JQI has named four new Fellows in 2019, bringing the total number to 35. All four of the new arrivals have appointments in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland. One Fellow is also a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMD and another is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Kartik Srinivasan, who was appointed as a JQI Fellow in February, received his doctoral degree in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology.
Srinivasan is a project leader and NIST Fellow at the NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory in the Photonics and Plasmonics Group, where his lab develops nanoscale quantum devices that manipulate photons—the smallest bundles of light—with an eye toward applications in quantum information science, sensing and metrology. Recently his group has been studying new ways to generate individual photons and alter their wavelengths.
Srinivasan received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2010 and the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal in 2014. He recently coauthored a paper published in Nature Physics that described a device that creates entangled photons, with one at wavelengths commonly used in fiberoptic communications and another at wavelengths where atomic systems operate. Srinivasan will present at the Quantum.Tech conference in Boston on Sept. 11, and will also give talks at the Single Photon Workshop 2019 in Milan in October and the Workshop on Microcavities and Their Applications in Hong Kong in December.