With ever-increasing demand for processing both classical and quantum information, it is clear that Moore’s law is nearing its end within the next few years. The next technological revolution will be to fully unlock the power of light (low loss, large bandwidth and extreme precision) by nanoscale photonic technology, enabling light-matter interactions at ultralow optical powers and massive integration of optical and electronic devices on a single chip.
Our lab will lead efforts in integrated nonlinear photonics for classical and quantum applications. We aim to advance the fundamental understanding of nonlinear sciences at nanoscale, as well as realize next-generation optoelectronic circuits which could sit on our finger tips and solve real-life problems in classical and non-classical optical communication, computing, sensing, ranging and metrology.
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Integrated optical frequency combs: metrology, lidar, communications, and sensing
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Novel nonlinear photonic technologies
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Integrated optoelectronic platform
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Exploring new photonic materials
Recent News
- Dec 1, 2023 – We are awarded with the DARPA NAPSAC to develop ultraslow power computing cores with enhanced parallelism, precision and scalability !
- Sep 31, 2023 – Mengjie is awarded with DARPA Young Investigator Award to develop ultrafast photonic circuits for ultrashort pulse synthesis on chip!
- Jun 19, 2023 – A new Nature Photonics paper on optical isolator!
- Jun 15, 2023 – We are awarded with the DARPA OpTlm to develop Optomechanical Thermal Imaging sensor!
- Jan 16, 2022 – Mengjie received Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) Grant!
- Nov 16, 2022 – Mengjie published a new Nature paper!
- Oct, 2022 – Mengjie won the 2022 Powell Faculty Research Award!
- Oct 22, 2022 – Mengjie gave an invited talk at Quantum 2022, with > 60,000 views online!
- Oct 18, 2022 – Mengjie won the Optica Foundation Award to address the 20th Anniversary Challenge using optics!
- Oct, 2022 – Mengjie won the 2022 Powell Faculty Research Award
- Oct 17 2022 – Mengjie gave an invited talk at Frontiers in Optics (FiO) 2022
- Oct 16 2022 – The Integrated Photonics Technical Group has won the most popular event award 2021, under the chair term of Mengjie
- Oct 10, 2022 – Mengjie gave an invited talk at CREOL Fall Colloquium online
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