Groups

Jin Liu

Research Areas: 

  • Integrated photonics design/fab/test
  • Integrated quantum photonics

 

Where are they now?: 

Jin was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Research working in the NIST lab on quantum dot single-photon sources based on micropillars and circular Bragg gratings, improved versions of imaging-based techniques for quantum dot location, and the role of nanofabrication on quantum dot behavior. He is now a Professor at Sun-Yat Sen University and a collaborator on single quantum dot devices.

Qing Li

Research Areas: 

  • Integrated photonics design/fab/test
  • Integrated quantum photonics
  • Nonlinear nanophotonics

Where are they now?: 

Qing was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher working in the NIST labs on quantum frequency conversion of single photons and octave-spanning frequency comb generation in silicon nitride microresonators. He is now an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

Karen Grutter

Research Areas: 

  • Integrated photonics design/fab/test
  • Nanoscale electro-optomechanical transducers

 

Where are they now?: 

Karen was a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Scholar at NIST working on novel cavity optomechanical and electro-optomechanical devices. She is now a Research Scientist at the Laboratory for Physical Science (LPS) in College Park, MD.

Serkan Ates

Research Areas: 

  • Integrated photonics design/fab/test
  • Integrated quantum photonics

 

Where are they now?: 

Serkan was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher working in the NIST lab on bright quantum dot single-photon sources and quantum frequency conversion and temporal manipulation of single photons. He is now an Associate Professor at the Izmir Institute of Technology.

Imad Agha

Research Areas: 

  • Integrated photonics design/fab/test
  • Integrated quantum photonics
  • Nonlinear nanophotonics

 

Where are they now?: 

Imad was a NIST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher working in the NIST lab on quantum frequency conversion of single photons, four-wave-mixing in silicon nitride waveguides, and spectro-temporal manipulation of single photon wavepackets. He is now an Associate Professor of Physics and Electro-Optics at the University of Dayton.