Laura Kim

ORCID: 0000-0002-9745-3668
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Research Areas
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
  • Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
  • Quantum optics and atomic interactions
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Graphene research and applications
  • Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies
  • Nonlinear Optical Materials Studies
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Semiconductor materials and devices

California Institute of Technology
2014-2024

Cambridge Electronics (United States)
2020-2023

Vassar College
2023

University of California, Los Angeles
2023

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021-2022

All matter at finite temperatures emits electromagnetic radiation due to the thermally induced motion of particles and quasiparticles. Dynamic control this could enable design novel infrared sources; however, spectral characteristics radiated power are dictated by energy density emissivity, which ordinarily fixed properties material temperature. Here we experimentally demonstrate tunable electronic blackbody emission from graphene plasmonic resonators on a silicon nitride substrate. It is...

10.1038/ncomms8032 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2015-05-07

Graphene nanostructures that support surface plasmons have been utilized to create a variety of dynamically tunable light modulators, motivated by theoretical predictions the potential for unity absorption in resonantly-excited monolayer graphene sheets. Until now, generally low efficiencies resonant absorbers limited mismatch between free-space photons and plasmons. Here, we develop nanophotonic structures overcome this demonstrate electronically perfect achieved with patterned graphenes...

10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04393 article EN Nano Letters 2018-01-10

The optical absorption properties of periodically patterned graphene plasmonic resonators are studied experimentally as the sheet is placed near a metallic reflector. By varying size and carrier density graphene, parameters for achieving surface impedance closely matched to free-space $({Z}_{0}\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}377\phantom{\rule{0.16em}{0ex}}\ensuremath{\Omega})$ determined shown result in 24.5% total sheet. Theoretical analysis shows that complete...

10.1103/physrevb.90.165409 article EN publisher-specific-oa Physical Review B 2014-10-08

Abstract Nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond provide a spin-based qubit system with long coherence time even at room temperature, making them suitable ambient-condition quantum sensors for quantities including electromagnetic fields, and rotation. The optically addressable level structures of NV spins allow transduction spin information onto light-field intensity. sub-optimal readout fidelity conventional fluorescence measurement remains significant drawback room-temperature ensemble...

10.1515/nanoph-2022-0682 article EN cc-by Nanophotonics 2023-01-09

Abstract The large scale control over thousands of quantum emitters desired by network technology is limited the power consumption and cross-talk inherent in current microwave techniques. Here we propose a repeater architecture based on densely-packed diamond color centers (CCs) programmable electrode array, with gates driven electric or strain fields. This ‘field spin array’ (FPSA) enables high-speed individual CCs low dissipation. Integrated slow-light waveguide for efficient optical...

10.1038/s41467-023-36098-8 article EN cc-by Nature Communications 2023-02-09

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have emerged as a leading quantum sensor platform, combining exceptional sensitivity with nanoscale spatial resolution by optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR). Because fluorescence-based ODMR techniques are limited low photon collection efficiency and modulation contrast, there has been growing interest infrared (IR)-absorption-based readout of the NV singlet state transition. IR can improve contrast efficiency, but it thus far to long-path...

10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01005 article EN ACS Photonics 2021-11-04

We report a design for microscopic lightsail prototype that allows passive stabilization in the radiation-pressure dominated regime. Stable dynamics of our silicon nitride structure are predicted initial tilts up to ±10°.

10.1364/cleo_si.2020.sf3j.6 article EN Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2020-01-01

The decay dynamics of excited carriers in graphene have attracted wide scientific attention, as its gapless Dirac electronic band structure opens up relaxation channels that are not allowed conventional bulk materials. We report bright mid-infrared emission from laser-pumped graphene, originating a previously unobserved channel: hot plasmon emission. observed Fermi-level dependence radiation rules out all possible Planckian light mechanisms. Calculations for our experimental conditions...

10.1117/12.3003751 article EN 2024-03-08

We introduce an electric-field programmable spin array (FPSA) for scalable quantum repeaters. analyze the FPSA scheme arrays of nitrogen vacancy color centers in a slow-light diamond waveguide.

10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.ff3k.4 article EN Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2022-01-01

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers in diamond have emerged as a leading quantum sensor platform, combining exceptional sensitivity with nanoscale spatial resolution by optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR). Because fluorescence-based ODMR techniques are limited low photon collection efficiency and modulation contrast, there has been growing interest infrared (IR)-absorption-based readout of the NV singlet state transition. IR can improve contrast efficiency, but it thus far to...

10.48550/arxiv.2011.04885 preprint EN cc-by arXiv (Cornell University) 2020-01-01

In this presentation, it will be shown that the plasmonic absorption of a graphene sheet can enhanced and perturbed in controllable ways by controlling thickness permittivity supporting substrate. We show results recent experiments where 25% is achieved modes carefully selecting properties an underlying silicon nitride also demonstrate how additional pathways created modifying surrounding dielectric environment to have optical resonances couple plasmons.

10.1117/12.2063844 article EN Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE 2014-09-12

Large scale control over thousands of quantum emitters desired by network technology is limited power consumption and cross-talk inherent in current microwave techniques. Here we propose a repeater architecture based on densely-packed diamond color centers (CCs) programmable electrode array. This 'electric-field spin array' (eFPSA) enables high-speed individual CCs with low dissipation. Integrated slow-light waveguide for efficient optical coupling, the eFPSA serves as interface...

10.48550/arxiv.2204.07051 preprint EN other-oa arXiv (Cornell University) 2022-01-01

We propose a resonant diamond plasmonic metasurface coupled with nitrogen-vacancy ensembles as quantum imaging surface and report sensitivity below 1 nT/Hz 1/2 per µm 2 of sensing area.

10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.fm4j.1 article EN Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2021-01-01
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