Kartik Srinivasan

Kartik Srinivasan is a Project Leader in the Nanofabrication Research Group in the CNST. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from the California Institute of Technology, where his graduate research was supported by a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Fellowship. After receiving his B.S., he worked for one year at XPonent Photonics, a startup company based in Monrovia, CA. Before coming to NIST, he worked at Caltech as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Physics of Information. At the CNST, he leads projects in the field of nanophotonics. Kartik has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review, Nature, and Science, on topics including microcavity lasers, chip-based cavity quantum electrodynamics, near-field optical probing, quantum frequency conversion, and on the electromagnetic design and nanofabrication of photonic crystal devices. He has been awarded both the Sigma Xi Young Scientist Award for 2011 and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent research careers.

 

Nanophotonics Laboratory

Programs/Projects:

• Measuring Strong Light-Matter Interactions in Chip-Based Optical Cavities
• Efficient Optical Spectroscopy of Single Solid-State Quantum Emitters
• Quantum Frequency Conversion of Single Photons
• Cavity Optomechanical Sensors for Atomic Force Microscopy

Selected Publications

• A circular dielectric grating for vertical extraction of single quantum dot emission, M. Davanço, M.T. Rakher, D. Schuh, A. Badolato, and K. Srinivasan, Applied Physics Letters 99, 041102 (2011).
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• Optomechanical transduction of an integrated silicon cantilever probe using a microdisk resonator, K. Srinivasan, H. Miao, M. T. Rakher, M. Davanco, and V. Aksyuk, Nano Letters 11, 791-797 (2011).
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• Quantum transduction of telecommunications-band single photons from a quantum dot by frequency upconversion, M. T. Rakher, L. Ma, O. Slattery, X. Tang, and K. Srinivasan, Nature Photonics 4, 786-791 (2010).
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• Linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of a strongly-coupled microdisk-quantum dot system, K. Srinivasan and O. Painter, Nature 450, 862-865 (2007).
• Quantum cascade surface-emitting photonic crystal laser, R. Colombelli, K. Srinivasan, M. Troccoli, O. Painter, C. Gmachl, D.M. Tennant, A.M. Sergent, D.L. Sivco, A.Y. Cho, and F. Capasso, Science 302, 1374-1377 (2003).
• Momentum space design of high-q photonic crystal optical cavities, K. Srinivasan and O. Painter, Optics Express 10, 670-684 (2002).