Contact Information:
eden.figueroa@stonybrook.edu
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800
Curriculum Vitae:
- Starting in 2013: Group leader of the Quantum Information Technology group at the University of Stony Brook
- Sept. 2008 – Dec. 2012: Postdoc in the Quantum Dynamics Group of Prof. G. Rempe at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik in Garching, Germany
- Sep. 2004 – Aug. 2008: PhD student with Prof. A. I. Lvovsky in the Institute for Quantum Information Science at the University of Calgary, Canada
- Oct. 2003 – Aug. 2004: PhD Student in the Quantum Technology Group of Prof. A. I. Lvovsky at the University of Konstanz, Germany
- Jan. 2003 – Jun. 2003: Lecturer in the Physics Department at Monterrey Tech and Guest Researcher at the Photonics and Mathematical Optics Group , Mexico
- Aug. 2000 – Dec. 2002: MSc Optical Engineering at Monterrey Tech, Mexico
- Jul. 2001 – Sept. 2001: Summer Student at DESY, Hamburg (DE), Germany
- Aug. 1996 – Jul. 2000: BSc Engineering Physics at Monterrey Tech, Mexico
Publications:
An elementary quantum network of single atoms in optical cavities
S. Ritter, C. Nölleke, C. Hahn, A. Reiserer, A. Neuzner, M. Uphoff, M. Mücke, E. Figueroa, J. Bochmann, G. Rempe Nature 484, 195 (2012) ( arXiv:1202.5955 [quant-ph] )
A Single-Atom Quantum Memory
H.P. Specht, C. Nölleke, A. Reiserer, M. Uphoff, E. Figueroa, S. Ritter, G. Rempe Nature 473, 190 (2011) ( arXiv:1103.1528 [quant-ph] )
Electromagnetically induced transparency with single atoms in a cavity
M. Mücke, E. Figueroa, J. Bochmann, C. Hahn, K. Murr, S. Ritter, C.J. Villas-Boas, G. Rempe Nature 465, 755-758 (2010)
Phase shaping of single-photon wave packets
H.P. Specht, J. Bochmann, M. Mücke, B. Weber, E. Figueroa, D.L. Moehring, G. Rempe Nature Photonics 3, 469 (2009) ( arXiv:0905.4583 [quant-ph] ) News and Views article by Sean Barrett on this publication on p. 430 of the same issue
Propagation of squeezed vacuum under electromagnetically induced transparency
E. Figueroa, M. Lobino, D. Korystov, J. Appel and A. I. Lvovsky: New Journal of Physics 11,013044 (2009).
Memory for Light as a Quantum Process
M. Lobino, C. Kupchak, E. Figueroa and A. I. Lvovsky: Physics Review Letters 102, 203601 (2009).
Complete Characterization of Quantum-Optical Processes
M. Lobino, D. Korystov, C. Kupchak, E. Figueroa, B. C. Sanders and A. I. Lvovsky: Science 322, 563 (2008).
Quantum Memory for squeezed light
J. Appel*, E. Figueroa*, D. Korystov, M. Lobino and A. I. Lvovsky: Physics Review Letters 100, 093602 (2008). *Both authors contributed equally to the work.
Adiabatic frequency conversion of quantum optical information in atomic vapor
F. Vewinger, J. Appel, E. Figueroa and A. I. Lvovsky: Optics Letters 32, 2771 (2007).
Frequency conversion and routing of quantum information in atomic media
F. Vewinger, J. Appel, E. Figueroa and A. I. Lvovsky,: Proceedings of SPIE 6422, 64221U (2007).
Electronic Noise in Optical Homodyne Tomography
J. Appel, D. Hoffman, E. Figueroa, A. I. Lvovsky: Physical Review A 75, 035802 (2007).
Characterization of atomic coherence decay for storage of light experiments
E. Figueroa, F. Vewinger, J. Appel, G. Guenter and A. I. Lvovsky: Proceedings of SPIE 6422, 64221T (2007).
On decoherence of electromagnetically induced transparency
E. Figueroa, F. Vewinger, J. Appel and A. I. Lvovsky: Optics Letters 31, 2625 (2006).
Characterization of atomic decoherence decay for the storage of light
E. Figueroa, F. Vewinger, J. Appel, G. Guenter and A. I. Lvovsky: Proceedings of SPIE 6305, 630514 (2006).
Doctoral Thesis
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Squeezed Light
PhD thesis, University of Calgary, Canada (2008)