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Marko Loncar

Faculty
  • Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering
Marko Loncar

Contact Information

Office: Maxwell Dworkin Building 127
Email: loncar [ AT ] seas [ DOT ] harvard [ DOT ] edu
Office Phone: (617) 495-5798
Office Fax: (617) 495-2875
Lab Name: Laboratory for Nanoscale Optics
Lab Room: McKay Laboratory 219

Websites

Education

  1. Diploma in Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro)
  2. Ph.D. and M.S., Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Research Interests

    • Materials & Devices
    • Electromagnetics and Nanoelectronics
    • Nanophotonics
    • Quantum Devices

Primary Teaching Area

Electrical Engineering

Secondary Teaching Area

Applied Physics

Profile

Marko Lončar's research focuses on phenomena resulting from the interaction of light and matter on a nano-scale level. These phenomena include efficient light confinement and emission within photonic crystals, light generation in engineered semiconductors (e.g. nanowires, quantum dots, quantum cascade lasers), manipulation of nano-scale objects using guided waves. He is interested in development of functional nano-photonic devices, and their integration into systems, that can be used for optical communication and optical signal processiong, life sciences and quantum optics. Particular areas of interest include:

  • Periodic optical structures: e.g. photonic crystal devices, metamaterials and metalo-dielectric structures in general
  • Classical and and non-classical light sources based on nanostructures
  • Plasmonics
  • Nanofabrication techniques
  • Nanoscale electro-mechanical (NEMS) and opto-mechanical (NOMS) devices and systems
  • Application of nanophotonics in life sciences (e.g. bio-chemical sensors)
  • Mid-infrared and far-infrared devices and systems, including quantum cascade lasers

Positions & Employment

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

  • July 2006-Present: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering 
  • October 2003-June 2006: Postdoctoral Scholar in Applied Physics

Other Experience

  • Member, Optical Society of America
  • Member, IEEE
  • Member, SPIE
  • Member, Materials Research Society
  • Conference Chair: SPIE Photonics West, 2010
  • Program Committees: SPIE Optics East (2004‐2006), SPIE Photonics West (2009), OSA International Conference on
    Nanophotonics (2009‐), ISCS/IPRM (2010), IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting (2009)
  • Participant in NSF panels and workshops
  • Referee for Nature Photonics, Physical Review Letters, Nanoletters, Optics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Journal
    of Applied Physics, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Optics Express

Honors

  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2010
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2009
  • Outstanding Performer Award, DARPA University Optocenters, 2003
  • Graduate Student Silver Award, Material Research Society, 2002
  • C. Powel Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 1997-1998
  • Valedictorian Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, 1997
  • Fellowship from the Foundation for Development of Science and Art, Ministry of Science and Technology, Republic of Serbia, 1990-1997

Selected Publications

  1. T.M. Babinec, B.M. Hausmann, M. Khan, Y. Zhang, J. Maze, P.R. Hemmer, M. Lončar, "A bright single photon
    source based on a diamond nanowire," Nature Nanotechnology (cover page).
  2. B.M. Hausmann, M. Khan, T.M. Babinec, Y. Zhang, K. Martinick, M.W. McCutcheon, P.R. Hemmer, M. Lončar,
    "Fabrication of diamond nanowires for quantum information processing applications," Diamond and Related
    Materials.
  3. M. W. McCutcheon, D. E. Chang, Y. Zhang, M.D. Lukin, and M. Lončar, "Broad‐band spectral control of single
    photon sources using a nonlinear photonic crystal cavity," Optics Express, 17, 22689 (2009).
  4. D. Woolf, M. Lončar, and F. Capasso "The forces from coupled surface plasmon polaritons in planar
    waveguides," Optics Express, 17, 19996 (2009).
  5. D.J. Lipomi, F. Ilievski, B.J. Wiley, P.B. Deotare, M. Lončar, and G.M. Whitesides "Integrated Fabrication and
    Magnetic Positioning of Metallic and Polymeric Nanowires Embedded in Thin Epoxy Slabs," ACS Nano, 3, 3315
    (2009).
  6. I.B. Burgess*, Y. Zhang*, M. W. McCutcheon*, A.W. Rodriguez, J. Bravo‐Abad, S. G. Johnson, and M. Lončar
    "Design of an efficient terahertz generation in triply resonant nonlinear photonic crystal microcavities," Optics
    Express, 17, 20099 (2009).
  7. Y. Zhang, M.W. McCutcheon, I.B. Burgess, and M. Lončar, "Ultra‐high‐Q TE/TM dual‐polarized photonic crystal
    nanocavities," Optics Letters, 34, 2694 (2009).
  8. Q. Quan, I. Bulu, and M. Lončar, "Broadband waveguide QED system on a chip," Physical Review A, 80,
    011810(R) (2009).
  9. P. B. Deotare, M. W. McCutcheon, I. W. Frank, M. Khan, and M. Lončar, "Coupled photonic crystal nanobeam
    cavities," Applied Physics Letters, 95, 031102 (2009).
  10. I.B. Burgess, A.W. Rodriguez, M. W. McCutcheon, J. Bravo‐Abad, Y. Zhang, S. G. Johnson, and M. Lončar,
    "Difference‐frequency generation with quantum‐limited efficiency in triply‐resonant nonlinear cavities," Optics
    Express, 17, 9241 (2009).

Patents Awarded

  1. US patent No. 6,466,709: “Photonic crystal microcavities for strong coupling between an atom and the cavity field
    and method of fabricating the same”, A. Scherer, J. Vučković, M. Lončar and H. Mabuchi.
  2. US patent No. 6,468,823: “Fabrication of optical devices based on two dimensional photonic crystal structures and
    apparatus made therby”, A. Scherer, M. Lončar, T. Doll.
  3. US patent No. 6,534,798: “Surface plasmon enhanced LED and the method of operation of the same”, A. Scherer, J. Vučković and M. Lončar.
  4. US patent No. 6,944,384: “Methods for controlling positions of guided modes of the photonic crystal waveguides”,
    M. Lončar, J. Vučković and A. Scherer.
  5. US patent No. 7,079,240: “Photonic Crystal Laser Sources for Chemical Detection”, M. Lončar and A. Scherer.

Faculty CV

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