Paper 13381-17
Paper 13381-17
Extreme space-time optics and quantum meta-photonics (Invited Paper)
27 January 2025 • 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM PST | Moscone South, Room 155 (Upper Mezz)
Abstract
We first discuss all-optical modulation with single photons using electron avalanche, resulting in record-high nonlinearities. Then we show that transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) operating in the near-zero index (NZI) regime can provide strong single-cycle modulation, thus enabling novel photonic time crystals. Finally, we discuss scalable quantum photonics with single-photon emitters in silicon nitride that we recently discovered as well as the intriguing possibility to generate indistinguishable single photons by using plasmonic speedup that could enable important quantum photonics applications, including quantum communication and quantum computing.
Presenter
Vladimir M. Shalaev
Purdue Univ. (United States)
Vladimir M. Shalaev is Scientific Director for Nanophotonics at Birck Nanotechnology Center and Distinguished Professor of ECE at Purdue University. Prof. Shalaev has received several awards for his research, including the APS Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids, the Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America for his pioneering contributions to the field of optical metamaterials, the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, Rolf Landauer medal of the ETOPIM (Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media) International Association, the UNESCO Medal for the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies, and the OSA and SPIE Goodman Book Writing Award. Prof. Shalaev is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in physics by the Web of Science GrGroup for 7 consecutive years, in 2017-2023. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, APS, SPIE, MRS and Optica.