[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Reminder: EE Seminar Friday 4/6/12

Description: Description: hseas-logo *Harvard EE Seminar Series* 3-4PM Friday, April 6, 2012 Maxwell Dworkin G125 Refreshments at 2:45 ** ** ** *“Hybrid Silicon Photonic Circuits for Chip-Scale Nonlinear and Quantum Optics”* *Hong Tang* *Associate Professor, Yale University* Silicon photonic nanostructures are widely used to localize light and enhance light-matter interactions. They are also key components in integrated photonic circuits for a variety of applications. However, due to its narrow indirect bandgap and centrosymmetric crystal, silicon does not provide some of the most desired functions for building active nonlinear or quantum optical circuits. In this talk, we show how to engineer dielectric nanostructure on a silicon platform to achieve low-loss waveguiding and ultra-high quality factor cavities in various material systems. We further demonstrate that full exploitation of hybrid photonic circuits will lead to efficient light conversion, manipulation and detection on the ubiquitous silicon platform. *Speaker:*Hong Tang is an**Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Yale University. His research utilizes integrated photonic circuits to study photon-photon, photon-mechanics and photon-spin interactions. He joined Yale faculty as an assistant professor in 2006. At Yale his group specializes in nanofabrication and precision measurement, spanning the fields of spintronics, NEMS, nanophotonics and optomechanics. He and his group hold several records, including the discovery of giant planar Hall effect, first measurement of negative resistance of single magnetic domain wall, measurement of gradient optical force on a silicon chip, demonstration of repulsive optical force, and ambient attogram mass sensing. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. *Host*: Marko Lončar _______________________________________________ Ee-seminars mailing list Ee-seminars(a)eecs.harvard.edu <mailto:Ee-seminars@eecs.harvard.edu> https://lists.eecs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ee-seminars _______________________________________________ Ee-seminars mailing list Ee-seminars(a)eecs.harvard.edu <mailto:Ee-seminars@eecs.harvard.edu> https://lists.eecs.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/ee-seminars _______________________________________________ Seas-faculty mailing list Seas-faculty(a)seas.harvard.edu <mailto:Seas-faculty@seas.harvard.edu> https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/seas-faculty