A big welcome to Kamran Akbari, who joins the group as a postdoc, coming from Prof. F. Javier García de Abajo's group at ICFO, Spain

Welcome new graduate student Antonia Neill (Toni)

Congratulations to Gavin Crowder for winning a prestigious NSERC CGS Fellowship!

Welcome to visiting PhD student, Robert Salzwedel, visiting from Prof. Andreas Knorr's group, TU Berlin

Welcome to new accelerated MSc Student, Becca Van Drunen 

Congratulations to Will Salmon for successfully passing him MSc! (Thesis link coming soon)

2016:

New paper with Peter Micher’s group published in New Journal of Physics:- Probing the transition from dressed states to the AC Stark effect in cavity-driven quantum dot-micropillar systems, New J. Phys 18, 123031 (2016).

Time-delayed quantum coherent Pyragas feedback control of photon squeezing in a degenerate parametric oscillator, Phys Rev A, 94, 023806 (2016), e-print: arXiv:1603.07137

New paper on hybrid quantum plasmonic structures published in Physical Review A.

Modal theory of modified spontaneous emission of a quantum emitter in a hybrid plasmonic photonic-crystal cavity system or arXiv link

Authored by Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli, Reuven Gordon, and Stephen Hughes

Will Cartar successfully defends accelerated masters thesis on modelling quantum dot ensembles coupled to photonic crystal cavity lasers.

Congratulations Will!

New paper with Girish Agarwal published in Physics Review Letters.

Anisotropy-Induced Quantum Interference and Population Trapping Between Orthogonal Quantum Dot Exciton States in Semiconductor Cavity Systems or arXiv link

Authored by  S. Hughes and G.S. Agarwal