Jelena Vuckovic

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. - Caltech, 2002

Biography

Research Group: Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab

News

• Fast Electrical Control of a Quantum Dot Strongly Coupled to a Photonic Crystal Cavity published in Phys. Rev. Letters (1/30/10)
• Linewidth narrowing and Purcell enhancement in photonic crystal cavities on an Er-doped silicon nitride platform published in Optics Express(1/30/10)
• Inverse design of nanophotonic structures using complementary convex optimization and Jesse's cool movie about it (1/5/10)
• Photonic quantum technologies published in Nature Photonics (11/30/09)

Earlier news

Associate Professor (with tenure), Stanford Electrical Engineering, Sept. 2008-

Assistant Professor, Stanford Electrical Engineering, Jan. 2003-Aug. 2008

[Also affiliated with: Ginzton Laboratory, and Stanford Photonics Research Center]

Acting Assistant Professor, Stanford Electrical Eng., Sept. 2002-Dec. 2002

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford: Jan. 2002-Aug. 2002

School of Engineering profile

CV

Recent Awards

Teaching Excellence Award, Stanford Society of Women Engineers, 2009

Chambers Faculty Scholar, Stanford University, 2008

DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2008

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), 2007

Okawa Foundation Research Grant Recipient, 2006

Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2006

Frederick E. Terman Fellow, 2003
Charles Lee Powell Foundation Faculty Award Recipient, 2002

Principal Investigator of the MURI Center for Photonic Quantum Information Systems (2003-2009)

Contact info

Ginzton Laboratory
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4088
e-mail (@stanford.edu): jela
phone: (650) 725-2288

fax:    (650) 723-5320

Office: Ginzton 1
Labs: Ginzton 52 and 53

Administrative Associate:
Ingrid Tarien

Research interests

Experimental and theoretical research in nanophotonics and quantum photonics.

Topics include: Quantum optics, cavity QED and quantum information processing with quantum dots in photonic crystals; single quantum dot switches and modulators; active silicon nanophotonics; photonic crystal lasers and solar cells; nanometallics; inverse photonic crystal design; nonlinear optics in photonic crystals; and single molecule spectroscopy in optical nanocavities. 

For more info, please visit the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab site.

Publications

Classes

Currently teaching: EE234 - Photonics laboratory (for other classes, follow the link on the left)