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2021

• Mishra, Trivedi, et al publish 'Control Design for Inhomogeneous-Broadening Compensation in Single-Photon Transducers' in Physical Review Applied. (10/14/2021)
• Rugar, Aghaeimeibodi, Riedel, et al publish 'Quantum Photonic Interface for Tin-Vacancy Centers in Diamond' in Physical Review X. (07/26/2021)
• Trivedi, et al. publish 'Optimal two-photon excitation of bound states in non-Markovian waveguide QED' in Physical Review A. (07/07/2021)
• Angeris, et al. publish 'Convex restrictions in physical design' in Scientific Reports. (06/21/2021)
• Aghaeimeibodi, Riedel, Rugar, et al. publish "Electrical Tuning of Tin-Vacancy Centers in Diamond" in Physical Review Applied. (06/03/2021)
• Lukin, Guidry, and Vučković highlight recent advances in Silicon Carbide quantum photonics in Optics and Photonics News. (02/20/2021)
• Our alumni Prof. Marina Radulaski honors Professor Vuckovic on OSA's celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science. (02/09/2021)
• Angeris, et al. publish 'Heuristic methods and performance bounds for photonic design' in Optics Express. (01/15/2021)

2020

• Lukin, et al. publish 'Integrated Quantum Photonics with Silicon Carbide: Challenges and Prospects' in PRX Quantum. (12/15/2020)
• Professor Vuckovic shares her insight on what might advance optics in 2021 and beyond in OPN magazine. (11/24/2020)
• Our work on Nonreciprocal Devices in Silicon Photonics is highlighted in OSA's Optics and Photonics News (OPN) in their annual review 'Optics in 2020'. (11/22/2020)
• Our former postdoc Shuo Sun is among the 2020 Rising Stars of Light Final Winners. Congratudations Shuo! (11/03/2020)
• Professor Vuckovic shares her vision on building scalable quantum processors on Physics World Weekly Podcast. (10/15/2020)
• Congratulations to Rahul for successfully defending his PhD. (10/14/2020)
• Lukin, White, et al. publish 'Spectrally reconfigurable quantum emitters enabled by optimized fast modulation' in npj Quantum Information. (09/17/2020)
• Trivedi, et al. publish 'Analytic and geometric properties of scattering from periodically modulated quantum-optical systems' in Physical Review A. (09/08/2020)
• Our work on 'On-chip integrated laser-driven particle accelerator' is highlighted in Stanford Magazine. (09/07/2020)
• Guidry, Yang, Lukin, et al. publish 'Optical parametric oscillation in silicon carbide nanophotonics' in Optica. (09/07/2020)
• Rugar, Dory, Aghaeimeibodi, et al. publish 'Narrow-Linewidth Tin-Vacancy Centers in a Diamond Waveguide' in ACS Photonics. (09/01/2020)
• Congratulations to our former postdoc Shuo Sun for starting an assitant professor position at University of Colorado Boulder. (08/27/2020)
• Congratulations to our alumni Arka Majumdar and Michal Bajcsy for their promotion to associate professor at University of Washington and University of Waterloo, respectively. (08/06/2020)
• Congratulations to our postdocs Shahriar and Vahid for receiving the Q-FARM Bloch Fellowship in Quantum Science and Engineering. (07/15/2020)
• Trivedi, et al. publish 'Bounds for Scattering from Absorptionless Electromagnetic Structures' in Physical Review Applied. (07/10/2020)
• Professor Vuckovic gives an invited talk in Photonics for Quantum 2 (PfQ2) conference. (06/29/2020)
• Congratulations to Logan for successfully defending his PhD. (05/19/2020)
• Professor Vuckovic was announced as CLEO 2020 Gordon Memorial Speaker. (05/09/2020)
• Congratulations to Neil for successfully defending his PhD. (05/06/2020)
• Congratulations to Constantin for successfully defending his PhD. (04/23/2020)
• Stanford Engineering features the Vuckovic Lab's recent work on Inverse-designed pulse router, bringing us closer to realizing chip-based LiDAR. (04/16/2020)
• Congratulations to Guillermo for winning the NSF graduate fellowship. (03/31/2020)
• Yang, Skarda, Cotrufo, et al. publish 'Inverse-designed non-reciprocal pulse router for chip-based LiDAR' in Nature Photonics (03/23/2020)
• Professor Vuckovic gives the 2020 Harvey Prize lecture at The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) London (03/20/2020)
• Vuckovic lab’s recent work on the inverse design software SPINS featured in Science Daily, PhysOrg, and EurekAlert (03/19/2020)
• Su et al. publish 'Nanophotonic inverse design with SPINS: Software architecture and practical considerations' in Applied Physics Reviews (03/10/2020)
• Professor Vuckovic answers questions about her personal path to science, her perspective on women in science and her workings as a role model in an interview with Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics (03/08/2020)
• Piggott, Ma, Su, et al. publish 'Inverse-Designed Photonics for Semiconductor Foundries' in ACS Photonics (02/19/2020)
• Professor Vuckovic gives the Distinguished seminar at The Kavli Nanoscience Institute at Caltech. (02/19/2020)
• Rugar et al. publish 'Generation of Tin-Vacancy Centers in Diamond via Shallow Ion Implantation and Subsequent Diamond Overgrowth' in Nano Letters (02/19/2020)
• Professor Vuckovic discusses with Russ Altman about the promise of photonics on The Future of Everything (01/24/2020)
• Congratulations to Rahul Trivedi for winning a research visit award from The Europe Center and the Stanford Club of Germany's Graduate Research and Internship Program! (01/17/2020)
• Sapra et al. publish 'On-chip integrated laser-driven particle accelerator' in Science (01/03/2020)

