- 1/27/2010: The UW Nanophotonics Lab is searching for a staff member. Please see our recruiting page for more information - make sure to contact recruiting@uwnano.org for this position. Please do not contact anyone in our lab group directly.
- 1/7/2010: Students who have contacted the UW Nanophotonics Lab directly concerning graduate admissions should have received an email containing further information about the recruiting process in the past week. If you have contacted the UW Nanophotonics Lab concerning a graduate position, and did not receive this email, please contact Tom Baehr-Jones at baehrjt@washington.edu.
- 11/15/2009: Scientific American features our work in an article on optically actuated nanodevices.
- 11/6/2009: We demonstrate the first integrated silicon waveguides in the mid-infrared.
- 7/9/2009: Prof. Michael Hochberg wins a Presidential Early Career Award.
- 4/1/2009: Silicon Photonics: Slot Machine article published in Nature Photonics.
- 1/6/2009: Press release from JEOL USA about our new electron beam lithography tool.
- 1/6/2009: News coverage about our new electron beam lithography tool.
- 12/1/2008: We have received a grant from the Murdock Foundation in support of a $700,000 shared optoelectronic test facility.
- 11/27/2008: Harnessing optical forces in integrated photonic circuits article published in Nature.
News coverage in Scientific American,
the Seattle P-I,
New Scientist,
Physorg,
Photonics.com,
Small Times,
on the National Science Foundation's website, and elsewhere.
News and Views written about this article by Tobias Kippenberg.
- 11/11/2008: Our work is referenced in a Technology Review article on plasmonics.
- 9/30/2008: All Optical Modulation in a Silicon Waveguide Based on a Single-Photon Process Paper published by Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
- 9/1/2008: We have secured funding for an electron beam lithography tool from JEOL, to be installed in the next year.
- 7/29/2008: Nanophotonics group in the news
- 6/6/2008: "Polymer Silicon Hybrid Systems: a Platform for Practical Nonlinear Optics" Paper publshed by Journal of Physical Chemistry C
- 4/23/2008: "Nonlinear polymer-clad silicon slot waveguide modulator with a half wave voltage of 0.25 V" Paper published by Applied Physics Letters
- 2/2/2008: Tektronix Corporation Donation of new test equipment (valued at approximately $100,000) to the Nanophotonics Laboratory, including a 20 GHz sampling oscilloscope and a 6 GHz real-time oscilloscope. Tektronix's generous support is greatly appreciated.
- 1/29/2008: Paper "Photodetection in silicon beyond the band edge with surface states" Paper published by Optics Express
- 1/25/2008: "Design of a tunable, room temperature, continuous-wave terahertz source and detector using silicon waveguides" Paper published by Journal of the Optical Society of America B
- 10/19/2007: Professor Hochberg won a 2007 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program award.
