Shane Eaton
28 July - 01 August 2025
Yerevan State University
Yerevan, Armenia
Events
Shane Eaton
CNR - Institute of Photonics and of Nanotechnologies, Italy
Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication of Quantum Technologies
Fundamentals of Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication:
I will describe the fundamentals behind femtosecond laser processing in transparent materials such as glasses, polymer, and crystals. I will give an overview of the different modalities of femtosecond laser microfabrication, including ablation, optical waveguide formation, buried microchannel formation, and two-photon polymerization. In the latter part of my talk, I will give an overview of state-of-the-art devices produced by laser processing.
Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication of Quantum Technologies:
Femtosecond laser processing can be used to form quantum emitters and interconnects in material platforms such as silicon, diamond, gallium nitride, silicon carbide, and hexagonal boron nitride. In this talk, I will present our latest work on how laser writing can be applied to fabricate quantum technologies for quantum sensing, information, and networking.
About the Speaker
Shane Eaton received the B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics (electrical engineering option) from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2008. During his Ph.D., he studied the effect of repetition rate on thermal diffusion and heat accumulation during femtosecond laser writing of optical waveguides in glasses for applications in telecommunications and sensing. At CNR-IFN, his current research is femtosecond laser fabrication of micro-nano devices for quantum technologies.
He is an author or coauthor of 80 journal papers, 7 book chapters, and over 100 conference papers. His h-index is 37 with 6100 citations.
