Fwd: University PhD Disseration Defense for Ilya Fushman

Dear Labmembers,

I'd like to invite you to attend my defense. 

Please see the email below.

-ilya

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Department of Applied Physics

University PhD Dissertation Defense

Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystals: From Quantum Information Processing to Single Photon Nonlinear Optics

Ilya Fushman

Research Advisor: Professor Jelena Vuckovic

5 June 2008 @4:15 p. m.

in

Applied Physics Building,  Room 200

Abstract

Photonic crystal cavities have emerged as one of the leading technology platforms for classical and quantum information processing with photons. These cavities possess extremely small optical volumes and high quality factors, which result in long photon storage times and high field intensities inside these nano-resonators. The field intensities due to single photons inside such resonators are significant, and allow the exploration of light-matter interaction at the single photon level. Furthermore, these devices are fabricated in standard high index semiconductors, and thus benefit from existing technologies, scaling, integration and mass production. The combination of photonic crystals with optically active materials such as quantum dots and quantum wells offer the possibility of exploring novel regimes of light-matter interaction and the implementation of information processing devices.
We have recently demonstrated that the presence of a single semiconductor quantum dot inside a photonic crystal cavity can strongly modify the transmission of photons through the resonator. [1] Furthermore, due to the enhancement of the electromagnetic field intensity, the nonlinear properties of a single quantum dot can realize interactions between photon streams at the single photon level. We have exploited this effect to demonstrate a controlled phase shift interaction between photons, which serves as a proof of concept for quantum logic with photons on a semiconductor chip. [2] We have also shown that such cavities are extremely sensitive to local changes in refractive index, and can be used to realize all-optical modulation at high rates exceeding 20GHz, with applications to classical information processing. [3] The speed of such modulators is limited by the free-carrier lifetime of electron-hole pairs inside the semiconductor, which is greatly reduced relative to the bulk value by the large surface-area to volume ratio of photonic crystals.

[1] Controlling Cavity Reflectivity With a Single Quantum Dot, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Nature, vol. 450, number 7171, pp. 857-861 (2007)
[2] Controlled Phase Shifts with a Single Quantum Dot, Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Science, vol. 320, number 5877, pp. 769-772 (2008)

[3] Ultra Fast Nonlinear Optical Tuning of Photonic Crystal Cavities, Ilya Fushman, Edo Waks, Dirk Englund, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, and Jelena Vuckovic, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, article 091118 (2007) (arXiv:physics/0611303)

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