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Dirk Englund

Dirk Englund

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
101
Citations
43570
World Ranking
171
National Ranking
82

Physics

D-Index
105
Citations
47456
World Ranking
1367
National Ranking
714

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Dirk Englund is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Their research focuses on several interconnected fields of study, including engineering, physics and astronomy, and computer science, with substantial contributions to subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, artificial intelligence, materials chemistry, and biomedical engineering.

Their work covers a broad range of topics, particularly in photonic and optical devices, neural networks and reservoir computing, quantum information and cryptography, optical network technologies, diamond and carbon-based materials research, advanced fiber laser technologies, and quantum optics and atomic interactions.

Dirk Englund has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Nature Communications
  • Physical Review Applied
  • npj Quantum Information

Some notable recent papers include:

  • Programmable photonic circuits, 2020, published in Nature
  • Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics, 2020, published in Nature
  • The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies, 2021, published in Nature Reviews Physics
  • Hybrid integration methods for on-chip quantum photonics, 2020, published in Optica
  • Transform-Limited Photons From a Coherent Tin-Vacancy Spin in Diamond, 2020, published in Physical Review Letters

Dirk Englund frequently collaborates with a range of coauthors, including Matthew E. Trusheim, Ian Christen, Ryan Hamerly, Kevin C. Chen, and Matt Eichenfield. These collaborations reflect a network of interdisciplinary research ties.

In recognition of their work, Dirk Englund was named Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Deep learning with coherent nanophotonic circuits

    Yichen Shen;Nicholas C. Harris;Scott Skirlo;Dirk Englund

  • Solid-state single-photon emitters

    Igor Aharonovich;Dirk Englund;Milos Toth

  • Advances in quantum cryptography

    S. Pirandola;U. L. Andersen;L. Banchi;M. Berta

  • Advances in Quantum Cryptography

    S. Pirandola;U. L. Andersen;L. Banchi;M. Berta

  • Chip-integrated ultrafast graphene photodetector with high responsivity

    Xuetao Gan;Ren-Jye Shiue;Yuanda Gao;Inanc Meric

  • Controlling the spontaneous emission rate of single quantum dots in a two-dimensional photonic crystal.

    Dirk Englund;David Fattal;Edo Waks;Glenn Solomon

  • Programmable photonic circuits.

    Wim Bogaerts;Daniel Pérez;José Capmany;David A. B. Miller

  • Inference in artificial intelligence with deep optics and photonics.

    Gordon Wetzstein;Aydogan Ozcan;Sylvain Gigan;Shanhui Fan

  • Controlling cavity reflectivity with a single quantum dot

    Dirk Englund;Andrei Faraon;Ilya Fushman;Nick Stoltz

  • Material platforms for spin-based photonic quantum technologies

    Mete Atatüre;Dirk Englund;Nick Vamivakas;Sang-Yun Lee

  • Ultrafast photonic crystal nanocavity laser

    Hatice Altug;Dirk Englund;Jelena Vučković

  • Coherent generation of non-classical light on a chip via photon-induced tunnelling and blockade

    Andrei Faraon;Ilya Fushman;Dirk Englund;Nick Stoltz

  • Robust multicolor single photon emission from point defects in hexagonal boron nitride

    Toan Trong Tran;Christopher Elbadawi;Daniel Totonjian;Charlene J Lobo

  • Reliable Exfoliation of Large-Area High-Quality Flakes of Graphene and Other Two-Dimensional Materials

    Yuan Huang;Eli Sutter;Norman N. Shi;Jiabao Zheng

  • Experimental demonstration of memory-enhanced quantum communication.

    Mihir Bhaskar;Ralf Riedinger;Bart Machielse;David Levonian

  • Tunable and high-purity room temperature single-photon emission from atomic defects in hexagonal boron nitride

    Gabriele Grosso;Hyowon Moon;Benjamin Lienhard;Sajid Ali

  • Controlled phase shifts with a single quantum dot.

    Ilya Fushman;Dirk Englund;Andrei Faraon;Nick Stoltz

  • Quantum transport simulations in a programmable nanophotonic processor

    Nicholas C. Harris;Gregory R. Steinbrecher;Mihika Prabhu;Yoav Lahini

  • Quantum networks based on color centers in diamond

    Maximilian Ruf;Noel H. Wan;Hyeongrak Choi;Dirk Englund;Dirk Englund

  • Quantum Computer Systems for Scientific Discovery

    Yuri Alexeev;Dave Bacon;Kenneth R. Brown;Robert Calderbank

  • A MoTe2-based light-emitting diode and photodetector for silicon photonic integrated circuits

    Ya-Qing Bie;Gabriele Grosso;Mikkel Heuck;Marco M. Furchi

  • Deterministic Coupling of a Single Nitrogen Vacancy Center to a Photonic Crystal Cavity

    Dirk Englund;Brendan John Shields;Kelley Rivoire;Fariba Hatami

  • On-chip detection of non-classical light by scalable integration of single-photon detectors

    Faraz Najafi;Jacob Mower;Nicholas Christopher Harris;Francesco Bellei

  • Integrated Source of Spectrally Filtered Correlated Photons for Large-Scale Quantum Photonic Systems

    Nicholas C. Harris;Davide Grassani;Angelica Simbula;Mihir Pant

Frequent Co-Authors

Jelena Vuckovic
Jelena Vuckovic Stanford University
Andrei Faraon
Andrei Faraon California Institute of Technology
James Hone
James Hone Columbia University
Michael Hochberg
Michael Hochberg Luminous Computing
Arka Majumdar
Arka Majumdar University of Washington
Edo Waks
Edo Waks University of Maryland, College Park
Pierre Petroff
Pierre Petroff University of California, Santa Barbara
Hatice Altug
Hatice Altug École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Igor Aharonovich
Igor Aharonovich University of Technology Sydney
Tom Baehr-Jones
Tom Baehr-Jones Luminous Computing

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