Dr. Frank Koppens
Dr. Frank Koppens
New ICFO Junior GL
ICFO welcomes a new Junior Group Leader, Dr. Frank Koppens.
June 22, 2009
Dr. Frank Koppens is joining ICFO as a Junior Group Leader with a research program that operates at the border of nano-optoelectronics, plasmonics and solid-state quantum information processing.
Dr. Frank Koppens received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Technology in Delft (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience). His main achievements include the realization of coherent control of a single electron spin in a semiconductor quantum dot, and the experimental study of single spin coherence times. He is currently an IQSE fellow at Harvard University, working on the coupling of single photon emitters to surface plasmons in metallic nano-structures and integrating these with nanoscale electronic devices. Recently, electrical detection of surface plasmons and single plasmon sources was realized by integrating a plasmonic waveguide with a nanoscale photodetector.
Dr. Frank Koppens’ research program goal is to develop surface plasmonic circuits that are strongly coupled to single photon sources and integrated in the near field with nanoscale optoelectronic devices. This versatile system allows for the electrical generation of (single) surface plasmons which are subsequently guided and manipulated in nanoscale metallic waveguides and detected all-electrically using nanoscale (superconducting or semiconducting) devices. These nano-optical circuits operate entirely in the near-field, without conversion to far-field photons. This approach has a variety of applications such as efficient on-chip sensing and the implementation of nanoscale optoelectronic circuits and quantum information processing schemes based on photons and spins. In particular, his group will study the spin associated with a color center in diamond, which has remarkably long coherence times at room temperature and can be used as a novel tool for highly sensitive magnetic field detection with nanoscale resolution.
Dr. Frank Koppens received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Technology in Delft (Kavli Institute of Nanoscience). His main achievements include the realization of coherent control of a single electron spin in a semiconductor quantum dot, and the experimental study of single spin coherence times. He is currently an IQSE fellow at Harvard University, working on the coupling of single photon emitters to surface plasmons in metallic nano-structures and integrating these with nanoscale electronic devices. Recently, electrical detection of surface plasmons and single plasmon sources was realized by integrating a plasmonic waveguide with a nanoscale photodetector.
Dr. Frank Koppens’ research program goal is to develop surface plasmonic circuits that are strongly coupled to single photon sources and integrated in the near field with nanoscale optoelectronic devices. This versatile system allows for the electrical generation of (single) surface plasmons which are subsequently guided and manipulated in nanoscale metallic waveguides and detected all-electrically using nanoscale (superconducting or semiconducting) devices. These nano-optical circuits operate entirely in the near-field, without conversion to far-field photons. This approach has a variety of applications such as efficient on-chip sensing and the implementation of nanoscale optoelectronic circuits and quantum information processing schemes based on photons and spins. In particular, his group will study the spin associated with a color center in diamond, which has remarkably long coherence times at room temperature and can be used as a novel tool for highly sensitive magnetic field detection with nanoscale resolution.