09.02.2009
Prof. Loncar's comments and views on the future of photonics and its applications are prominently featured in a Nature Photonics review of the IPNRA, NLO & SL 2009 conference in Honolulu this past July. [Nature Photonics Link]
08.23.2009
Congratulations to Qimin Quan and Yinan Zhang who were awarded fellowships from the Harvard University Center for the Enviornment.
08.04.2009
A number of new papers have been published or posted on arXiv by the group. Click here to check them out.
05.26.2009
Thomas Babinec will be speaking about his and other members of the Lončar group's work with nonclassical light emission in diamond nanowires at both the CLEO/IQEC and NDNC conferences in June.
05.26.2009
The Lončar group will be giving a number of talks in the upcoming CLEO conference in Baltimore, including an invited talk by Dr. Murray McCutcheon. Details can be found on the "Conferences" page. Additionally a number of new publications have been posted.
04.20.2009
Murray McCutcheon, Parag Deotare, and Yinan Zhang all had successful presentations at the PECS VIII conference in Australia this month, including a second place prize for the best poster in the conference for Yinan.
03.30.2009
Murray McCutcheon's paper: "Broad-band spectral control of single photon sources using a nonlinear photonic crystal cavity," has been submitted for peer review and has been posted on arXiv: 0903.4706.
03.28.2009
Parag Deotare's paper: "High Quality factor photonic crystal nanobeam cavities," has been published in APL.
03.26.2009
Yinan Zhang's paper:"Sub-micron diameter micropillar cavities with high Quality factors and ultra-small mode volumes" has been published in Optics Letters.
03.23.2009
Ian Burgess' paper "Difference-frequency generation with quantum-limited efficiency in triply-resonant cavities," has been submitted to optics express and can be viewed on arXiv: 0903.3928.
03.23.2009
Humeyra Caglayan's paper "Experimental observation of subwavelength localization using metamaterial-based cavities," has been published in Optics Letters.
03.06.2009
Parag Deotare's paper: "High Quality factor photonic crystal nanobeam cavities," has been accepted for publication in APL, and can be viewed on arXiv as article 0901.4158 or click for PDF.
02.13.2009
Yinan Zhang's paper:"Sub-micron diameter micropillar cavities with high Quality factors and ultra-small mode volumes" has been accepted for publication in optics letters. Click for arXiv.
01.29.2009
Prof. Lončar has been awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER grant that will support work in nanoscale opto- mechanical systems. (Click for news item)
01.27.2009
Parag Deotare's paper: "High Quality factor photonic crystal nanobeam cavities," has been submitted to APL, and can be viewed on arXiv.
11.04.2008
Murray McCutcheon's paper: "Design of a silicon nitride photonic crystal nanocavity with a Quality factor of one million for coupling to a diamond nanocrystal," has been published in Optics Express.
10.16.2008
Yinan Zhang's paper: "Ultra-high quality factor optical resonators based on semiconductor nanowires," has been published in Optics Express.
10.15.2008
Murray McCutcheon's paper: "Design of an ultrahigh Quality factor silicon nitride photonic crystal nanocavity for coupling to diamond nanocrystals," has been accepted for publication in Optics Express.
10.06.2008
Prof. Marko Lončar, Dr. Murray McCutcheon, Parag Deotare and Yinan Zhang will all be giving talks at the SPIE Photonics West conference in January 2009 at the San Jose Convention Center. Click this text for more details.
09.04.2008
Mughees Khan, Murray McCutcheon, and Tom Babinec's talks accepted to Materials Research Society (MRS) Boston meeting.
09.03.2008
"Observation of Coupled Cavity Structures in Metamaterials " accepted for publication in APL.
08.28.2008
Ian Burgess joins the group.
07.01.2008
Ian Frank joins the group.