Welcome to the Quantum Photonics Laboratory at the University of Maryland. We are part of the Joint Quantum Institute and the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics. We are working to develop quantum technology based on nanoscale photonic and semiconductor devices for applications in quantum computation, communication, and sensing.
Shahriar has been awarded ECE Distinguished Dissertation Award
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) has selected Shahriar Aghaeimeibodi as a recipient of the 2019 ECE Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Shahriar receives the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship.
The Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship at University of Maryland supports students with excellent qualifications who are in the latter stages of writing their dissertations.
Semiconductor quantum transistor opens the door for photon-based computing
Transistors are tiny switches that form the bedrock of modern computing—billions of them route electrical signals around inside a smartphone, for instance.
Quantum computers will need analogous hardware to manipulate quantum information. But the design constraints for this new technology are stringent, and today’s most advanced processors can’t be repurposed as quantum devices. That’s because quantum information carriers, dubbed qubits, have to follow different rules laid out by quantum physics.
Shahriar wins Graduate School’s Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for 2018
The award conveys the honor of being named among the top 2% of campus Graduate Assistants in a given year.
Sabyasachi and Aziz's work on topological photonics appeared in Science
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6376/666.full
This is also featured in perspective in Science : http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6376/638.summary
This work is also appreaed in several news articles :
New hole-punched crystal clears a path for quantum light
Optical highways for light are at the heart of modern communications. But when it comes to guiding individual blips of light called photons, reliable transit is far less common. Now, a collaboration of researchers from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), led by JQI Fellows Mohammad Hafezi and Edo Waks, has created a photonic chip that both generates single photons, and steers them around. The device, described in the Feb. 9 issue of Science, features a way for the quantum light to seamlessly move, unaffected by certain obstacles.