Research

Quantum Optics

• Studying and working with color centers. These are quantum emitters which are sources of light in quantum communication, and provide a spin-photon interface that can be used as a quantum bit.

• Color center integration with resonant and nanophotonic structures results in desired light-matter interaction which has applications in quantum communication and computation.

• Interested in quantum electrodynamics (QED), cavity QED, and circuit QED to understand spin-photon interface and quantum bits.

Ph.D. Supervisor: Dr. Marina Radulaski

Photonic Crystals

Photonic Crystals (PhCs) are just like crystal lattices except they can control the motion of photons instead of electrons. They can be used to make TE/TM waveguides, beam-splitters, polarization filters etc. In my undergraduate research, I worked with 2D photonic crystals. I modeled PhCs and performed FDTD simulations on them. My undergraduate thesis title is "Tunability of Polazrization Filtering Using 2D Photonic Crystals in the NIR Regime". I completed my thesis under the supervision of Dr. Md Zunaid Baten. For performing FDTD simulations, I used MEEP and MPB. Both are open source software tools developed by MIT.

Reference Book: Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light