Painter, Oskar J.

Committee Member — 127 thesises

• Steger, Scott Tiedeman — A Fundamental Approach to Phase Noise Reduction in Hybrid Si/III-V Lasers (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sonar, Sameer Anil — A High-Efficiency, Low-Noise Platform for Microwave-to-Optical Quantum Transduction (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krause, Alexander Grey — Acceleration Sensing, Feedback Cooling, and Nonlinear Dynamics with Nanoscale Cavity-Optomechanical Devices (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hung, Peter Shek-Ho — Advanced Applications of Nanoelectromechanical Systems (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deceglie, Michael Gardner — Advanced Silicon Solar Cell Device Physics and Design (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Au, John King-Tai — An Ab Initio Approach to the Inverse Problem-Based Design of Photonic Bandgap Devices (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosenberg, Jessie C. — Applications of Micro/Nanoscale Optical Resonators: Plasmonic Photodetectors and Double-Disk Cavity Optomechanics (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Iverson, Joseph Kramer — Aspects of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hood, Jonathan David — Atom-Light Interactions in a Photonic Crystal Waveguide (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Armen, Michael A. — Bifurcations in Single Atom Cavity QED (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meenehan, Sean Michael — Cavity Optomechanics at Millikelvin Temperatures (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ren, Hengjiang — Cavity Optomechanics for Hybrid Quantum Systems (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eichenfield, Matthew S. — Cavity Optomechanics in Photonic and Phononic Crystals: Engineering the Interaction of Light and Sound at the Nanoscale (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilson, Dalziel Joseph — Cavity Optomechanics with High Stress Silicon Nitride Films (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Russell Lowell — Characterization and Control of a Strongly-Coupled Atom-Cavity System (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsang, Mankei — Classical and Quantum Nonlinear Optical Information Processing (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Northup, Tracy Eleanor — Coherent Control in Cavity QED (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fukumori, Rikuto — Collective Interactions in Cavity-Coupled Rare-Earth Ion Ensembles for Quantum Technologies (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burgos, Stanley P. — Coupled Plasmonic Systems and Devices: Applications in Visible Metamaterials, Nanophotonic Circuits, and CMOS Imaging (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chernow, Victoria Fay — Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of 3D Nanolattice Photonic Crystals for Bandgap and Refractive Index Engineering (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Witzens, Jeremy — Dispersion in Photonic Crystals (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Gerald Matthew — Electron Transport in Silicon Nanocrystal Devices: From Memory Applications to Silicon Photonics (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mandayam Doddamane, Prabha — Emerging Paradigms in Quantum Error Correction and Quantum Cryptography (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Chun-Ju — Engineering Quantum Resources for Quantum Networking Using Single Rare-Earth Ions Inside Crystals (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Madjarov, Ivaylo Sashkov — Entangling, Controlling, and Detecting Individual Strontium Atoms in Optical Tweezer Arrays (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Lan — Fabrication and Characterization of Microlasers by the Sol-Gel Method (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Emery, Teresa Holly — Fabrication of Nanowire-based Magnetic Structures for Magnetic Resonance Applications (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Berglund, Andrew John — Feedback Control of Brownian Motion for Single-Particle Fluorescence Spectroscopy (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barclay, Paul Edward — Fiber Coupled Nanophotonic Devices for Nonlinear Optics and Cavity QED (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spillane, Sean Michael — Fiber-Coupled Ultra-High-Q Microresonators for Nonlinear and Quantum Optics (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cohen, Justin Daniel — Fiber-Optic Integration and Efficient Detection Schemes for Optomechanical Resonators (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dionne, Jennifer Anne — Flatland Photonics: Circumventing Diffraction with Planar Plasmonic Architectures (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maune, Brett Michael — Fluidic and Polymeric Integration and Functionalization of Optical Microresonators (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Dongwan — Frequency Noise Control of Heterogeneous Si/III-V Lasers (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Boechler, Nicholas Sebastian — Granular Crystals: Controlling Mechanical Energy with Nonlinearity and Discreteness (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Lue Leo — Greater Than One Billion Optical Q Factor for On-Chip Microresonators (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maier, Stefan Alexander — Guiding of Electromagnetic Energy in Subwavelength Periodic Metal Structures (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bauser, Haley Coddington — High Contrast Nanophotonics for Scalable Photovoltaics and Solar Fuels (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Santis, Christos Theodoros — High-Coherence Hybrid Si/III-V Semiconductor Lasers (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Borselli, Matthew Gregory — High-Q Microresonators as Lasing Elements for Silicon Photonics (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Panotopoulos, Georgios — Holographic Information Systems (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Briggs, Ryan Morrow — Hybrid