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Prem Kumar

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1980; M.Sc. Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1976; B.Sc. Physics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India, 1974

Research Interests

Kumar group’s research is conducted under the umbrella of the Center for Photonic Communication and Computing in the ECE department. The Center conducts cutting edge fundamental science and engineering research leading to the development of advanced photonic systems for communication and computing. The focus is on optical and optoelectronic systems that push the technological limits to ever increasing speeds (currently targeting terabit per second range) or levels of integration (nanophotonic devices) or that exploit the fundamental laws of nature to accomplish communication, signal processing, and computing in radically new ways (quantum communications and computing with photons). 

Selected Publications

Kumar, Prem; Oza, Neal N.; Huang, Yu-Ping, “Entanglement-preserving photonic switching: Full cross-bar operation with quantum data streams”, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, (2014)

Kumar, Prem; Huang, Yu-Ping; Patel, Monika; Altepeter, Joseph B; Oza, Neal N, “Independent telecom-fiber sources of quantum indistinguishable single photons”, New Journal of Physics, (2014)

Kumar, Prem; Huang, Yu-Ping; Kowligy, Abijith S.; Strekalov, Dmitry V., “Optical sum-frequency generation in a whispering-gallery-mode resonator”, New Journal of Physics, (2014)

Kumar, Prem; Huang, Yu-Ping; Wang, Ke-Yao; Velev, Vesselin G.; Lee, Kim Fook, “Multichannel photon-pair generation using hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides”, Optics Letters, (2014)

A. McMillan, Y.-P. Huang, B. Bell, A. Clark, P. Kumar, and J. Rarity, “Single-Photon Generation and Detection: Physics and Applications”, Elsevier/Academic Press, (2013)

Kumar, Prem; Annamalai, Muthiah; Stelmakh, Nikolai; Vasilyev, Michael, “Compact representation of the spatial modes of a phase-sensitive image amplifier”, Optics Express, (2013)

Huang, Yu-Ping; Kumar, Prem; Oza, Neal N., “Entanglement-preserving photonic switching: Demonstration of full cross-bar operation with 25-GHz capability”, 2013

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, OFC/NFOEC 2013, (2013)

Kumar, Prem; Alon, Gideon; Lim, Oo-Kaw; Chen, Chao-Hsiang; Annamalai, Muthiah, “Fundamental eigenmode of traveling-wave phase-sensitive optical parametric amplifier: Experimental generation and verification”, Optics Letters, (2013)

Y.-P. Huang and P. Kumar, “Interaction-free all-optical switching in χ(2) microdisks for quantum applications,” Optics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 14, July 15, 2010, pp. 2376–2378.

S. X. Wang, D. R. Reilly, G. S. Kanter, S. Ozharar, and P. Kumar, “Running-code optical CDMA at 2 x 10 Gbit/s and 40 Gbit/s,” IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 46, Iss. 10, 13 May 2010, pp. 701–703.

M. Medic, J. B. Altepeter, M. A. Hall, M. Patel, and P. Kumar, “Fiber-based, telecom-band source of degenerate entangled photons,” Optics Letters, Vol. 35, No. 6, March 15, 2010, pp. 802–804. Also in the News and Views section of Nature Photonics, Vol. 4, June 2010, pp. 342–343.

M. Patel, J. B. Altepeter, M. A. Hall, M. Medic, and P. Kumar, “Experimental Characterization of a Telecom-band Quantum Controlled-NOT Gate,” J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 15, No. 6, November/December 2009, pp. 1685–1693.

M. A. Hall, J. B. Altepeter, and P. Kumar, “Drop-in compatible entanglement for optical-fiber networks,” Optics Express, Vol. 17, Iss. 17, 17 August 2009, pp. 14558-14566.