23 - 28 June, 2024
Stanford University
Stanford, California USA
Events
Jelena Vuckovic
Stanford University
Quantum Optics
The field of quantum photonics is merging quantum optics with integrated photonics, and has important applications in quantum technologies. These lectures will cover recent progress in the field, enabled by breakthroughs in photonics design, along with new nanofabrication approaches and heterogeneous integration. The implementation of scalable quantum systems is the most dramatic example of this effort, as it requires new photonic materials and device functionalities, together with stringent device performances. Towards this goal, the platforms based on color centers in diamond and silicon carbide have been considered promising candidates, because of their high quality optically interfaced spin qubits, and high quality photonics. However, truly scalable systems require integration of all passive and active photonic devices on the same chip, including sources. Following the same advances in design, fabrication, and heterogenous integration, even Titanium:sapphire laser, the workhorse of optics laboratories, can be miniaturized into sub-cubic centimeter volume together with its pump. We demonstrate such a laser, and show how it can replace commercial tabletop Ti:sapphire lasers in our quantum optics experiments without any loss in performance.
About the Speaker
Jelena Vuckovic is the Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford, where she leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab. She joined the Stanford Faculty in 2003, upon receiving her PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2002. At Stanford, she also served as the Electrical Engineering Department Chair, and was the inaugural director of QFARM, the Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative. Vuckovic is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Her awards include the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, Geoffrey Frew Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences, the Mildred Dresselhaus Lecturer at MIT, the IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize, Distinguished Scholarship of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies at TU Munich, Humboldt Prize, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), of the Optica, and of the IEEE.
