Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering

Photonics

The Photonics Group is part of the Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Aalto University. The group studies electrical and optical properties of various nanomaterials for photonic and optoelectronic applications. The group is located in the Micronova Research Center.

(Figure from Yang, H., Khayrudinov, V., Dhaka, V., Jiang, H., Autere, A., Jussila, H., ... Sun, Z. (2018). Nanowire network–based multifunctional all-optical logic gates. Science Advances, 4(7), [eaar7954]. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar7954)

We are hiring

Postdoctoral Researchers / Research Fellows for the Photonics and Photovoltaics Research and Innovation Flagship at Aalto University
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PhD Students in Condensed Matter Physics and Quantum Photonics
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Postdoc in Experimental Quantum Photonics
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Research database

Contact:
Professor Zhipei Sun
Email: zhipei.sun at aalto.fi
Tel.: +358 50 430 2820

Postal address:
Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering
Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering
P.O. Box 13500, 00076 Aalto, Finland

Visiting address:
Micronova, 4th floor, room 4185
Tietotie 3, 02150 Espoo

Published: 8.6.2018
Updated: 11.1.2021

Photonics

We are hiring

Group members

John-Olof Rönn

Mikko Partanen

Zhipei Sun

Yunyun Dai

Mikko Turunen

Yadong Wang

Xueyin Bai

Susobhan Das

Luojun Du

Mingde Du

Md Uddin

Xiaoqi Cui

Henry Fernandez

Vincent Pelgrin

Yuchen Wang

Suvi-Tuuli Akkanen

Ahmadi Mohsen

Henri Albert Kaaripuro

Hoon Hahn Yoon

Latest publications

1.56 µm and 1.93 µm synchronized mode-locked fiber laser with graphene saturable absorber

Stable dual-wavelength laser incorporating polarization-maintaining erbium-doped fiber

L-band femtosecond fiber laser based on a reduced graphene oxide polymer composite saturable absorber

Investigation of tungsten trioxide as a saturable absorber for mode-locked generation

Electrical Control of Interband Resonant Nonlinear Optics in Monolayer MoS₂

2D materials as a new platform for photonic applications

Dual-gated mono-bilayer graphene junction

Twisting for Tunable Nonlinear Optics

Fabrication-friendly polarization-sensitive plasmonic grating for optimal surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

Does carrier velocity saturation help to enhance f(max) in graphene field-effect transistors?