​​​​​​​Trevor is a 2nd-year Materials  Ph.D. student and Foundry Fellow.  His research focuses on silicon and III-V semiconductor photonics.  His current research project through the Foundry utilizes gallium arsenide ring resonators to create entangled photon pairs.  The project hopes to improve the generation rate and fidelity of entangled photon pairs for use in quantum teleportation, quantum computing or other quantum information tasks.

Trevor Steiner interned with HPE, one of Quantum Foundry's industrial partners, during the Summer of 2020.

What research project did you work on as part of the internship with HPE?:  

Understanding the behavior of non-continuous wave lasers is critical for photonic computing. I spent the summer modeling the behavior of ring modulators under pulsed laser sources as well as testing pulsed laser designs experimentally.

How did the internship opportunity benefit your research and career goals?:  

The experimental testing portion of the project was instrumental in teaching me new laser testing and analysis techniques that will be useful for my Ph.D. research. The modeling portion of my project improved my literature analysis skills and helped me better understand the different effects influencing the transmission through semiconductor ring modulators.