Abstract:
Integrated nanophotonics is likely to play an important role in future quantum technology, whether it be computing and simulation, communications, metrology, or sensing. While photonics foundries have begun offering linear optical networks of tunable interferometers with a level of complexity beyond that easily achievable through conventional table-top optics, there are many important functionalities for quantum science that are not currently widely available. In this seminar, I will discuss our efforts in developing some of these key resources in integrated photonics platforms. Through access to physical processes based on the Kerr nonlinearity, optical coupling to single quantum dipoles, and acousto-optic interactions, we are developing technologies such as visible wavelength optical parametric oscillators, entanglement distribution sources, quantum frequency converters, on-demand single-photon sources, and microwave-to-optical transducers. After reviewing a selection of these technologies, I will discuss prospects for their integration into more complex functional systems.
Biography:
Kartik Srinivasan is a Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a Fellow of the NIST/University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute, and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology, where his graduate research was supported by a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship. Kartik has published research on topics such as integrated quantum photonics, nonlinear nanophotonics, nanoscale electro-optomechanical transducers, and photonic crystals. He has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the Department of Commerce Bronze and Gold Medals and is a Fellow of the OSA. He is also an Associate Editor of Physical Review Applied.
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