2019

• Trivedi et al. publish 'Generation of non-classical light using semiconductor quantum dots' in Advanced Quantum Technologies (12/26/2019)
• Trivedi et al. publish 'Data-driven acceleration of photonic simulations' in Scientific Reports (12/23/2019)
• Professor Vuckovic awarded prize from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) to develop an on-chip integrated pulsed laser [IET Announcement] [Stanford News] (12/09/2019)
• Lukin, Dory, Guidry, et al. publish '4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator for integrated quantum and nonlinear photonics' in Nature Photonics. Read more about this work at Stanford Engineering and Stanford EE (12/02/2019)
• Trivedi et al. publish 'Point-coupling Hamiltonian for frequency-independent linear optical devices' in Phys. Rev. A (10/21/2019)
• Professor Vuckovic gives a “Visionary Speakers” talk at Frontiers in Optics+Laser Science 2019, showcasing the future of nanophotonic design. (09/17/2019)
• Stanford Engineering features the Vuckovic Lab's recent work on building photonic circuits in diamond, bringing us closer to realizing on-chip quantum processors.(08/26/2019)
• Photonics Media reports on Professor Vuckovic's talk at SPIE San Diego, emphasizing the role of inverse design methods in the future of photonics (08/15/2019)
• Dory et al. publish 'Inverse-designed diamond photonics' in Nature Communications (07/25/2019)
• Professor Radulaski et al. publish 'Nanodiamond integration with photonic devices' in Laser & Photonics Reviews (07/22/2019)
• Trivedi et al. publish 'Photon blockade in weakly-driven cavity QED systems with many emitters' in Phys. Rev. Lett. (06/21/2019)
• Vercruysse et al. publish 'Analytical level set fabrication constraints for inverse design' in Scientific Reports (06/21/2019)
• Linda Zhang graduates! We wish her all the best at Waymo! Her thesis is available here. (06/16/2019)
• Professor Vuckovic appointed Jensen Huang Professor of Global Leadership (06/13/2019)
• Rugar et al. publish 'Characterization of optical and spin properties of single tin-vacancy centers in diamond nanopillars' in Phys. Rev. B (05/16/2019)
• Professor Vuckovic featured on 2019 CLEO panel 'Quantum Computing: Will It Work, and When?' (05/07/2019)
• Angeris et al. publish 'Computational Bounds for Photonic Design' in ACS Photonics (04/30/2019)
• Our photonics inverse design software, Spins, now has an open source version - check out Spins-B on Github! (03/29/2018)
• Professor Vuckovic recognized as Distinguished Scholar of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (03/29/2018)
• Q-FARM initiative bolsters quantum research at Stanford-SLAC (02/08/2018)
• Constantin Dory awarded 2019 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship [Official Release] [Biography] [Stanford Release] (01/17/2019)
• Sapra et al. publish 'Inverse design and demonstration of broadband grating couplers' in IEEE JSTQE (01/09/2019)
• Professor Vuckovic becomes founding director of Q-FARM, a Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative (01/2019)

2018

• Stanford EE Spotlight features Marina Radulaski for an interview with the soon-to-be professor (10/30/2018)
• Trivedi et al. publish 'Few-photon scattering and emission from low-dimensional quantum systems' in Phys. Rev. B (10/29/2018)
• Optical design got you down? Just Spin it! Vuckovic lab releases Spins, their Inverse Design software, for licensing. (10/04/2018)
• #MeetStanfordEngineering features engineer, physicist, and future professor Marina Radulaski on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook (10/02/2018)
• Professor Vuckovic receives two NSF grants for quantum research projects (10/01/2018)
• The infamous trio: Kevin Fischer, Yousif Kelaita, and Alexander Piggott end their tenure with the Vuckovic lab and begin careers at secret startups, Google, and Point Cloud, respectively. (09/05/2018)
• Sun et al. publish 'Cavity-enhanced Raman emission from a single color center in a solid' in Phys. Rev. Lett. (08/21/2018)

• Fischer et al. publish 'Pulsed coherent drive in the Jaynes-Cummings model' in Phys. Rev. A (08/14/2018)

• Marina Radulaski publishes 'Viewpoint: A Double Take on Unconventional Photon Blockade' in Physics (07/23/2018)

• Marina Radulaski accepted a tenure track assistant professor position at UC Davis ECE department. She will be starting a nanophotonics lab in Spring 2019. (07/01/2018)
• Fischer et al. publish 'Scattering into one-dimensional waveguides from a coherently-driven quantum-optical system' in Quantum (05/29/2018)
• Rahul Trivedi awarded 2018 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award for outstanding teaching service in Electrical Engineering department (05/22/2018)
• Vuckovic lab alumni, professors Andrei Faraon and Dirk Englund receive tenure at Caltech and MIT, respectively (05/09/2018)
• Constantin Dory wins Best Poster award at SUPR X (04/22/2018)
• Alison Rugar awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (04/16/2018)
• Alison Rugar awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (04/03/2018)
• Su et al. publish 'Fully-automated optimization of grating couplers' in Optics Express (02/07/2018)
• Zhang et al. publish 'Strongly Cavity-Enhanced Spontaneous Emission from Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Diamond' in Nano Letters (02/06/2018)
• Professor Vuckovic becomes an associate editor for ACS Photonics (01/15/2018)

