Lab Facilities

Computational Modelling Lab

  • Dedicated high-performance computer workstations with multiple displays for each student and postdocs
  • A dedicated separate area for data analysis, HD visualization, and collaborations
  • Display areas will include dual-interactive HD MONITORS and porcelain white boards
  • Best-in-class Espresso machine!

Shastri Lab

  • Probe stations to test large-scale photonic integrated circuits
  • High-speed test and measurement equipment for optical and electrical characterization
  • Cryogenic photonics platform for large-scale photonic integrated circuits 
  • Packaging and co-integration facilities for photonic-electronic hybrid integration

Ultrafast Laser Lab

  • Reconfigurable experimental stations adaptable to exploring a wide variety of research questions.
  • State of the art ultrafast lasers (pulses shorter than 100 fs) and tunable from deep blue to infrared, and a repetition rates up to 76 MHz.
  • Detectors sensitive enough to measure a single photons.
  • Closed-loop cryogenic vacuum systems capable of taking samples down to temperatures approaching absolute zero. 
  • Stable coupled optical tables floating on air for students to build prototypes and experimental apparatus of their own design.

Quantum Nanophotonics Lab

  • Cryogenic quantum optics
  • spectroscopy
  • single-photon measurements