Spotlight on Optics

A paper coauthored by Chris Phillips and myself has been selected for a "Spotlight on Optics" highlighting recent work of broad relevance in OSA journals. In the paper, we present a thorough analysis of the effects of domain disorder in QPM devices on a number of applications varying in intensity from single photons to more than many GW/cm².

Spin-photon entanglement and downconversion

The results of my last set of projects at Stanford have recently been published in Nature.  With a large collaboration led by Kristiaan De Greve, we demonstrated entanglement between the spin state of a single electron trapped in a quantum dot and the polarization of the photon it emitted, via time-resolved downconversion to the 1550-nm telecom band.

Dual-channel upconversion detector

The results of one of my last projects at Stanford, done in collaboration with Paulina Kuo and Xiao Tang of the NIST Information Technology Lab, on a dual-channel upconversion single-photon detector, have just been published in Optics Express (open access).  You can also read a lay-level description of the research in NIST's internal publication Tech Beat: we're grateful for their interest in the work!

Ph.D. dissertation posted

My dissertation has been officially approved by the Stanford registrar and I've posted it on the Fejer Group website!  I'm now officially ready to begin the next step -- on comes HP Labs: official start date is this Monday 8/6/12!

Thanks to all the people who've helped along this journey.  It's been an incredibly fulfilling experience to work with everyone at Stanford and at various other institutions.

Our work on upconversion single-photon detectors has received some press coverage in Laser Focus World.  Check it out.