2017

• Fischer et al. publish 'Pulsed Rabi oscillations in quantum two-level systems: beyond the area theorem' in Quantum Science and Technology (12/15/2017)
• Professor Vuckovic interviewed in Moore Foundation's 'Beyond the Lab' (11/14/2017)
• Professor Vuckovic speaks on 'What I Would Tell a Younger Me' panel at Rising Stars, an EECS conference for women in academia (11/06/2017)
• Su et al. publish 'Inverse Design and Demonstration of a Compact on-Chip Narrowband Three-Channel Wavelength Demultiplexer' in ACS Photonics (11/10/2017)
• Zhang et al. publish 'Complete coherent control of silicon vacancies in diamond nanopillars containing single defect centers' in Optica (10/20/2017)
• Professor Andrei Faraon honors Professor Vuckovic as a mentor through the OSA Foundation (09/14/2017)
• Radulaski et al. publish 'Photon blockade in two-emitter-cavity systems' in Phys. Rev. A (07/05/2017)
• Shuo Sun selected as a finalist for the 2017 APS Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science (DLS) Dissertation Award (06/15/2017)
• Linda Zhang wins the OSA Maiman Student Paper Competition at CLEO 2017 (05/15/2017)

• Piggott et al. publish 'Fabrication-constrained nanophotonic inverse design' in Scientific Reports (05/11/2017)

• Vuckovic lab’s recent work contributing to the development of quantum technologies featured in Stanford News, Stanford Daily, Science Daily, R&D Magazine, PhysOrg, and EurekAlert (05/09/2017)

• Neil Sapra awarded the Robert H. Siemann Fellowship (05/04/2017)
• Fischer et al. publish 'On-Chip Architecture for Self-Homodyned Nonclassical Light' in Phys. Rev. Applied (04/05/2017)
• 'Attosecond nanophotonics' published in Nature Photonics (04/03/2017)
• Marina Radulaski awarded Stanford's Nano- and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship (03/21/17)

• Professor Vuckovic describes her inspirations and influences in an interview for Stanford Engineering (03/14/2017)

• Professor Vuckovic gives an interview as the Featured Engineer for EEWeb (03/14/2017)

• Vuckovic lab's silcion carbide work featured in IOP Nanotechweb.org (03/06/2017)

• Constantin Dory selected as finalist for the OSA Tingye Li Innovation Prize (03/02/2017)

• Marina Radulaski shares a video of her Stanford PhD work-day with the Belgrade Science Festival audience (02/21/2017)

• Professor Vuckovic answers the questions of science-curious Redditors on the OSA Science AskMeAnything Series (02/08/2017)
• Vuckovic lab’s work towards secure quantum communication featured in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (01/11/2017)
• 'Dynamical modeling of pulsed two-photon interference' featured in New Journal of Physics Highlights of 2016 (01/01/2017)

2016

• Ultra-Small Nanocavity Advances Technology for Quantum-Based Data Encryption featured in OSA news, ScienceDaily, Yahoo! Finance, Opli, Benzinga, Digital Journal, TMCnet, and EurekAlert (12/21/2016)

• Kevin Fischer explains his research through a beautifully illustrated piece of science communication (11/21/2016)

• Marina Radulaski gives commencement speech for Physics/Applied Physics commencement ceremony (06/14/2016)
• Marina shares what inspired her to enter the field of optics in an OSA centennial interview (06/07/2016)
• Professor Vuckovic gives plenary talk at CLEO 2016. [Interview] (06/07/2016)

• Initialization of a spin qubit in a site-controlled nanowire quantum dot published in New Journal of Physics (05/16/2016)

• Precisely flawed nanodiamonds could produce next-generation tools for imaging and communications featured in Phys.org (05/12/2016)

• Complete Coherent Control of a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Nanocavity published in Scientific Reports (04/26/2016)
• Extracting miniature diamonds from crude featured in Stanford News. (03/31/2016)
• Silicon Photonics: Design approach to integrated photonics explores entire space of fabricable devices published in Laser Focus World and featured on the cover. (03/21/2016)
• Direct Bandgap Light Emission from Strained Ge Nanowires Coupled with High-Q Optical Cavities published in Nano Letters (02/27/2016)
• Self-homodyne measurement of a dynamic Mollow triplet in the solid state published in Nature Photonics and featured in Stanford News, Phys.org, Science Codex, Wireless Design Mag, EurekAlert, ScienceDaily, India Times, Futurity, and ScienceAlert. (01/25/2016)
• Hybrid Group IV Nanophotonic Structures Incorporating Diamond Silicon-Vacancy Color Centers published in Nano Letters (01/02/2016)

2015

• Complete Coherent Control of a Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Cavity Polariton System (12/30/2015)
• Ge Microdisk with Lithographically-Tunable Strain using CMOS-Compatible Process (12/18/2015)
• Nanocavity-enabled ultrafast generation of highly-indistinguishable photons (12/18/2015)
• Self-homodyne measurement of a dynamic Mollow triplet in the solid state (12/13/2015)
• Hybrid Group IV Nanophotonic Structures Incorporating Diamond Silicon-Vacancy Color Centers (09/09/2015)
• Direct Bandgap Light Emission from Strained Ge Nanowires Coupled with High-Q Optical Cavities (08/07/2015)
• Marina was awarded the Best Student Presentation award at the OSA Nonlinear 1/Optics Conference (08/04/2015)
• Ultrafast Polariton-Phonon Dynamics of Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Nanocavity Systems published in Physical Review X and featured in APS Physics, (07/16/2015)
• On-Chip Generation, Routing, and Detection of Resonance Fluorescence published in Nano Letters (07/16/2015)
• Initialization of a spin qubit in a site-controlled nanowire quantum dot via optical pumping (03/23/2015)
• Ultrafast dynamics of strongly coupled quantum dot-nanocavity systems (03/20/2015)
• Ultra-Low Threshold Monolayer Semiconductor Nanocavity Lasers published in Nature(03/16/2015)

