Hank (Henry Hammer) receives a Charles A. Wert Summer Research Grant and will be setting up a NIR-SWIR (C+L telecom bands) wavefront shaping setup for studying multimode fibers during June-July 2021.

Crystals contain a forbidden gap, where photons of certain frequency can penetrate only a limited distance. We overcome this limitation through by spatially shaping waves to access the deep dark-regions of a tiny silicon photonic crystal. Other wave forms—including phonons, electrons, and spins—could be tuned using the new method opening a diverse array of applications in miniature light sources and on-chip lasers, qubits, and information processing via photons and phonons.