UW Nanophotonics Lab

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03/30/2012: Nature Photonics publishes our paper titled "Myths and rumours of silicon photonics".
03/23/2012: Nature features an article on OpSIS titled "Photonic chips made easier".
03/15/2012: Optics Express publishes our paper, "Bandwidth enhancement of waveguide-coupled photodetectors with inductive gain peaking".
03/06/2012: This first ever Advanced Optical Materials cover design features our work on a silicon–polymer hybrid slot waveguide ring-resonator modulator being poled by two pyroelectric crystals, as shown below.
03/05/2012: Advanced Materials publishes our paper, "Efficient Poling of Electro-Optic Polymers in Thin Films and Silicon Slot Waveguides by Detachable Pyroelectric Crystals".
02/25/2012: Ran Ding's talk "A Silicon Platform for High-Speed Photonics Systems" is accepted as an invited talk at OFC 2012 (link).
02/09/2012: OVUM features an article covering the new OpSIS-Luxtera shuttle service collaboration.
11/06/2011: Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology publishes our paper on our robust process for fabricating passive silicon photonic components by direct-write electron beam lithography (EBL).
10/18/2011: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters publishes our paper on an efficient strip to strip-loaded slot mode converter in SOI.
10/1/2011: Laser Focus World features an article on OpSIS and BAE Systems new foundry service for silicon photonics manufacturing.
9/29/2011: OptoIQ features an article on A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and the University of Washington joining forces to provide a shared silicon photonics process.
7/23/2011: Alex Spott's work on MIR Silicon Waveguides is featured in the 2011 UW Electrical Engineering Kaleidoscope research review.
7/20/2011: The Strategic News Service publishes an article about OpSIS.
7/3/2011: SPIE Professional publishes an article on OpSIS.
6/28/2011: Photonics Spectra publishes an article about OpSIS.
6/14/2011: Applied Physics Letters publishes Ran's paper Low-loss asymmetric strip-loaded slot waveguides in silicon-on-insulator.
6/14/2011: The Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics selects Jeremy's paper Optical detection of target molecule induced aggregation of nanoparticles by means of high-Q resonators for re-publication.
5/26/2011: Optics Express publishes our paper Photolithographically fabricated low-loss asymmetric silicon slot waveguides.
4/29/2011: Advanced Substrate News has an article on Opsis and silicon photonics.
3/29/2011: Optics Express publishes our paper Optical detection of target molecule induced aggregation of nanoparticles by means of high-Q resonators.
3/17/2011: The IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology publishes our paper Sub-Volt Silicon-Organic Electrooptic Modulator.
2/17/2011: Laser Focus World mentions our recent work on MIR waveguides.
2/16/2011: Optics Express publishes our paper Silicon-polymer hybrid slot waveguide ring-resonator modulator.
2/16/2011: Lab on a Chip publishes our paper Multiplexed inkjet functionalization of silicon photonic biosensors.
12/25/2010: Our new OpSIS website goes live. There will be an OpSIS kickoff with Carver Mead, Justin Rattner, Matt O'Donnell and Michael Hochberg on Feb 1, 2011. Please see the OpSIS website for more information.
11/24/2010: Applied Physics Letters publishes our paper Silicon waveguides and ring resonators at 5.5 μm.
11/16/2010: Optics Express publishes our paper Low-loss strip-loaded slot waveguides in Silicon-on-Insulator.
9/13/2010: We post our paper Sub-Volt Silicon-Organic Electrooptic Modulator on the Arxiv pre-print server.
9/11/2010: We post our paper Silicon Waveguides and Ring Resonators at 5.5 μm on the Arxiv pre-print server.
9/11/2010: The IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics publishes our paper Theoretical Study of Optical Rectification at Radio Frequencies in a Slot Waveguide.
8/31/2010: We are now recruiting for a new position - we'd like to find someone to help us commercialize a technology we have developed.
7/31/2010: Nature Photonics publishes our paper Towards fabless silicon photonics.
7/28/2010: Optics Express publishes our paper Design of transmission line driven slot waveguide Mach-Zehnder interferometers and application to analog optical links.
7/8/2010: Optics Express publishes our paper Demonstration of a low V_πL modulator with GHz bandwidth based on electro-optic polymer-clad silicon slot waveguides.
6/16/2010: Our new JEOL JBX-6300FS E-Beam Lithography System is installed.
6/13/2010: The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics publishes our paper Label-Free Biosensor Arrays Based on Silicon Ring Resonators and High-Speed Optical Scanning Instrumentation.
5/24/2010: Optics Express publishes our paper Silicon-on-sapphire integrated waveguides for the mid-infrared.
3/12/2010: The New York Times publishes an article on integrating photonics with electronics and quotes Prof. Hochberg.
3/12/2010: SPIE publishes an article discussing recent developments in silicon photonics, and includes a discussion of some of Prof. Hochberg's work.
3/12/2010: Applied Physics Letters publishes our paper Nanogap quantum dot photodetectors with high sensitivity and bandwidth.
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.

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