2014

• Visible Photoluminescence from Cubic (3C) Silicon Carbide Microdisks Coupled to High Quality Whispering Gallery Modes published in ACS Photonics (12/18/14)
• Inverse design and implementation of a wavelength demultiplexing grating coupler published in Scientific Reports (11/27/14) 
  Featured in FastCompany, Stanford Engineering News, IFL Science, Phys.org, Gizmodo, and Silicon Valley Business Journal. 
  Chosen as one of the top 10 science and technology discoveries of 2014 by Phys.org. 
• Multimode nanobeam cavities for nonlinear optics: high quality resonances separated by an octave published in Optics Express (10/21/14)
• Nonlinear frequency conversion using high quality modes in GaAs nanobeam cavities published in Optics Letters (09/24/14)
• Hole-spin pumping and repumping in a p-type d-doped InAs quantum dot published in Physical Review B (09/17/14)
• Demonstration of weak optical pumping of a spin qubit in a site-controlled nanowire quantum dot (09/16/14)
• On-chip generation of indistinguishable photons using cavity quantum-electrodynamics (08/28/14)
• A carrier relaxation bottleneck probed in single InGaAs quantum dots using integrated superconducting single photon detectors published in Applied Physics Letters (08/28/14)
• Nonclassical higher-order photon correlations with a quantum dot strongly coupled to a photonic-crystal nanocavity published in Physical Review A (08/25/14)
• Sonia's thesis is complete (7/30/14)
• Hole Spin Pumping and Re-pumping in a p-type d-doped InAs Quantum Dot (09/17/14)
• Nonlinear frequency conversion using high quality modes in GaAs nanobeam cavities (07/17/14)
• A carrier relaxation bottleneck probed in single InGaAs quantum dots using integrated superconducting single photon detectors (07/17/14)
• A Light-Matter Interface based on a Single InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot in a Nanometallic Cavity (06/30/14)
• Inverse design and implementation of a wavelength demultiplexing grating coupler (06/24/14)
• Photo-oxidative tuning of individual and coupled GaAs Photonic Crystal Cavities published in Optics Express (06/12/14)
• Armand awarded the Outstanding Student Teaching Award (06/04/14)
• Second harmonic generation in GaAs photonic crystal cavites in (111)B and (001) crystal orientations published in ACS Photonics (05/30/14)
• Control of two-dimensional excitonic light emission via photonic crystal published in 2D Materials (04/13/14)
• A direct measurement of the electronic structure of Si nanocrystals and its effect on optoelectronic properties published in Journal of Applied Physics (03/18/14)
• Below-bandgap second harmonic generation in GaAs photonic crystal cavites in (111)B and (001) crystal orientations (02/17/14)
• Quantum optics and cavity QED with quantum dots in photonic crystals (02/11/14)
• Our work featured in Stanford Engineering - Year in Review (01/02/14)
• Photo-oxidative tuning of individual and coupled GaAs Photonic Crystal Cavities (01/27/14)

2013

• Photonic crystal cavities in cubic (3C) polytype silicon carbide films published in Optics Express (12/24/13)
• Deterministically Charged Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal Nanoresonators for Efficient Spin-Photon Interfaces published in New Journal of Physics (12/6/13)
• Control of Two-Dimensional Excitonic Light Emission via Photonic Crystal (11/25/13)
• Second Harmonic Generation in Photonic Crystal Cavities in (111)-Oriented GaAs published in Applied Physics Letters. (11/21/2013)
• Single-cell photonic nanocavity probes featured on the cover of Nano Letters. (11/14/2013)
• Jelena was awarded a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Technical University in Munich (10/12/13)
• Photonic Crystal Cavities in Cubic Polytype Silicon Carbide Films (10/9/13)
• Sonia wins the Ross Tucker award (9/16/13)
• Second Harmonic Generation in Photonic Crystal Cavities in (111)-Oriented GaAs (8/28/13)
• Deterministically Charged Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal Nanoresonators for Efficient Spin-Photon Interfaces (8/21/13)
• Non-classical three-photon correlations with a quantum dot strongly coupled to a photonic-crystal nanocavity (7/15/13)
• Proposed Coupling of an Electron Spin in a Semiconductor Quantum Dot to a Nanosize Optical Cavity published in Physical Review Letters (7/10/13)
• Strain-induced pseudoheterostructure nanowires confining carriers at room temperature with nanoscale-tunable band profiles published in Nano Letters (06/14/13)
• Graphene for Tunable Nanophotonic Resonators published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electonics (09/24/13)
• Gary wins the Maiman Student Paper Competition at CLEO (06/10/13)
• Jesse's thesis is complete (6/5/13)
• Gary's thesis is complete (5/26/13)
• Nanophotonic Computational Design published in Optics Express (05/25/13)
• Single-cell photonic nanocavity probes published in Nano Letters 
  Highlighted in Stanford Engineering News, Science Daily, Photonics.com, Compound Semiconductor, PhysOrg, Stanford Report, Popular Science, Laser Focus World, and IEEE Spectrum
  Watch the video on Youtube! (02/14/13)
• Photon blockade with a four-level quantum emitter coupled to a photonic-crystal nanocavity published in New Journal of Physics (02/10/13)
• Electrical Control of Silicon Photonic Crystal Cavity by Graphene published in Nano Letters (1/8/2013)

