People

Sean Spillane

E-mail: sean.spillane@hp.com

Location:
Quantum Structures Research Initiative Department
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Palo Alto, California

Biography:
Sean received his Ph.D. from Caltech in 2004, where he investigated the properties of ultra-high-Q optical microcavities for high-performance nonlinear optic devices and cavity QED.

He joined the Quantum Science Research group in August 2004, where he is currently researching nanoscale classical and quantum optics. Additionally, his interests involve all-optical information processing (both classical and quantum), nonlinear optics in microphotonic structures, nanophotonic chip-to-chip interconnects, and the integration of photonics with the molecular electronics and nanowire expertise of QSR.

Education:
B.S., Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 1998
Ph.D., Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 2004

Publications:

1. T. Carmon, T. J. Kippenberg, L. Yang, H. Rokhsari, S. M. Spillane, K. J. Vahala, "Feedback control of ultra-high-Q microcavities: application to micro-Raman and micro-parametric oscillators," Optics Express 13 (9), 3558-3566, 2005.
    
2. L. Yang, T. Carmon, B. K. Min, S. M. Spillane, K. J. Vahala, "Erbium-doped and Raman microlasers on a silicon chip fabricated by the sol-gel process," Applied Physics Letters 86, 091114, 2005.
    
3. S. M. Spillane, T. J. Kippenberg, K. J. Vahala, K. W. Goh, E. Wilcut, H. J. Kimble, "Ultra-high-Q toroidal microcavities for cavity quantum electrodynamics," Physical Review A 71 (1), 013817, 2005.
    
4. T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, B. K. Min, K. J. Vahala, "Theoretical and experimental study of stimulated and cascaded Raman scattering in ultrahigh-Q optical microcavities," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 10 (5), 1219-1228, 2004.
    
5. T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, K. J. Vahala, "Demonstration of ultra-high-Q small mode volume toroid microcavities on a chip," Applied Physics Letters 85 (25), 6113-6115, 2004.
    
6. H. Rokhsari, S. M. Spillane, K. J. Vahala, "Loss characterization in microcavities using the thermal bistability effect," Applied Physics Letters 85 (15), 3029-3031, 2004.
    
7. T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, K. J. Vahala, "Kerr-nonlinearity optical parametric oscillation in an ultrahigh-Q toroid microcavity," Physical Review Letters 93 (8), 083904, 2004.
    
8. T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, D. K. Armani, K. J. Vahala, "Ultralow-threshold microcavity Raman laser on a microelectronic chip," Optics Letters 29 (11), 1224-1227, 2004.
    
9. T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, D. K. Armani, K. J. Vahala, "Fabrication and coupling to planar high-Q silica disk microcavities," Applied Physics Letters 83 (4), 797-799, 2003.
    
10. S. M. Spillane, T. J. Kippenberg, O. J. Painter, K. J. Vahala, "Ideality in a fiber-taper-coupled microresonator system for application to cavity quantum electrodynamics," Physical Review Letters 91 (4), 043902, 2003.
     
11. D. K. Armani, T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, K. J. Vahala, "Ultra-high-Q toroid microcavity on a chip," Nature 421, 925-929, 2003.
     
12. T. J. Kippenberg, S. M. Spillane, K. J. Vahala, "Modal coupling in traveling-wave resonators," Optics Letters 27 (19), 1669-1672, 2002.
     
13. S. M. Spillane, T. J. Kippenberg, K. J. Vahala, "Ultralow-threshold Raman laser using a spherical dielectric microcavity," Nature 415, 621-623, 2002.