Faculty Directory
Prem Kumar

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Director of Center for Photonic Communication and Computing

Contact

2145 Sheridan Road
Tech Room M392
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

847-491-4128Email Prem Kumar

Website

Prem Kumar's Homepage

Center for Photonic Communication and Computing

Current Research

Centers

Center for Photonic Communication and Computing

Departments

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Affiliations

PhD Program in Applied Physics

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Education

Ph.D. Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 1980

M.Sc. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1976

B.Sc. Physics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, 1974


Research Interests

Expert Areas

  • Quantum communications and quantum information processing/computing
  • Quantum sensing and imaging
  • Fiber-optic communications

 Research

  • Developing advanced photonic devices and systems for communication and computing
  • Increasing technological speeds through optical systems
  • Creating networks and devices that take advantage of quantum mechanics for highly secure information and networking
  • Developing tools for generating, distributing, and ultrafast processing of quantum entanglement
  • Using quantum light for precision measurements, sensing, and imaging

 


Selected Publications

  • Shi, Siyuan; Kumar, Prem; Lee, Kim Fook, Generation of photonic entanglement in green fluorescent proteins, Nature communications 8(1) (2017).
  • Callewaert, Francois; Velev, Vesselin; Jiang, Shizhou; Sahakian, Alan Varteres; Kumar, Prem; Aydin, Koray, Inverse-designed stretchable metalens with tunable focal distance, Applied Physics Letters 112(9) (2018).
  • Silver, Michael; Manurkar, Paritosh; Huang, Yu Ping; Langrock, Carsten; Fejer, Martin M.; Kumar, Prem; Kanter, Gregory S., Spectrally multiplexed upconversion detection with c-band pump and signal wavelengths, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 29(13):1097-1100 (2017).
  • Lee, Kim Fook; Tian, Ying; Yang, He; Mustonen, Kimmo; Martinez, Amos; Dai, Qing; Kauppinen, Esko I.; Malowicki, John; Kumar, Prem; Sun, Zhipei, Photon-Pair Generation with a 100 nm Thick Carbon Nanotube Film, Advanced Materials 29(24) (2017).
  • Manurkar, Paritosh; Jain, Nitin; Silver, Michael; Huang, Yu Ping; Langrock, Carsten; Fejer, Martin M.; Kumar, Prem; Kanter, Gregory Scott, Multidimensional mode-separable frequency conversion for high-speed quantum communication, Optica 3(12):1300-1307 (2016).
  • Nowierski, Samantha J.; Oza, Neal N.; Kumar, Prem; Kanter, Gregory S., Tomographic reconstruction of time-bin-entangled qudits, Physical Review A 94(4) (2016).
  • Rambo, Timothy M.; Altepeter, Joseph B.; Kumar, Prem; D'Ariano, G. Mauro, Functional quantum computing, Physical Review A 93(5) (2016).
  • Strekalov, Dmitry V.; Kowligy, Abijith S.; Velev, Vesselin G.; Kanter, Gregory Scott; Kumar, Prem; Huang, Yu Ping, Phase matching for the optical frequency conversion processes in whispering gallery mode resonators, Journal of Modern Optics 63(1):50-63 (2016).