Jeff Young

Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Current Projects

  • Nonlinear properties of high-Q SOI-based photonic microcavities
  • Integrated non-classical light sources in SOI-based on parametric down-conversion
  • Integrated superconducting single-photon detectors on silicon waveguides in SOI
  • Scalable architectures for fault-tolerant photon-spin enabled quantum computing

Selected Publications

  • Xiruo Yan, Warit Asavanant, Hirsh Kamakari, Jingda Wu, Jeff F. Young, Robert Raussendorf, “A quantum computer architecture based on silicon donor qubits coupled by photons”, Advanced Quantum Technologies, (2020)
  • Schelew, E., Ge, R.C., Hughes, S., Pond, J. and Young, J.F., “Self-consistent numerical modeling of radiatively damped Lorentz oscillators”, Phys. Rev. A 95 063853 (2017).
  • M.K. Akhlaghi, E. Schelew, J.F. Young. Waveguide integrated superconducting single-photon detectors implemented as near-perfect absorbers of coherent radiation. Nat. Commun. 6, 8233 (2015).
  • Charles A. Foell, Ellen Schelew, Haijun Qiao, Keith A. Abel, Stephen Hughes, Frank C. J. M. van Veggel, and Jeff F. Young, “Saturation behaviour of colloidal PbSe quantum dot exciton emission coupled into silicon photonic circuits”, Opt. Exp. 20, 10453, (2012).
  • S. Hughes, L. Ramunno, J.F. Young, J.E. Sipe. Extrinsic optical scattering loss in photonic crystal waveguides: Role of fabrication disorder and photon group velocity. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 033903 (2005).