffrey Harbold
(PhD 2005)
Doug Homoelle (PhD 2003)
Chen Long
Yoshi Okawachi
Carl Poitras (PhD 2006)
Stephan Preble
Kyle Preston
Bradley Schmidt
Qianfan Xu
REU Students:
Miguel Alamillo, University of Texas at El Paso (summer 2006)
Phillip Anderson, Mississippi State University (summer 2005)
Kiana Aran, City College of CUNY (summer 2006)
Aleksandra Czajka, Cornell University (summer 2003)
Betsy Hall, Austin Peay State University (summer2006)
William Huston, Alabama A&M University (summer 2005)
Sareet Jacob, Brown University (summer 2003)
Martin MacLean, Universidad Metropolitana (summer 2004)
Trista Martin, Jackson State University (summer 2004)
Robert Meyers, Cornell University (summer 2003)
Sarah Petersen, University of Wisconsin (summer 2005)
Elyse Steiner, Smith College (summer 2004)
John Wilcox, Brigham Young University (summer 2004)
Research Highlights
- Photonic Crystal Fibers with Ultralow Nonlinearities [2003]
- An All-Optical Switch on Silicon [2004]
- Optical Control of Light Using Molecules Injected in Photonic Crystal Fibers [2005]
- Broad-Band Optical Gain on a Silicon Photonic Chip [2006]
- A High-Speed EO Modulator for Controlling Light Communications on Silicon Chips [2006]
- All-Fiber Gas Cell [2007]