2012

• Interfacing a single quantum dot spin to an optical nano-cavity (11/26/2012)
• Design and analysis of photonic crystal coupled cavity arrays for quantum simulation published in Physical Review B (11/19/2012)
• Engineered Quantum Dot Single Photon Sources published in Reports on Progress in Physics(11/12/2012)
• Electrical Control of Silicon Photonic Crystal Cavity by Graphene (10/25/2012)
• Quasiresonant Excitation of InP/InGaP Quantum Dots Using Second Harmonic Generated in a Photonic Crystal Cavity published in Applied Physics Letters (10/19/2012)
• Photon blockade with a four-level quantum emitter coupled to a photonic-crystal nanocavity (9/24/12)
• All Optical Switching With a Single Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Photonic Crystal Cavity published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (9/21/12)
• Electrically driven photonic crystal nanocavity devices published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (9/21/12)
• Design and analysis of photonic crystal coupled cavity arrays for quantum simulation (9/16/12)
• Arka's Ph.D. Thesis is complete (8/30/12)
• Gary's presentation at PECS was awarded first place (7/25/12)
• Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with a Single Quantum Dot Coupled to a Photonic Molecule published in Physical Review B (7/18/12)
• Objective-First Nanophotonic Design
• Electrical properties of GaAs photonic crystal cavity lateral p-i-n diodes published in Applied Physics Letters (7/3/12)
• Marina was interviewed by Scientific American as part of "30 under 30", a section about students attending the upcoming Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. (6/14/12)
• Marina was awarded the Stanford Graduate Fellowship (5/24/12)
• A photonic crystal cavity-optical fiber tip nanoparticle sensor for biomedical applications published in Applied Physics Letters (5/22/12)
• Loss-enabled sub-Poissonian light generation in a bimodal nanocavity published in Physical Review Letters (5/4/12)
• Phonon-mediated coupling between quantum dots through an off-resonant microcavity published in Physical Review B (5/1/12)
• Probing the ladder of dressed states and nonclassical light generation in quantum-dot-cavity QED published in Physical Review A (4/12/12)
• Konstantinos won the EPFL PhD thesis prize (4/11/12)
• A photonic crystal cavity-optical fiber tip nanoparticle sensor for biomedical applications (4/4/12)
• Kelley won the Ross Tucker Award, given annually to outstanding graduate students whose PhD work focused on materials. (4/4/12)
• Objective-first design of high-efficiency, small-footprint couplers between arbitrary nanophotonic waveguide modes published in Optics Express.
• Kelley's Ph.D. Thesis is complete (3/12/12)
• Nonlinear Temporal Dynamics of Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Cavity System published in Physical Review A (3/5/12)
• Ultrafast Photon-Photon Interaction in a Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Cavity System published in Physical Review Letters (3/2/12)
• Electrically driven photonic crystal cavities yield low-power optoelectronic devices published in SPIE Newsroom (2/29/12)
• Bryan's Ph.D. Thesis is complete (2/10/12)
• Cavity quantum electrodynamics with a single quantum dot coupled to a photonic molecule (1/31/12)
• Photoluminescence from In0.5Ga0.5As/GaP quantum dots coupled to photonic crystal cavities published in Physcial Review B (1/23/12)
• Bichromatic driving of a solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics system published in New Journal of Physics(1/21/12)
• Photoluminescence from In0.5Ga0.5As/GaP quantum dots coupled to photonic crystal cavities (1/5/12)
• Electrically driven photonic crystal nanocavity devices (1/4/12)

