Marina Radulaski
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis
ABSTRACT: Light and matter interaction at the nanoscale has been explored for a variety of quantum technology applications in information processing, communication and sensing. The color centers, atomic defects in wide band gap semiconductor lattices, have taken a prominent role in this research. A favorable combination of optical and spin properties qualifies color centers as fast indistinguishable single-photon sources, long lived qubits and high precision nano-magnetometers. Their integration with photonic devices enables scalability and complex functionality needed for the development of quantum repeaters, quantum simulators, and more. Fabrication of nanophotonic devices containing color centers requires advanced material processing which simultaneously maintains pristine lattice crystallinity and achieves fine feature profiles. I will discuss how these experimental advances can be utilized to develop a new generation of quantum information processing hardware.
BIOGRAPHY: Marina Radulaski is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis leading the Quantum Nanophotonics Laboratory. Her academic training includes a Ph.D. in applied physics and a postdoctoral training in electrical engineering at Stanford University, as well as two undergraduate degrees in physics and computer science at the University of Belgrade and Union University in Serbia. Prof. Radulaski’s international experience in quantum and solid-state physics research was obtained at Stanford University, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Oxford University, the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna, Helmholtz Center Berlin, the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Science, and the Institute of Physics Belgrade. She was selected among the Rising Stars in EECS in 2017, and named 30-Under-30 Up and Coming Physicists by the Scientific American in 2012.