Maxim Shcherbakov
University of California-Irvine, CA·Physics·Early-career
Photonic chips process information with light, but different chips use different colors of light. Near-infrared light carries communication signals, visible light is used for imaging, and mid-infrared light is used for thermal radiation and sensing.
- Fields
Physics
Engineering
Materials Science
- Topics
photonics
metasurfaces
nonlinear optics
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Feb 2029
What they work on
- Determine the fundamental properties of photonic-phononic metasurfaces that pair resonant dielectric nanostructures with phonon-polaritonic materials such as hBN and MoO3, using full-wave simulations, nanofabrication and near-field microscopy.
- Achieve on-chip wave-mixing of photons across mid-infrared, near-infrared and visible frequencies in these metasurfaces, and characterize it with femtosecond laser spectroscopy.
- Use mid-infrared light to drive single-photon emission in strained two-dimensional materials, and confirm the quantum nature of the emitted light with single-photon correlation measurements.
More about the research
Today, moving a signal from one color to another means detecting it electronically and then emitting it again, which costs efficiency and speed. This project asks how to convert light directly from one frequency to another on a chip, across five octaves from the mid-infrared to the visible.
Why it matters
Efficient light-frequency conversion on a chip could let photonic chips and chiplets that work at different colors exchange signals directly, without converting to electronics first. This could make on-chip signaling faster and more energy-efficient. It could benefit computing, signal processing, telecommunications, quantum information and biophotonics.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Alexander Khanikaev
University of Central Florida, FL·Physics
Develop a basic understanding of how light interacts with matter in quantum Floquet systems, whose properties are set by rhythmic driving in time, and identify how these interactions can be used for sensing.
Amir Safavi-Naeini
Stanford University, CA·Engineering
Design and fabricate multilayer oxide-clad thin-film lithium niobate waveguides and resonators with low loss, high nonlinearity and low sensitivity to fabrication imperfections.
Sanjay Behura
San Diego State University, CA·Materials Science
Assess the translation potential of a room-temperature quantum sensor based on optically addressable spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride, light-readable flaws in an atomically thin material, through I-Corps customer discovery.
The school
University of California-Irvine: 46 labs on PI Pages, $645M a year on research, 524 research doctorates a year.
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