2011

• Optical fiber tips functionalized with semiconductor photonic crystal cavities is in the top 20 most read articles in APL in December (12/14/11)
• Marina wins the Best BSc Thesis award in the Physics department at the University of Belgrade. (12/13/11)
• Gary's work on Ultrafast direct modulation of a single-mode photonic crystal nanocavity light-emitting diode highlighted in Forbes. 
  The journal article was the #6 most e-mailed and #8 most downloaded article in Nature Communications. (12/2/11)
• Phonon-mediated coupling between quantum dots through an off-resonant microcavity (11/30/11)
• Loss-enabled sub-Poissonian light generation in a bimodal nanocavity (11/28/11)
• Ultrafast direct modulation of a single-mode photonic crystal nanocavity light-emitting diode published in Nature Communications (11/15/11) 
  Highlighted in Stanford Report, Stanford Engineering News, Science Codex, PhysOrg, San Francisco Chronicle, Laser Focus World, Science Daily, and Wired.
• Optical fiber tips functionalized with semiconductor photonic crystal cavities published in Applied Physics Letters (11/7/11)
• The effect of photo-generated carriers on the spectral diffusion of a quantum dot coupled to a photonic crystal cavity published in Physical Review B
• Multiply resonant photonic crystal nanocavities for nonlinear frequency conversion published in Optics Express Collective Phenomena Focus Issue (10/24/11)
• Nonlinear Temporal Dynamics of Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Cavity System (10/20/11)
• Fabrication and Analysis of Epitaxially Grown Ge _{1-x} Sn _x Microdisk Resonator With 20-nm Free-Spectral Range published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (10/19/11)
• Kelley was selected for 2nd place Best Student Paper at IEEE Photonics 2011 (10/10/11)
• Off-resonant coupling between a single quantum dot and a nanobeam photonic crystal cavity
• Two of our former students, Hatice and Dirk, win PECASE awards (9/26/11)
• Kelley was selected as a finalist for the Best Student Paper award at IEEE Photonics 2011 (9/22/11)
• Nanobeam Photonic Crystal Cavity Light-Emitting Diodes is the #10 most downloaded in Applied Physics Letters in August 2011 (9/7/11)
• Probing of single quantum dot dressed states via an off-resonant cavity published in Physical Review B (8/22/11)
• Phonon mediated off-resonant quantum dot-cavity coupling under resonant excitation of the quantum dot published in Physical Review B (8/22/11)
• Nanobeam Photonic Crystal Cavity Light-Emitting Diodes published in Applied Physics Letters (8/16/11)
• The effect of photo-generated carriers on the spectral diffusion of a quantum dot coupled to a photonic crystal cavity (7/25/11)
• Ultrafast photon-photon interaction in a strongly coupled quantum dot-cavity system (7/18/11)
• Multiply resonant high quality photonic crystal nanocavities published in Applied Physics Letters (7/8/11)
• Second harmonic generation in GaP photonic crystal waveguides published in Applied Physics Letters (7/1/11)
• Nanobeam Photonic Crystal Cavity Light-Emitting Diodes (6/30/11)
• Quantum-dot PC laser has lowest-threshold emission, featured in Laser Focus World (6/22/11)
• Pushing the envelope of laser technology with ultra small mode volume QD lasers, as described in OptoIQ (6/17/11)
• Profile of our work in quantum nanophotonics featured in AZoQuantum (6/16/11)
• Probing the ladder of dressed states and nonclassical light generation in quantum dot-cavity QED (6/15/11)
• Second harmonic generation in GaP photonic crystal waveguides (6/1/11)
• Multiply resonant high quality photonic crystal nanocavities (5/31/11)
• Cavity-enhanced direct band electroluminescence near 1550 nm from germanium microdisk resonator diode on silicon published in Applied Physics Letters (5/23/11)
• Bryan's work on Ultralow-threshold electrically pumped lasers is covered by Stanford Report, Stanford Daily, and PhysOrg. (5/17/11)
• Inverse design of a three-dimensional nanophotonic resonator published in Optics Express (5/13/11)
• Bryan's work on Ultralow-threshold electrically pumped lasers was the #1 most downloaded article from Nature Photonics in May (5/6/2011)
• Ultralow-threshold electrically pumped quantum-dot photonic-crystal nanocavity laser published in Nature Photonics (4/24/11)
• Observation of Quantum Dot Dressed States by an Off-Resonant Cavity (4/5/11)
• Ultra-low power fiber-coupled gallium arsenide photonic crytsal cavity electro-optic modulator published in Optics Express (4/4/2011)
• Coherent Optical Spectroscopy of a Single Quantum Dot Via an Off-Resonant Cavity (03/14/11)
• Fast quantum dot single photon source triggered at telecommunications wavelength published in Applied Physics Letters (02/23/11)
• Low Power Resonant Optical Excitation of an Optomechanical Cavity published in Optics Express (1/13/11)
• Strong enhancement of direct transition photoluminescene with highly tensile-strained Ge grown by molecular beam epitaxy published in Applied Physics letters (1/7/11)

2010

• Phonon Mediated Off-Resonant Quantum Dot-Cavity Coupling (12/15/10)
• Direct band Ge photoluminescence near 1.6 um coupled to Ge-on-Si microdisk resonators published in Applied Physics Letters (12/13/10)
• Yiyang's Ph.D. Thesis is complete (12/3/10)
• Fast quantum dot single photon source triggered at telecommunications wavelength (12/1/10)
• Low Power Resonant Optical Excitation of an Optomechanical Cavity (11/16/10)
• Deterministic coupling of a single nitrogen vacancy center to a photonic crystal cavity published in Nano Letters (09/13/10)
• Kelley has been featured in IEEE potentials magazine online (08/04/10)
• Differential reflection spectrocopy of a single quantum dot strongly coupled to a photonic crystal cavity published in Applied Physics Letters (08/04/10)
• Proposal for high-speed and high-fidelity electron-spin initialization in a negatively charged quantum dot coupled to a microcavity in a weak external magnetic field published in Phys. Rev. A (8/2/10)
• Sum-frequency generation in doubly resonant GaP photonic crystal nanocavities published in Applied Physics Letters (07/26/10)
• Analysis of the Purcell effect in photonic and plasmonic crystals with losses published in Optics Express (07/23/10)
• Yiyang's work on SiO2 photonic crystals with silicon nanocrystals has been spotlighted by the APS (7/13/10)
• Linewidth broadening of a quantum dot coupled to an off-resonant cavity published in PRB (7/12/10)
• Yiyang's work on Photoluminescence from silicon dioxide photonic crystal cavities with embedded silicon nanocrystals has been published in PRB and was featured as an editor's choice article (6/15/10)
• Observation of transparency of erbium-doped-silicon nitride in photonic crystal nanobeam cavities published in Optics Express (6/15/10)
• Bryan's work on Electrically pumped photonic crystal nanocavity light sources was one of the top 20 most downloaded papers in Applied Physics Letters in May 2010 (6/11/10)
• Tunable-wavelength second harmonic generation from GaP photonic crystal cavities coupled to fiber tapers published in Optics Express (5/25/10)
• Deterministic coupling of a single nitrogen vacancy center to a photonic crystal cavity (5/12/10)
• Electrically pumped photonic crystal nanocavity light sources using a laterally doped p-i-n junction published in Applied Physics Letters (5/4/10)
• Yiyang's work on Silicon dioxide photonic crystal cavities was one of the top 20 most downloaded papers in Applied Physics Letters in January 2010(4/29/10)
• Nanobeam photonic crystal cavity quantum dot laser published in Optics Express (4/26/10)
• Our work on quantum dot modulators has been recently featured in Laser focus world (4/12/10)
• Generation of nonclassical states of light via photon blockade in optical nanocavities (8/29/09), published in Phys. Rev. A (3/30/10)
• Linewidth broadening of a quantum dot coupled to an off-resonant cavity (3/11/2010)
• Coupled fiber taper extraction of 1.53 um photoluminescence from erbium doped silicon nitride photonic crystal cavities (1/4/10), published in Optics Express (3/10/10)
• Maria's Ph.D. thesis is complete (3/2/10)
• Resonant excitation of a quantum dot strongly coupled to a photonic crystal nanocavity published in Physical Review Letters (2/19/10)
• Theory of electro-optic modulation via a quantum dot coupled to a nano-resonator (11/27/2009), published in Optics Express (2/16/10)
• Photonic Crystal and Plasmonic Silicon-Based Light Sources published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2/11/10)
• Inverse design of nanophotonic structures using complementary convex optimization (12/29/09), published in Optics Express (2/11/10)
• Photonic crystal cavities in silicon dioxide (10/1/09), published in Applied Physics Letters (1/30/10)
• Linewidth narrowing and Purcell enhancement in photonic crystal cavities on an Er-doped silicon nitride platform published in Optics Express (1/29/10)
• Fast Electrical Control of a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Photonic Crystal Cavity (6/5/09), published in Physical Review Letters (1/29/10)
• Enhanced two-photon processes in single quantum dots inside photonic crystal nanocavities (6/1/09), published in Physical Review B (1/6/10)

