Andrei Faraon Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Material Science Visit our lab webpage Positions available for graduate students and post-docs interested in nano-photonics, quantum optics, bio-photonics. Email your CV and interests to faraon at caltech.edu
Career history Assistant Professor, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech, 10/2012- Visiting Associate, Applied Physics and Materials Science, Caltech, 08/2011-09/2012 Postdoctoral fellow, HP Laboratories, 09/2009-09/2012 Education Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Stanford University- 2009 PhD Thesis - Locally Controlled Photonic Crystal Devices with Coupled Quantum Dots: Physics and Applications M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University- 2009 B.S. in Physics with Honors, California Institute of Technology - 2004 News: · Our latest paper on coupling NV centers to photonic crystal cavities in single crystal diamond is published in Physical Review Letters · Our paper is featured on the cover of Nature Photonics, together with a back-page interview, and news and views article.
Research Interests My goal is to develop nano-photonic quantum technologies for devices that operate close to the fundamental limit of light-matter interaction. Applications include on-chip optical signal processing at ultra-low power levels, energy efficient sensors, bio-photonics and quantum information processing. Selected Publications: 1. Andrei Faraon, Charles Santori, Zhihong Huang, Victor M. Acosta, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Coupling of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers to Photonic Crystal Cavities in Monocrystalline Diamond, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, 033604 (2012), ( arXiv:1202.0806 ) 2. Andrei Faraon, Paul E. Barclay, Charles Santori, Kai-Mei C. Fu and Raymond G. Beausoleil, Resonant enhancement of the zero-phonon emission from a color center in a diamond cavity, Nature Photonics, 5, 301-205, 2011, (arXiv:1012.3815v1 [quant-ph]) 3. Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Hyochul Kim, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Fast Electrical Control of a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Photonic Crystal Cavity, Physical Review Letters, Vol 104, 047402 (2010). Highlights: Featured in Laser focus world 4. Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Coherent generation of nonclassical light on a chip via photon-induced tunneling and blockade, Nature Physics, 4, 859 - 863 (2008) (arXiv:0804.2740) 5. Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon[co-first author], Ilya Fushman, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Controlling Cavity Reflectivity With a Single Quantum Dot , Nature, vol. 450, number 7171, pp. 857-861 (2007). Highlights: See also stories by Stanford Report, optics.org; Q&A, further information about paper 6. Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon[co-first author], Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Controlled Phase Shifts with a Single Quantum Dot, Science, vol. 320, number 5877, pp. 769-772 (2008). Highlights: See also articles by Stanford Report, CompoundSemi News, Technology Research News Publications: 1. Andrei Faraon, Charles Santori, Zhihong Huang, Victor M. Acosta, Raymond G. Beausoleil, Coupling of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers to Photonic Crystal Cavities in Monocrystalline Diamond, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 109, 033604 (2012), (arXiv:1202.0806) 2. VM Acosta, C Santori, A Faraon, Z Huang, K Fu, A Stacey, DA Simpson, S Tomljenovic-Hanic, AD Greentree, S Prawer, RG Beausoleil, Dynamic stabilization of the optical resonances of single nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 206401 (2012),(arXiv:1112.5490) 3. Dirk Englund, Arka Majumdar, Michal Bajcsy, Andrei Faraon, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Ultrafast photon-photon interaction in a strongly coupled quantum dot-cavity system, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 093604 (2012), (arXiv:1107.2956v1) 4. P.E. Barclay, K-M.C. Fu, C. Santori, A. Faraon, R.G. Beausoleil, Hybrid Nanocavity Resonant Enhancement of Color Center Emission in Diamond, Physical Review X 1 (1), 011007, 2011 5. A. Faraon, A. Majumdar, D. Englund, E. Kim, M. Bajcsy, J. Vučković, Integrated quantum optical networks based on quantum dots and photonic crystals, New Journal of Physics 13, 055025, 2011 6. Zhen Peng, David A. Fattal, Andrei Faraon, Marco Fiorentino, Jingjing Li, and Raymond G. Beausoleil, Reflective silicon binary diffraction grating for visible wavelengths, Optics letters 36 (8), 1515-1517, 2011 7. Kai-Mei C. Fu, Paul E. Barclay, Charles Santori, Andrei Faraon, Raymond G. Beausoleil , Low-temperature tapered fiber probing of diamond NV ensembles coupled to GaP microcavities, New Journal of Physics 13, 055023, 2011, http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.5372 8. Andrei Faraon, Paul E. Barclay, Charles Santori, Kai-Mei C. Fu and Raymond G. Beausoleil, Resonant enhancement of the zero-phonon emission from a color center in a diamond cavity, Nature Photonics, 5, 301-205, 2011, (arXiv:1012.3815v1 [quant-ph]) 9. Arka Majumdar, Ziliang Lin, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Fast, High Fidelity Quantum Dot Spin Initialization without a Strong Magnetic Field by Two-Photon Processes, to appear in Phys. Rev. A (arXiv:0907.3187) 10. Arka Majumdar, Andrei Faraon, Erik Kim, Dirk Englund, Hyochul Kim, Pierre Petroff, and Jelena Vuckovic, Linewidth broadening of a quantum dot coupled to an off-resonant cavity, Phys. Rev. B, 82, 045306 (arXiv:1003.2350) 11. Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, and Jelena Vuckovic, Generation of nonclassical states of light via photon blockade in optical nanocavities, Phys. Rev. A, Vol 81, 033838 (2010). (arXiv:0908.4303) 12. Dirk Englund, Arka Majumdar, Andrei Faraon, Mitsuru Toishi, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, and Jelena Vuckovic, Resonant excitation of a quantum dot strongly coupled to a photonic crystal nanocavity, Physical Review Letters , Vol 104, 073904 (2010) 13. , Arka Majumdar, Nicolas Manquest, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Theory of Electro-optic Modulation via a Quantum Dot Coupled to a Nano-resonator Optics Express, Vol 18, pp. 3974-3984 (2010) (arXiv:0911.5207) 14. Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Hyochul Kim, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Fast Electrical Control of a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Photonic Crystal Cavity, Physical Review Letters, Vol 104, 047402 (2010) 15. Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Arka Majumdar, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, An optical modulator based on a single strongly coupled quantum dot - cavity system in a p-i-n junction, Optics Express, Vol 17, pp 18651-18658 (2009) 16. Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, Single photon nonlinear optics on photonic crystal chips, SPIE Newsroom (2009) 17. Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Local temperature control of photonic crystal devices via micron-scale electrical heaters, Applied Physics Letters, Vol 95, 043102 (2009), (arXiv:0904.4224) 18. Mitsuru Toishi, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, High-brightness single photon source from a quantum dot in a directional-emission nanocavity, Optics Express, Vol 17, pp 14618-14626 (2009), (arXiv:0904.1262) 19. Dirk Englund, Arka Majumdar, Andrei Faraon, Mitsuru Toishi, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Coherent excitation of a strongly coupled quantum dot-cavity system, (arXiv:0902.2428) 20. Dirk Englund, Ilya Fushman, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Quantum dots in photonic crystals: From quantum information processing to single photon nonlinear optics, Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications, Volume 7, Issue 1 (2009) 21. Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Coherent generation of nonclassical light on a chip via photon-induced tunneling and blockade, Nature Physics, 4, 859 - 863 (2008) (arXiv:0804.2740) 22. Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Dipole induced transparency in waveguide coupled photonic crystal cavities, Optics Express, Vol 16, pp 12154-12162 (2008) 23. Kelley Rivoire, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Gallium Phosphide Photonic Crystal Nanocavities in the Visible, Applied Physics Letters, Vol 93, article 063103 (2008) (arXiv:0807.2623) 24. Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Jelena Vuckovic, Probing the interaction between a single quantum dot and a photonic crystal cavity, Physica Status Solidi c , Vol 5, No. 9, pp 2808-2815 (2008) 25. Ilya Fushman, Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon[co-first author], Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Controlled Phase Shifts with a Single Quantum Dot, Science, vol. 320, number 5877, pp. 769-772 (2008).  Highlights: See also articles by Stanford Report, CompoundSemi News, Technology Research News 26. Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, Quantum information processing on photonic crystal chips, SPIE Newsroom (2008) 27. Andrei Faraon, Dirk Englund, Douglas Bulla, Barry Luther-Davies, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Local Tuning of Photonic Crystal Cavities Using Chalcogenide Glasses, Applied Physics Letters, Vol 92, article 043123 (2008) 28. Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon[co-first author], Ilya Fushman, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Controlling Cavity Reflectivity With a Single Quantum Dot , Nature, vol. 450, number 7171, pp. 857-861 (2007). Highlights: See also stories by Stanford Report, optics.org; Q&A, further information about paper 29. Andrei Faraon, Dirk Englund, Ilya Fushman, Nick Stoltz, Pierre Petroff, Jelena Vuckovic, Local Quantum Dot Tuning on Photonic Crystal Chips , Applied Physics Letters, Vol 90, article 213110 (2007).  Highlights: Editors' Choice section of Science magazine 30. Andrei Faraon, Dirk Englund, Ilya Fushman, Jelena Vuckovic, Edo Waks, Efficient photonic crystal cavity-waveguide couplers , Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, article 073102 (2007) 31. Dirk Englund, Andrei Faraon, Bingyang Zhang, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, and Jelena Vuckovic, Generation and Transfer of Single Photons on a Photonic Crystal Chip , Optics Express, Vol. 15, pp. 5550-5558 (2007)