Resources

Equipment

• Light Conversion PHAROS

Wavelength: 1030 nm

Pulse energy: up to 2 mJ at 10 kHz

Repetition rate: up to 1 MHz

Pulse duration: 190 fs-10 ps (tunable)

• Light Conversion ORPHEUS

Wavelengths: 640 nm-2600 nm (tunable)

Pulse energy: up to 6 μJ/pulse

Repetition rate: switchable between 10 kHz and 20 kHz

Pulse duration: 120-250 fs

• Montana Instruments CryoAdvance

Base temperature: 3.2-350 K

Nanopositioners: xyz

Sample mount: reflective geometry, 16-pin DIP

Windows: transmissive at VIS/NIR & THz

• RIGI S2x THz camera

• Glaz LineScan-I-Gen2

• SRS Lock-In Amplifier

Shared facilities and available equipment

• Quantum Glovebox Environment (Q-GLOBE) Clusters

• Electron-beam lithography facility (planned)

• Cryogenic spin-, time-, and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)

• Near-field scanning diamond-NV magnetometer

• Low-temperature Raman and photoluminescence microscopy

• Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) & physical vapor deposition (PVD)

• Aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope (TEM)

• Focused ion beam (FIB) & scanning electron microscope (SEM)

• In-house cryogen supply

Manufacturers

• Thorlabs

• Newport

• Edmund Optics

• Eksma Optics

• Coherent transmission gratings

• Semrock optical filters

• Oxide Corporation

• Light Conversion

• Coherent

• mks Spectra-Physics

• McMaster-Carr

• Grainger

• CDW

• DigiKey

Quantum Mechanics

• D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

• J. J. Sakurai and J. Napolitano, Modern Quantum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Quantum Optics

• C. C. Gerry and P. L. Knight, Introductory Quantum Optics (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

• M. O. Scully and M. S. Zubairy, Quantum Optics (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

• R. Loudon, The Quantum Theory of Light (Oxford University Press, 2000)

• M. Fox, Quantum Optics: An Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2006)

• D. F. Walls and G. J. Milburn, Quantum Optics (Springer, 2025)

Electromagnetism and Optics

• B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley, 2020)

• D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

• M. Fox, Optical Properties of Solids (Oxford University Press, 2010)

• J. D. Joannopoulos, S. G. Johnson, J. N. Winn, and R. D. Meade, Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light (Princeton University Press, 2008)

Nonlinear Optics, Ultrafast Optics, THz Spectroscopy

• R. W. Boyd, Nonlinear Optics (Academic Press, 2020)

• J.-C. Diels and W. Rudolph, Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena (Academic Press, 2006)

• P. Hamm and M. Zanni, Concepts and Methods of 2D Infrared Spectroscopy (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

• Y.-S. Lee, Principles of Terahertz Science and Technology (Springer, 2008)

• S. L. Dexheimer, Terahertz Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications (CRC Press, 2008)

Solid State Physics

• C. Kittel, Introduction to Solid State Physics (Wiley, 2004)

• N. W. Ashcroft and N. D. Mermin, Solid State Physics (Cengage, 1976)

• E. Kaxiras and J. D. Joannopoulos, Quantum Theory of Materials (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

• D. W. Snoke, Solid State Physics: Essential Concepts (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

• S. M. Girvin and K. Yang, Modern Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

• M. L. Cohen and S. G. Louie, Fundamentals of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

• H. Bruus and K. Flensberg, Many-Body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics (Oxford University Press, 2004)

• A. Auerbach, Interacting Electrons and Quantum Magnetism (Springer, 1994)

• Northeastern Quantum Matter Seminars

• Northeastern Quantum Materials and Sensing Institute (QMSI) Special Seminars

• MIT Physics Colloquium Series

• MIT Chez Pierre (Condensed Matter Physics) Seminar Series

• MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA)

• MIT-CQE iQuISE Seminar Series

• Harvard Physics Seminars

• Boston Area Physics Calendar

• Stanford Applied Physics/Physics Colloquium (YouTube)

• Simons Institute Public Lectures