2009

• Photonic quantum technologies published in Nature Photonics (11/30/09)
• Second harmonic generation in gallium phosphide photonic crystal nanocavities with ultralow continuous wave pump power (10/27/09), published in Optics Express (11/24/09)
• Enhanced Light Emission from Erbium Doped Silicon Nitride in Plasmonic Metal-Insulator-Metal Structures (9/1/09), published in Optics Express (10/26/09)
• Maria successfully defended her PhD thesis (10/1/09)
• Photonic Crystal Cavities in Silicon Dioxide (10/1/09)
• An optical modulator based on a single strongly coupled quantum dot - cavity system in a p-i-n junction published in Optics Express (10/1/09)
• Andrei's PhD thesis is complete (9/25/09)
• Lithographic positioning of fluorescent molecules on high-Q photonic crystal cavities published in Applied Physics Letters (9/23/09)
• Deterministic generation of non-classical states of light using photon blockade (9/1/09)
• Electrically controlled modulation in a photonic crystal nanocavity (5/11/09), published in Optics Express (8/18/09)
• Our work on SiGe LED featured on Slashdot, in a Stanford School of Engineering press release, and by Laser Focus World (8/6/09)
• High-brightness single photon source from a quantum dot in a directional-emission nanocavity (4/9/09), published in Optics Express (8/4/09)
• Local temperature control of photonic crystal devices via micron-scale electrical heaters (4/28/09), published in Applied Physics Letters (7/27/09)
• Fast, High Fidelity Quantum Dot Spin Initialization without a Strong Magnetic Field by Two-Photon Processes (7/21/09)
• Bryan won the EE department Outstanding TA award for EE234 (Photonics Laboratory) (6/19/09)
• Room temperature 1.6 um electroluminescence from Ge light emitting diode on Si substrate published in Optics Express (6/15/09)
• Andrei successfully defended his PhD thesis (5/11/09)
• Single photon nonlinear optics on photonic crystal chips, published in SPIE newsroom (5/9/09)
• Time-resolved lasing action from single and coupled photonic crystal nanocavity array lasers emitting in the telecom band published in Journal of Applied Physics (5/8/09)
• Coherent excitation of a strongly coupled quantum dot-cavity system (2/16/09)
• Quantum dots in photonic crystals: From quantum information processing to single photon nonlinear optics published in Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications (2/4/09)
• Plasmonic Enhancement of Emission from Si-nanocrystals (10/27/08), published in Applied Physics Letters (1/8/09)

2008

• Our group is featured as one of Network World's "10 really cool university networking labs" (12/16/08)
• Ilya's PhD thesis is complete (12/15/08)
• Dirk won the best student paper award at MRS Fall meeting (Boston 2008) (12/3/08)
• Videos of our research available on YouTube (12/2/08)
• Andrei was selected as one of the finalists for the 2008 LEOS Annual Student Paper Awards (11/10/08)
• Coherent generation of nonclassical light on a chip via photon-induced tunneling and blockade (4/17/08), published in Nature Physics (9/22/08)
• Gallium Phosphide Photonic Crystal Nanocavities in the Visible (7/18/08), published in Applied Physics Letters (8/14/08)
• Dirk's PhD thesis is completed (8/5/08)
• Dipole induced transparency in waveguide coupled photonic crystal cavities, published in Optics Express (7/29/08)
• Ultrafast photonic crystal lasers, published in Lasers and Photonics Reviews (7/21/08)
• Probing the interaction between a single quantum dot and a photonic crystal cavity, published in Physica Status Solidi c (6/28/08)
• Congratulations to Dirk and Ilya for successfully defending their PhD theses (6/06/08)
• A team from our group has won 2nd place in the BASES I-challenge (5/27/08)
• Controlled Phase Shifts with a Single Quantum Dot, published in Science (5/9/08), highlighted by Stanford Report, CompoundSemi News, Technology Research News, Technology Research News, photonics.com, Semiconductor International, physorg.com (5/21/08)
• Quantum information processing on photonic crystal chips, published in SPIE newsroom (4/25/08)
• Enhanced light emission in photonic crystal nanocavities with Erbium-doped silicon nanocrystals, published in Applied Physics Letters (4/22/08)
• Local Tuning of Photonic Crystal Cavities Using Chalcogenide Glasses (11/5/07), published in Applied Physics Letters (1/31/08)
• Spontaneous Emission Control in High-Extraction Efficiency Plasmonic Crystals (11/30/07), published in Optics Express (1/04/08)

