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Kartik Srinivasan

Adjunct Professor

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Contact Information

UMD

Email:
kartiks@umd.edu
Office:

University of Maryland
2102 Atlantic Building
College Park, MD 20742

Office Phone:
(301) 405-8934
Lab:
PSC B0150

NIST

Email:
kartik.srinivasan@nist.gov
Office:

National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive Stop 6811
Building 216, Rm B157
Gaithersburg, MD 20899

Office Phone:
(301) 975-5938

Additional Info

CV:
KS_CV_Mar2020.pdf
Research Profile:
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About

Kartik is a Fellow of the JQI and the NIST Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Applied Physics from Caltech and worked there as a postdoctoral scholar before moving to NIST in 2007. He joined the JQI in 2019.

 

Research Areas: 

  • Integrated photonics design/fab/test
  • Integrated quantum photonics
  • Nanoscale electro-optomechanical transducers
  • Nonlinear nanophotonics

Research Groups

Recent Publications

Recent News

  • a grayscale scanning electron microscope image of a new kind of photonic device used for trapping light

    Two Light-Trapping Techniques Combine for the Best of Both Worlds

    January 3, 2023

    Taming rays of light and bending them to your will is tricky business. Light travels fast and getting a good chunk of it to stay in one place for a long time requires a lot of skillful coaxing. But the benefits of learning how to hold a moonbeam (or, more likely, a laser beam) in your hand, or on a convenient chip, are enormous. Trapping and controlling light on a chip can enable better lasers, sensors that help self-driving cars “see,” the creation of quantum-entangled pairs of photons that can be used for secure communication, and fundamental studies of the basic interactions between light and atoms—just to name a few.

  • Rendering of a light-guiding lattice of micro-rings that researchers predict will create a highly efficient frequency comb

    Novel Design May Boost Efficiency of On-Chip Frequency Combs

    September 27, 2021

    On the cover of the Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon, a prism splits a ray of light into all the colors of the rainbow. This multicolored medley, which owes its emergence to the fact that light travels as a wave, is almost always hiding in plain sight; a prism simply reveals that it was there.

  • A schematic showing how a new photonic shift can covert incoming light of frequency f into light of frequency 2f

    Enhanced Frequency Doubling Adds to Photonics Toolkit

    December 7, 2020

    The digital age has seen electronics, including computer chips, shrink in size at an amazing rate, with ever tinier chips powering devices like smartphones, laptops and even autonomous drones. In the wake of this progress, another miniature technology has been gaining steam: integrated photonics. Photons, which are the quantum particles of light, have some advantages over electrons, the namesakes of electronics. For some applications, photons offer faster and more accurate information transfer and use less power than electrons. And because on-chip photonics are largely built using the same technology created for the electronics industry, they carry the promise of integrating electronics and photonics on the same chip.