Silicon Nanophotonic Devices: Enhancing Light Emission, Modulation, and Confinement (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hsieh, Chia-Lung — Imaging with Second-Harmonic Generation Nanoparticles (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Green, William M. J. — InGaAsP-InP Semiconductor Microcavity Geometries for Annular Bragg Reflection, Optical Switching, and Sensing (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hashemi, Hossein — Integrated Concurrent Multi-Band Radios and Multiple-Antenna Systems (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oh, Dong Yoon — Integrated Nonlinear Photonic Devices (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luo, Jie — Integrating Quantum Optical and Superconducting Circuits with Quantum Acoustics for Scalable Quantum Network and Computation (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Yan — Integration of Dye Lasers and Microfluidics for Biochemical Analysis (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yuksel, Mert — Interactions of Intrinsic Quantum Defects with a Nanoelectromechanical System (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bozkurt, Alkım Berke — Interfacing Long-Lived Mechanical Oscillators and Superconducting Quantum Circuits (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiappina, Piero — Interfacing Superconducting Qubits with Light (2027, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Perahia, Raviv — Investigation and Application of Microscale Semiconductor Lasers and Cavities (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Preisler, Edward James — Investigation of Novel Semiconductor Heterostructure Systems: I. Cerium Oxide/Silicon Heterostructures. II. 6.1 Å Semiconductor-Based Avalanche Photodiodes (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chan, Jasper — Laser Cooling of an Optomechanical Crystal Resonator to Its Quantum Ground State of Motion (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pracko, Steven Edmund — Laser Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Spheromak Plasmas (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pattison, Christopher Anand — Low-Overhead Quantum Fault Tolerance (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lev, Benjamin Leonard — Magnetic Microtraps for Cavity QED, Bose-Einstein Condensates, and Atom Optics (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lei, Mi — Many-Body Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Spin Dynamics with an Ensemble of Rare-Earth Ions (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hansen, Carl Lars Genghis — Microfluidic Technologies for Structural Biology (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lai, Yu-Hung — Microresonator Brillouin Laser Gyroscope (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rochman, Jake Herschel Lebi — Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Using Rare-Earth Ions (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Jiao — Mössbauer Diffractometry: Principles, Practice, and an Application to a Study of Chemical Order in ⁵⁷Fe₃Al (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yu, Su-Peng — Nano-Photonic Platform for Atom-Light Interaction (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Norte, Richard Alexander — Nanofabrication for On-Chip Optical Levitation, Atom-Trapping, and Superconducting Quantum Circuits (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Callahan, Dennis Michael — Nanophotonic Light Trapping In Thin Solar Cells (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• De Rose, Lucía Belén — Nanoscale Field Emission Devices for High-Temperature and High-Frequency Operation (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muniz Silva, Juan Andres — Nanoscopic Atomic Lattices with Light-Mediated Interactions (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Husain, Ali — Nanotube and Nanowire Devices (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vilenchik, Yaakov — Narrow-Linewidth Si/III-V Lasers: a Study of Laser Dynamics and Nonlinear Effects (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hill, Jeffrey Thomas — Nonlinear Optics and Wavelength Translation Via Cavity-Optomechanics (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suh, Myoung-Gyun — Nonlinear Optics in Chip-based Microresonators and their Applications (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Jiang — Nonlinear Optics in Planar Silica-on-Silicon Disk Resonators (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Qifan — Nonlinear Physics in Soliton Microcombs (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baehr-Jones, Tom Wetteland — Novel Modulation and Detection Mechanisms in Silicon Nanophotonics (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Chuting — On-Chip Photonic Devices for Coupling to Color Centers in Silicon Carbide (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Michael, Christopher Paul — Optical Material Characterization Using Microdisk Cavities (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bullard, Elizabeth Caryn — Optimization of NEMS for Frequency Shift Sensing Applications (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Zhenyu — Optofluidic Dye Lasers (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blasius, Timothy Dobson — Optomechanical Inertial Sensors and Feedback Cooling (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• MacCabe, Gregory Scott — Phonon Dynamics and Damping in Three-Dimensional Acoustic Bandgap Cavity-Optomechanical Resonators (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Banker, Jash Haren — Photonic and Phononic Band Gap Engineering for Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics and Quantum Transduction (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McClung, Andrew Corby — Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Integration into an Atomic Physics Experiment (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ostby, Eric Paul — Photonic Whispering-Gallery Resonators in New Environments (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yi, Xu — Physics and Applications of Microresonator