2007

• Q&A, further information about Controlling Cavity Reflectivity With a Single Quantum Dot (12/9/07)
• Controlling Cavity Reflectivity With a Single Quantum Dot, published in Nature (12/6/07), highlighted in Stanford Report and by optics.org (12/7/07)
• Our group's work is highlighted in Laser Focus World (10/01/07)
• Efficient Terahertz Room-Temperature Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser (5/3/07), published in APL (8/17/07)
• Low-Threshold Surface-Passivated Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser (3/22/07), published in APL (8/17/07)
• Genetic Optimization of Photonic Bandgap Structures (4/2/07), published in Optics Express (6/18/07)
• Photonix, a team from our group has won the 3rd place on the BASES E-challenge (6/3/07)
• Our work is featured in Laser Focus World (6/1/07)
• Maria won the Intel Fellowship (6/1/07)
• Local Quantum Dot Tuning on Photonic Crystal Chips (3/29/07), published in APL (5/21/07)
• Generation and Transfer of Single Photons on a Photonic Crystal Chip (9/6/06), published in Optics Express (4/23/07)
• Analysis of a Quantum Nondemolition Measurement Scheme Based on Kerr Nonlinearity in Photonic Crystal Waveguides (4/16/06), published in Optics Express (4/23/07)
• US patent No. 7,206,488, "Coupled photonic crystal resonator array arrangements and applications", H. Altug and J. Vuckovic issued (4/17/2007)
• Dynamics of Quantum Dot Photonic Crystal Lasers (3/7/07), published in APL (4/9/07), one of the most downloaded articles from Applied Physics Letters (4/07)
• Ultra Fast Nonlinear Optical Tuning of Photonic Crystal Cavities (11/29/06), published in APL(3/2/07), highlighted in Nature Photonics (4/07)
• Efficient photonic crystal cavity-waveguide couplers (2/12/07), one of the most downloaded articles from Applied Physics Letters (2/07)
• Design of plasmon cavities for solid-state cavity quantum electrodynamics applications (1/18/07)

2006

• Our work on ultrafast lasers featured in Laser Focus World (12/15/06)
• Hatice's Ph.D thesis is completed (12/14/06)
• Patterned femtosecond laser excitation of terahertz leaky modes in GaAs photonic crystals (12/14/06)
• Silicon based photonic crystal nanocavity light emitters (11/27/06), most downloaded research article from Applied Physics Letters (12/06)
• Hatice has successfully defended her PhD thesis (11/27/06)
• Our research group wins 2 out of 5 places in phase I of the Berkeley nano opportunity challenge 2006 (11/15/06)
• Hatice selected as one of the finalists for the LEOS-Newport/Spectra-Physics Annual Student Paper Awards (10/24/06)
• Efficient Photonic Crystal Cavity-Waveguide Couplers (10/12/06)
• Design of plasmon cavities for solid-state cavity QED applications (10/01/06)
• Our work highlighted in Nature Photonics (09/18/06)
• Hatice accepts a faculty position at the Boston University (07/31/06)
• Nature Physics cover and related story on our work (07/04/06)
• Nature Physics: Ultrafast photonic crystal nanocavity laser (07/04/06)
• Edo accepts faculty position at the U. of Maryland (06/26/06)
• Joel receives BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering with honors (06/26/06)
• Andrei and Ilya passed the PhD candidacy exam (06/06/06)
• Phys. Rev. A: Dispersive properties and giant Kerr non-linearities in Dipole Induced Transparency in a Single-Sided Cavity (04/28/06)
• Phys. Rev. Letters: Dipole Induced Transparency in drop filter cavity-waveguide systems (04/26/06)
• Optics Express: A direct analysis of photonic nanostructures (04/18/06)
• Bryan received the NDSEG fellowship (04/17/2006)
• IEEE LEOS Newsletter cover story on our work (04/14/06)
• Joel won the Terman Award for undergraduate achievements (03/01/06)
• Bryan and Yiyang passed the EE PhD qualifying exam (02/01/06)
• Photonics Spectra article on our work (01/25/06)
• Laser Focus World article on our work (01/13/06)

2005

• Coupling of PbS quantum dots to photonic crystal cavities at room temperature (12/05/05)
• Stanford Report story on our work (11/09/05)
• Photonic crystal nanocavity array laser (11/07/05)
• Hatice won the Newport-LEOS best student paper award at IEEE LEOS 2005 (10/24/05)
• School of Engineering Puzzle inspired by our work (10/08/05)
• Our work featured in Nature Physics (10/05/05)
• Dirk passes PhD candidacy exam (08/27/05)
• Hatice selected as one of the finalists for the Newport-LEOS best student paper award at IEEE LEOS 2005 (08/27/05)
• Our work featured on Stanford School of Engineering website (08/27/05)
• Our work highlighted in Nature (optics research highlight) (08/24/05)
• Hatice won the LEOS Graduate Student Fellowship (08/05/05)
• Optics Express: General recipe for designing photonic crystal cavities (07/27/05)
• Phys. Rev. Letters: Controlling the Spontaneous Emission Rate of Single Quantum Dots in a 2D Photonic Crystal (07/01/05)
• Optics Express: Coupled mode theory for photonic crystal cavity-waveguide interaction (06/05)
• Optics Letters: Polarization control and sensing with two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal microcavity arrays (05/05)
• Hatice won the Intel Fellowship (05/02/05)
• Ilya won the NDSEG Fellowship (03/30/05)
• Physics Web news story (03/15/05)
• Maria won the AFCEA Ralph W. Shrader Diversity Scholarship (03/15/05)