Photonics

Photonics

 

Color bands across a field of light

Advances in nano-fabrication and new materials continue to enable novel ways of controlling the creation, propagation and trapping of light in wavelength-scale structures. We engage in cutting-edge research on a broad range of exciting and innovative areas at the frontier of photonics and quantum optics, focusing on both fundamental physics and the practical applications of these concepts to technology.

At Princeton, we have ongoing efforts from discovering novel ways of performing high-speed optical signal and image processing to designing high-efficiency optical devices such as efficient light-emitting diodes, nonlinear frequency converters, photonic crystals, solar absorbers, compact coherent light sources, single-photon sources, and quantum simulators. We also explore fundamental aspects of light-matter interactions including Casimir forces, quantum many-body physics with coupled light-matter systems, and dynamics and control of quantum emitters.

Faculty

Stephen Y. Chou
Joseph C. Elgin Professor of Engineering
Nathalie de Leon
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jason W. Fleischer
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Tian-Ming Fu
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Princeton Bioengineering Initiative
Claire Gmachl
Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering
Associate Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Sarang Gopalakrishnan
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andrew Houck
Anthony H.P. Lee '79 P11 P14 Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Stephen A. Lyon
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Iain McCulloch
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor for Energy and the Environment
Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Paul Prucnal
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Center for Network Security and Access (CNSA)
Barry P. Rand
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Alejandro Rodriguez
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director of Education Program MIRTHE+
Kaushik Sengupta
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jeff Thompson
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hakan Türeci
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director of Graduate Studies
Gerard Wysocki
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director of MIRTHE+
Saien Xie
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute