Barak Dayan

2005 – 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow (CPI, Rothschild) at H. J. Kimble’s Quantum Optics Group in Caltech. Research area: Cavity QED with microtoroidal cavities.

In September 2008 I will be assuming a position at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Selected Recent Publications (2006-2008):

· “A Photon Turnstile Dynamically Regulated by One Atom”, B. Dayan, A. S. Parkins, T. Aoki, E. Ostby, K. J. Vahala and H. J. Kimble, Science 319, 1062 (2008). PDF

· “Theory of two-photon interactions with broadband down-converted light and entangled photons”, Barak Dayan, Phys. Rev. A., 76, 043813 (2007). PDF

· “Observation of Strong Coupling between One Atom and a Monolithic Microresonator”, Takao Aoki, Barak Dayan, E. Wilcut, W. P. Bowen, A. S. Parkins, T. J. Kippenberg, K. J. Vahala & H. J. Kimble, Nature 443, 671 (2006). PDF (See also the Supplementary Information PDF)

2000-2005: Ph.D. Studies at the Ultrafast Optics group of Professor Yaron Silberberg at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. My research, together with Avi Pee’r, included coherent control with entangled photons and high-power broadband down-converted light, and Coherent control of nonlinear interactions with ultrashort pulses.

Selected Publications (2000-2005):

· “Spectral Polarization and Spectral Phase Control of Entangled Photons”, B. Dayan, Y. Bromberg, I. Afek and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. A. 75, 043804 (2007). PDF

· "Nonlinear Interactions with an Ultrahigh Flux of Broadband Entangled Photons", B. Dayan, A. Peer, A.A. Friesem and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 043602 (2005). PDF

· "Temporal Shaping of Entangled Photons", A. Peer, B. Dayan, A.A. Friesem and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 073601 (2005). PDF

· “Quantum Lithography by Coherent Control of Classical Pulses”, A. Pe’er, B. Dayan, M. Vucelja, Y. Silberberg and A. A. Friesem, Opt. Express 12, 6600 (2004). PDF

· “Two-Photon Absorption and Coherent Control with Broadband Down-Converted Light”, B. Dayan, A. Peer, A.A. Friesem and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 023005 (2004). PDF

· “Optical Code-Division Multiple Access Using Broadband Parametrically Generated Light”, A. Pe’er, B. Dayan, Y. Silberberg and A.A. Friesem , J. Lightwave Technol. 22, 1463 (2004). PDF

· “Coherent Control with Broadband Squeezed Vacuum”, B. Dayan, A. Pe’er, A.A. Friesem and Y. Silberberg, arXiv: quant-ph 302038 Feb (2003). PDF

· “Transform-Limited Pulses are Not Optimal for Resonant Multiphoton Transitions”,  N. Dudovich, B. Dayan, S. M. G. Faeder and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett., 86, 47 (2001). PDF

Patents :

· "METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR USE IN OPTICAL CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (OCDMA)", International Patent Application No. PCT/IL2004/000328, International Publication Number: WO 2004/092776 A2, in the name of Yeda Research and Development CO. Ltd. Inventor: Asher A. Friesem, Yaron Silberberg, Avi Pe'er and Barak Dayan.