Jelena Vuckovic

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. - Caltech, 2002

Research Group: Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics

Career history

Associate Professor, Stanford Electrical Engineering, Sept. 2008-

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

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

[Also affiliated with Ginzton Lab]

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford: Jan.- Aug. 2002

CV and brief biography 

Current and former students and postdocs

News

Recent awards

Humboldt Prize (Humboldt Research Award), 2010

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, Stanford University, 2003
Charles Lee Powell Foundation Faculty Award, Stanford University, 2002

For details, see Google Scholar Citations profile or CV. 

For selected publications, follow the link on the left.  

Recent press and popular articles

• SPIE newsroom article on our work (02/29/12)

• Our high-speed single mode photonic crystal LED featured in Stanford Report, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, Forbes, Stanford Engineering News, Stanford Daily, Laser Focus World, Physorg,  Science Codex, Science Daily., ... (12/03/11)

• Two of my former PhD students, Hatice & Dirk, win PECASE awards (09/26/11)

• Our work on nanolaser featured in Stanford Report,  Stanford Daily, Physorg, Laser Focus World and Laser Focus World Newsbreak (06/22/11)

• Quantum Nanophotonics on AZoquantum (05/2011)

Recent research articles

• Loss-enabled sub-Poissonian light generation in a bimodal nanocavity published in Physical Review Letters (5/4/12)

• Phonon-mediated coupling between quantum dots through an off-resonant microcavity published in Physical Review B (5/1/12)

• Probing the ladder of dressed states and nonclassical light generation in quantum-dot--cavity QED published in Physical Review A (4/12/12)

• A photonic crystal cavity-optical fiber tip nanoparticle sensor for biomedical applications (4/9/12)

• Objective-first design of high-efficiency, small-footprint couplers between arbitrary nanophotonic waveguide modes published in Optics Express (3/14/12)

• Nonlinear temporal dynamics of a strongly coupled quantum-dot--cavity system published in Physical Review A (3/5/12)

• Ultrafast Photon-Photon Interaction in a Strongly Coupled Quantum Dot-Cavity System published in Physical Review Letters (3/2/12)

Earlier news

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Contact

Ginzton Laboratory

Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Stanford University  

348 Via Pueblo Mall  

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

Office: Nano #209;  Labs: Nano #SB 15

   Administrative Associate: Ingrid Tarien