Director Faculty Post-doctoral research associates Graduate students Undergrad students Former members
Director
Prof. Prem Kumar
A T & T Professor of Information Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Research interests: Optical communications, in particular, novel optical amplifiers and devices for terabits per second fiber-optic communications; quantum fiber-optics, in particular, generation and distribution of quantum entanglement over the fiber channel and quantum cryptography over fiber lines; nonlinear and quantum optics, in particular, applications of novel states of light such as squeezed and twin-beam states. Read more...
Faculty
Prof. Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano
Professor of Quantum Optics and Quantum Systems and Information, Dipartimento di Fisica "A. Volta", University of Pavia, Italy; Fellow of Optical Society of America
Research interests: Quantum information and quantum mechanics of measurements and open systems, programmable quantum devices, quantum tomography of states and quantum devices.. Read more...
Prof. Gregory Kanter
Research Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research interests: Experimental quantum optics including the use of nonlinear frequency conversion for quantum measurements.
Prof. Kim Fook Lee
Research Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Research interests: Fiber based entanglement source, optical communication, Wigner function.
Prof. Selim Shahriar
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Physics and Astronomy; Director of Division of Solid State and Photonics
Research interests: Gravitational wave detection, measurement of frame dragging effect, super-luminal propagation of light, cooling and trapping of neutral atoms, quantum computing.. Read more...
Prof. Bruce Wessels
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Research interests: Photonics materials and devices, oxide thin films, compound semiconductors, spintronic III-V semiconductors. Read more...
Post-doctoral research associates
There are currently no post-doctoral research associates in the lab.
Graduate students
Bradley Scott Elkus
Project: Design of optical spectrum analyzer using tunable filter (under Quiness)
Advisors: Prof. Prem Kumar and Prof. Greg Kanter
Siyuan Shi
Project: Photon pair generation in biological molecules
Advisors: Prof. Prem Kumar and Prof. Yu-Ping Huang
Michael Silver
Project: Optimization of pulses for quantum frequency conversion (under Quiness)
Advisors: Prof. Prem Kumar and Prof. Greg Kanter
Vesselin Velev
Project: Numerical simulation of micro-resonators (under Quiness)
Advisors: Prof. Prem Kumar and Prof. Yu-Ping Huang
Undergraduate students
There are currently no undergrad students in the lab.
