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  • 2019 - OSA Fellows Richard Mirin National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States For outstanding contributions to semiconductor quantum dot devices and quantum optics

Overview

Richard P. Mirin is affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with focused contributions in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Artificial Intelligence; Biomedical Engineering; and Instrumentation.

The main topics covered in their work include Photonic and Optical Devices, Quantum Information and Cryptography, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies, and Quantum Mechanics and Applications.

They have contributed frequently to several scientific venues including arXiv (Cornell University), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optica, Applied Physics Letters, and Physical Review Applied.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Sae Woo Nam, Kevin L. Silverman, Poolad Imany, Ryan A. DeCrescent, and Varun B. Verma.

Representative recent publications by Richard P. Mirin include:

  • Demonstration of sub-3 ps temporal resolution with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector, 2020, Nature Photonics
  • Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with 98% system detection efficiency at 1550 nm, 2020, Optica
  • Single-photon detection in the mid-infrared up to 10 μm wavelength using tungsten silicide superconducting nanowire detectors, 2021, APL Photonics
  • Device-independent randomness expansion with entangled photons, 2021, Nature Physics
  • State Readout of a Trapped Ion Qubit Using a Trap-Integrated Superconducting Photon Detector, 2021, Physical Review Letters

Richard P. Mirin has been recognized as an OSA Fellow in 2019 for contributions related to semiconductor quantum dot devices and quantum optics.

Best Publications

  • Detecting single infrared photons with 93% system efficiency

    F. Marsili;V. B. Verma;J. A. Stern;S. Harrington

  • Observing the average trajectories of single photons in a two-slit interferometer

    Sacha Kocsis;Boris Braverman;Sylvain Ravets;Martin J. Stevens

  • Demonstration of sub-3 ps temporal resolution with a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

    Boris Korzh;Qing-Yuan Zhao;Jason P. Allmaras;Simone Frasca

  • Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors with 98% system detection efficiency at 1550 nm

    Dileep V. Reddy;Robert R. Nerem;Sae Woo Nam;Richard P. Mirin

  • 1.3 μm photoluminescence from InGaAs quantum dots on GaAs

    R. P. Mirin;J. P. Ibbetson;K. Nishi;A. C. Gossard

  • Generation of optical coherent-state superpositions by number-resolved photon subtraction from the squeezed vacuum

    Thomas Gerrits;Scott Glancy;Tracy S. Clement;Brice Calkins

  • Heterogeneous integration for on-chip quantum photonic circuits with single quantum dot devices

    Marcelo Davanco;Jin Liu;Jin Liu;Jin Liu;Luca Sapienza;Luca Sapienza;Chen-Zhao Zhang

  • Photon-efficient quantum key distribution using time–energy entanglement with high-dimensional encoding

    Tian Zhong;Hongchao Zhou;Robert D Horansky;Catherine Lee

  • Room temperature lasing from InGaAs quantum dots

    R. Mirin;A. Gossard;J. Bowers

  • Challenging local realism with human choices

    C. Abellán;A. Acín;A. Alarcón;O. Alibart

  • Room-temperature continuous-wave operation of 1.54-μm vertical-cavity lasers

    D.I. Babic;K. Streubel;R.P. Mirin;N.M. Margalit

  • Single photon source characterization with a superconducting single photon detector

    Robert H. Hadfield;Martin J. Stevens;Steven S. Gruber;Aaron J. Miller

  • Quantum teleportation over 100 km of fiber using highly efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

    Hiroki Takesue;Shellee D. Dyer;Martin J. Stevens;Varun Verma

  • Superconducting Optoelectronic Circuits for Neuromorphic Computing

    Jeffrey M. Shainline;Sonia M. Buckley;Richard P. Mirin;Sae Woo Nam

  • Microsecond Valley Lifetime of Defect-Bound Excitons in Monolayer WSe_{2}

    Galan Moody;Kha Tran;Xiaobo Lu;Travis Autry

  • A heterogeneous III-V/silicon integration platform for on-chip quantum photonic circuits with single quantum dot devices

    Marcelo Davanco;Jin Liu;Luca Sapienza;Chen-Zhao Zhang

  • Direct generation of three-photon polarization entanglement

    Deny R. Hamel;Deny R. Hamel;Lynden K. Shalm;Lynden K. Shalm;Hannes Hübel;Aaron J. Miller;Aaron J. Miller

  • High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated from MoSi thin-films

    Varun B. Verma;Boris Korzh;Felix Bussieres;Robert D. Horansky

  • Low threshold, wafer fused long wavelength vertical cavity lasers

    J. J. Dudley;D. I. Babić;R. Mirin;L. Yang

  • Travelling-wave photodetectors with 172-GHz bandwidth and 76-GHz bandwidth-efficiency product

    K.S. Giboney;R.L. Nagarajan;T.E. Reynolds;S.T. Allen

  • Two-Quantum Many-Body Coherences in Two-Dimensional Fourier-Transform Spectra of Exciton Resonances in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

    Denis Karaiskaj;Alan D. Bristow;Lijun Yang;Xingcan Dai

  • A strong loophole-free test of local realism

    Lynden K. Shalm;Evan Meyer-Scott;Bradley G. Christensen;Peter Bierhorst

  • Many-body Interactions in Semiconductors Probed by Optical Two-dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy

    T. Zhang;X. Li;S. T. Cundiff;R. P. Mirin

  • Demonstrating sub-3 ps temporal resolution in a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

    B. A. Korzh;Q-Y. Zhao;S. Frasca;J. P. Allmaras

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara
Francesco Marsili
Francesco Marsili Facebook (United States)
Evelyn L. Hu
Evelyn L. Hu Harvard University
Robert H. Hadfield
Robert H. Hadfield University of Glasgow
Arthur C. Gossard
Arthur C. Gossard University of California, Santa Barbara
Miloš A. Popović
Miloš A. Popović Boston University
Necmi Biyikli
Necmi Biyikli University of Connecticut

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