We are an experimental research team with a focus on the design, fabrication, and characterization of photonic nanostructures for enhancing on-chip light-matter interactions including (1) solid-state quantum photonics with epitaxial quantum dots; (2) integrated nonlinear photonics; (3) micro- and nano-lasers.

Ø2025-07-09

Publications in Nature and Nature Physics. 

Ø2025-07-01

Yan's 3D strain engineering is published in Nature Communications.

Ø2025-03-12

After 6 and 7 years of working in the group, our former Ph. D. students Shunfa and Bo have now become faculty members of the university, congrats to Prof. Liu and Prof. Chen!

Ø2024-06-07

Bo's sub-wavelength whispering gallery microdisks with high-quality factors is published in Nano Letters.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c01730 

Ø2024-05-22

Nphoton online and a NP hat-trick within 5 months.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-024-01449-4  

Ø2024-05-17

Xueshi, Yuhao successfully defensed their Ph.D. thesis and congrats to Dr. Li and Dr. Ren. 

Ø2024-03-26

There will be a "Nature Photon." hat trick this year~~~

Ø2024-03-25

Bo's OAM comb will be online on 29th March.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-024-01415-0

Ø2024-01-10

Shunfa's dynamic RF is online 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01359-x 

Ø2024-01-09

Bo's OAM comb is very close to the acceptance.

Ø2023-03-07

LSA on-line. Congrats to Xueshi's for having the second LSA in a row!  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-023-01110-9   

Ø2023-02-23

Xueshi's work on bright single-photon sources pumped by on-chip microlasers was accepted by LSA. A great start for the new locking-down-free semester!  https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01782 

Ø2023-01-25

Our invited review on epitaxial quantum dots is published in Photonics Insights. This work was led by the young generation of QD nerds, Prof. Xiaoyan Zhou from TJU and Dr. Liang Zhai from Unibas.  

Ø2022-12-24

Yuhao's paper on mini-BIC laser is published in Science Advance on X-mas! It is a decent collaboration with friends in Beijing.

Our collaborative work on high-Q BIC with Prof. Sheng Lan at SCNU is published in ACS Photonics. Zhuojun led the activities in SYSU side.

Ø2022-09-30

Two LSAs accepted right before the National Day. One is waveguide BICs for SHG and the other is the curved microcavity led prof. Feng Li at XJTU。

Ø2022-07-15

Shunfa got the presentation prize and Xueshi got the poster award for the national quantum optics conference

Ø2022-06-15

Shunfa successfully got the excellent Ph.D. thesis award in SYSU and he will be staying with us  as a postdoc. Shiwen and Jiayi will join my previous master student Mafia in Shenzhen as physics educators.

Ø2022-05-19

Shunfa's art image hits the cover of Nature Nanotechnology~

Ø2022-05-18

Shunfa, Jiayi and shiwen successfully defended their thesis and are up to the next stages of their lifes.

Ø2022-04-15

Both Shunfa and Jiayi won the Yang Chen-Ning Prize and National Scholarship early this year.

Ø2022-04-11

Paper on line: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-022-01092-6    

It is an excellent example of pursuing excellence in the experiments.

Ø2022-02-15

Yuming and Shunfa's work of using stimulated emission to tailor single-photon sources is accepted by Nature Nano. http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09284

Ø2021

Zhunjun completed his Ph.D., Yan finished her Master project. Zhuojun is staying with us and Yan is pursuing her new Career in Shen Zhen.

Ø2020-11-27

Bo's work on OAM single-photon sources was accepted by Nature Nano. A perfect end for his Ph.D. period and meanwhile a fresh start for his postdoc career.

Ø2020-07-30

We are very honored to have a few high-profile speakers to give on-line lectures to the group members in this very special semester.  They are Prof. Hairun Guo (micro-combs), Prof. Shunping Zhang (nanocavities) and Feng Li (photonic spin-orbital couplings). 

Ø2020-06-30

My first master student Zhe He and Ph.D. student Bo Chen have successfully their thesis. Zhe is moving back to Shenzhen while Bo will be still staying with us as a postdoc.

Ø2020-05-30

Zhe's paper on SiN-Perovskite nanolasing and Bo's paper on WSe2-SiN have been published in Advanced Optical Materials and Nanophotonics. 

Ø2019-12-31

Our collaborative work led by Prof. Weibo Gao at NTU was accepted in Nano Letters.

It is one more typical example of collaboration with our expertise on nanofab.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09718

Ø2019-12-27

Dr. Yi Yu from DTU and Dr Xiaoyan Zhou from NBI visited my lab.

Ø2019-12-20

Yuming's paper on bright polarized single-photons in visible was published in Optics Material Express.

https://www.osapublishing.org/ome/abstract.cfm?uri=ome-10-1-170

Ø2019-11-04

Zhuojun's high-Q BICs work was accepted for publication in PRL. It was an excellent example of great work created by a self-motivated student and reliable collaborators (Dr. Yi Xu's group from JNU).

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.253901

Ø2019-10-11

Our invited review for Advanced Quantum Technology was published. 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qute.201900034

Ø2019-09-17

Our collaborative work with Dr. Ying Yu on droplet quantum dots was published in Nanotechnology. Thanks Dr. Yu for taking us on flight! 

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6528/ab3efb

Ø2019-06-13

Our invited review for Journal of Semiconductor was published as a cover article.

http://www.jos.ac.cn/article/id/b391da04-74a1-428f-a397-4938addb853f

Ø2019-06-04

Alumni Prof. Lady. Shumin Xiao from HIT (Shenzhen) visited us to educated the future of our country (bachelor students:))

Ø2019-06-02

Dr. Zaiquan Xu from UTS visited our lab and enabled the observations of hBN ZPL in the lab! 

Ø2019-06-01

Prof. Jin Liu received "Young Scientist Award" from 7th workshop on Microcavity Photonics held in Nankai University, Tianjing. 

Microcavity Rocks!~

Ø2019-04-30

The entangled sources somehow keep on attracting a bit attentions, an amateur highlight from Nature for non-scientists. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01297-1

Ø2019-04-27

Our joint work with Prof. Weibo Gao at NTU on inter-layer exciton in bi-layer two-D material has been published in Science Advances. Another typical example of  successful collaborations based on our photonic nano-structures.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/4/eaav4506.full

Our joint work with Dr. Kartik Srinivasan is on-line today in Optica. It is the first demonstration of quantum frequency conversion of Fock states with an on-chip nanophotonic converter.

 https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-6-5-563

Ø2019-04-23

Our article on strongly-entangled sources with high brightness and indisitinguishability is finally on-line at Nature Nanotechnology, great team work together with Prof. Armando Rastelli in Linz and Dr. Kartik Srinivasan in NIST.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0435-9

The article is published together with an exceptionally well written news/views article, explaining the physics and its significance by Prof. Igor Aharonovich at University of Technology, Sydney.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0440-z

Ø2019-04-22

Dr. Juan Loredo is visiting us, giving an excellent talk on quantum light sources based on quantum dots.

Ø2019-04-20

Website launched thanks to Xueshi who is officially becoming a Ph.D. student next semester.