- 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.