Solitons and Electro-optic Frequency Combs (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yuan, Zhiquan — Physics and Applications of Optical Nonlinearity in High-Q Microresonators (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sweatlock, Luke A. — Plasmonics: Numerical Methods and Device Applications (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weinstein, Aaron Jacob — Quantum Electromechanics with Two Tone Drive (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mueller, Andrew Sterling — Quantum Measurements with Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wood, Steven Andrew — Quantum Microwave to Optical Transduction with Light-Robust Superconducting Circuits (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kindem, Jonathan Miners — Quantum Nanophotonics with Ytterbium in Yttrium Orthovanadate (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Tony Eilo — Quantum Nonequilibrium Physics with Rydberg Atoms (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Safavi-Naeini, Amir Hossein — Quantum Optomechanics with Silicon Nanostructures (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Craiciu, Ioana — Quantum Storage of Light Using Nanophotonic Resonators Coupled to Erbium Ion Ensembles (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kayes, Brendan Melville — Radial pn Junction, Wire Array Solar Cells (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dalzell, Alexander Moos — Random Quantum Circuits and Their Simulation Complexity: an Analysis with Statistical Mechanics (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hopkins, Asa Sies — Reduced Order Models for Open Quantum Systems (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mauser, Kelly Ann Weekley — Resonant Thermoelectric Nanophotonics: Applications in Spectral and Thermal Sensing (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xie, Tian — Scalable On-Chip Platforms for Quantum Microwave-Optical Interface with Solid-State Ensembles (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Srinivasan, Kartik — Semiconductor Optical Microcavities for Chip-Based Cavity QED (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Thomas James — Silicon Microdisk Resonators for Nonlinear Optics and Dynamics (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Feng, Tao — Silicon Nanocrystal Charging Dynamics and Memory Device Applications (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walters, Robert Joseph — Silicon Nanocrystals for Silicon Photonics (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ruskuc, Andrei — Single Rare-Earth Ions in Solid-State Hosts: A Platform for Quantum Networks (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kartalov, Emil Paskalev — Single-Molecule Detection and DNA Sequencing-by-Synthesis (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goban, Akihisa — Strong Atom-Light Interactions Along Nanostructures: Transition from Free-space to Nanophotonic Interfaces (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, John Jian-Zhong — Study of Liquid Metals by Electrostatic Levitation (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Xueyue — Superconducting Circuit Architectures Based on Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kalaee, Mahmoud — Superconducting Electromechanical and Nanophotonic Devices for Quantum Measurement and Conversion (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Neal, Terrell Demetris — Surface Plasmon Enhanced Light Emission from Organic Light Emitters (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fang, Michael Tianyu — Suspended Trace Air-Gap Resonators for Low Loss Superconducting Circuits (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Gihwan — Tailoring Tunable Interactions in Superconducting Circuits Using Many to No Modes (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Helou, Bassam Mohamad — Testing Alternative Theories of Quantum Mechanics with Optomechanics, and Effective Modes for Gaussian Linear Optomechanics (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Harfouche, Mark — The Coherence Collapse Regime of High-Coherence Si/III-V Lasers and the Use of Swept Frequency Semiconductor Lasers for Full Field 3D Imaging (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosenberg, Robert Alan — The Impact of Surface Chemistry on Photoelectrochemical Device Characteristics (2011, Senior thesis (Major))
• Iyer, Shankar — The Interplay of Localization and Interactions in Quantum Many-Body Systems (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maguire, Shaun Cohn — The Spectral Theory of Multiboundary Wormholes (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chou, Chin-wen — Towards a Quantum Network with Atomic Ensembles (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hatipoğlu, Utku — Tuning Hybrid Optomechanics for Remote Entanglement (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Armani, Deniz Karapetian — Ultra-High-Q Planar Microcavities and Applications (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Min, Bumki — Ultrahigh–Q Microtoroid On-Chip Resonators for Low Threshold Microlasers (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Tong — Ultralow-Loss Silica Resonators and Waveguides on a Silicon Chip (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liger, Matthieu — Uncooled Carbon Microbolometer Imager (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Graeme Stewart Baird — Upper and Lower Bounds on Quantum Codes (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Eun Jong — Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics in Superconducting Circuits (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ferreira, Vinicius Thaddeu dos Santos — Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics with Superconducting Slow-Light Waveguide Circuits (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Jingqing — Wavelength-Scale Confinement of Light and Its Applications in On-Chip Photonic Devices (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Turner-Evans, Daniel B. — Wire Array Photovoltaics (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))