This is the website of the Optical Device Research Group at the National University of Singapore managed by Aaron Danner, an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Our group is interested in the future of optics and photonics, especially materials and structures that can enhance light-matter interaction, in order to target applications in optical communications, arbitrary optical wavefront generation and detection, quantum information processing, and holography. We are interested in fabrication with nonlinear optical materials and devices, and our group is actively engaged in industrially-relevant research in vertical cavity lasers, solar cells, and nonlinear optical materials useful for long distance optical fiber communications and on-chip quantum optics with lithium niobate-on-insulator and barium titanate-on insulator. Materials such as lithium niobate are traditionally rather difficult to work with in terms of practical fabrication challenges, but overcoming some of these challenges would permit photonics-lab-on-chip applications, quantum-optics-on-chip applications, and allow miniaturization of traditionally large external optical modulators. This will be necessary not only for future optical datacom applications, but also for quantum optics applications where programmatic control of single photons will ultimately be required. Our group also hosts the undergraduate student NUS Solar Powered Helicopter Team.
Our group recently was awarded a $7 million Competitive Research Project from Singapore's National Research Foundation related to Ising Computers and we are actively working on optical Ising machines.
A step-by-step description of the pseudopotential method may be useful for students trying to learn the method. The link also includes a downloadable Mathematica file that implements the method. If you find this software and description helpful, the following article can be referenced:
Would you like to build your own solar quadcopter? Engineering drawings and weight tables are now published.
This is the website of the Optical Device Research Group at the National University of Singapore managed by Aaron Danner, an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
