OSA Defects by Design: Quantum Nanophotonics in Emerging Materials Incubator

OSA Defects by Design: Quantum Nanophotonics in Emerging Materials Incubator

Website

28 – 30 October
OSA Headquarters – Washington, DC

Hosts:
Audrius Alkauskas, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Lithuania
Lee Bassett, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Kai-Mei Fu​, University of Washington, United States

The goal of the Incubator is to establish new directions for research with optically-active semiconductor defects that take advantage of unique properties afforded by emerging materials. Building on recent success in harnessing select defects like the diamond nitrogen-vacancy center for diverse applications in quantum information processing, quantum optics, nanophotonics, magnetometry, and biosensing, an opportunity exists to identify analogous systems in new materials that are optomized to improve the performance of applications like these, or that can enable entirely new avenues of research. Recent discoveries of quantum emitters in low-dimensional semiconductors, in particular, promise exciting new opportunities. Given the vast number of potential materials and defect systems, it remains a major challenge to theoretically predict and experimentally identify promising candidates in a systematic way.