Yuping Huang (yhuang5)

Yuping Huang

Gallaher Associate Professor of Physics, Director of the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering

Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science

Department of Physics

Burchard 618
(201) 216-5709
(201) 216-5638
Website

Education

  • PhD (2009) Michigan State University (Physics)

Research

My research interest is on developing advanced quantum technology and systems of strong practical relevance, with focus on mass-producible, highly-integrated, turn-key, and room-temperature quantum devices. The ongoing research projects our Laboratory for Quantum Enhanced Systems and Technology (QuEST) include the following:

Quantum-Enhanced Biomedical Imaging
Quantum Processing on Chip
Quantum Solutions to Cyberthreats
Quantum and photonic AI
Quantum remote sensing and metrology

For more details, please visit www.questlab.us.

Institutional Service

  • Center for Quantum Science and Engineering Chair
  • Graduate Program Member
  • SES Research Committee Member
  • Search Committee for Vice Provost for Research and Innovation Member
  • Human Resource Member
  • Associate Chair for Graduate Programs Chair
  • Employee Award Committee Member
  • Employee Awards Committee Member
  • Lecturer Search Member
  • Faculty Search Member

Professional Service

  • Editorial Board
  • NSF Reviewer
  • CLEO Conference Committee
  • SPIE Committee Member
  • SPIE Organizing Committee
  • NSF Panelist
  • National Science Foundation Panelist
  • Conference Committee
  • National Science Foundation Panel

Professional Societies

  • SPIE – Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers Member

Grants, Contracts and Funds

Present:

“ART-020: Quantum Technologies for Armament Systems,” DoD (2021–2023).

“Quantum Parametric Mode Sorting (QPMS) Lidar,” NASA through Ball Aerospace (2022-2023)

"Nonlinear-Optical Pseudo Atoms on Chip," DoD (2021-2024)

Past:
"OP: Collaborative Research: Quantum Zeno Photonics on Chip," NSF (2015-2018).
"Persistent Maritime Quantum Key Distribution," ONR (2015-2018).

"RAISE-EQuIP: A Chip-integrated Platform for Photon-Efficient Quantum
Communications," NSF (2018-2022)

"EFRI ACQUIRE: Development of Heterogenous Platform for Chip-Based Quantum Information Applications," NSF (2016-2021).

"Collaborative Research: Parity-Time Symmetry and Anti-Symmetry in Quantum Optics," NSF (2018-2022).

Patents and Inventions

“METHODS, PROTOCOLS, AND APPARATUSES OF QUANTUM PHYSICAL UN-CLONABLE FUNCTIONS,” US 63/224,820.

"Devices and methods for giant single-photon nonlinearities,” US Patent Application 63/075,004.

"SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR QUANTUM-SECURED, PRIVATE-PRESERVINGCOMPUTATIONS,” PCT/US 2020/056160.

“Devices and methods for low voltage optical modulation,” US 63/021,012.

“Super Ising Emulator with Multi-Body Interactions and All-to-All Connections,” US Patent Application 63/021,012.

“DISCRIMINATIVE REMOTE SENSING AND SURFACE PROFILING BASED ON SUPERRADIANT PHOTONIC BACKSCATTERING,” U.S. Patent 10,535,974.

“QUANTUM MEASUREMENT VIA MODE MATCHED PHOTON CONVERSION,” US Patent 10/935,379.

“CHIP-INTEGRATED DEVICE AND METHODS FOR GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS THAT IS RECONFIGURABLE AND PROVIDES GENUINENESS VERIFICA-TION,” US Patent 16/624,768.

Selected Publications

Conference Proceeding

  1. MacFarlane, N.; Jin, M.; Ma, Z.; Sua, Y.; Foster, M.; Foster, A.; Huang, Y.. Photon-pair generation in a heterogeneous silicon photonic chip. 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO). San Jose, California United States: Optica Publishing Group, 2022.
    https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=CLEO_QELS-2022-FF4I.7.
  2. Kumar, S.; Garikapati, M.; Zhang, H.; Sua, Y.; Huang, Y.. Spatiotemporal quantum parametric mode sorter. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2022 (pp. FF2I.4). San Jose, California United States: Optica Publishing Group, 2022.
    https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=CLEO_QELS-2022-FF2I.4.
  3. Zhang, J.; Sua, Y. M.; Chen, J.; Ramanathan, J.; Tang, C.; Hu, Y.; Huang, Y. (2021). Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Absorption Measurement using Integrated Lithium Niobate Nanophotonics. CLEO: Applications and Technology (pp. AW2S--5).
  4. Zhu, S.; Sua, Y. M.; Rehain, P.; Huang, Y. (2021). Non-line-of-sight imaging with picosecond optical-gated single photon detection. CLEO: Science and Innovations (pp. STu2F--1).
  5. Kumar, S.; Bu, T.; Zhang, H.; Huang, I.; Huang, Y. (2021). Single-Pixel Image Classification via Nonlinear Optics and Deep Neural Network. CLEO: QELS\_Fundamental Science (pp. AW3E--3).
  6. Kumar, S.; Zhang, H.; Huang, Y. (2020). A Super Ising Machine with All-to-All Two-body and Four-body Interactions. CLEO: Science and Innovations (pp. JM4G--3).
  7. Ma, Z.; Chen, J.; Sua, Y. M.; Li, Z.; Tang, C.; Huang, Y. (2020). Efficient Photon Pair Generation in Thin-film Lithium Niobate Microring Resonators. Quantum 2.0 (pp. QM6B--2).
  8. Kumar, P.; Jin, M.; Bu, T.; Kumar, S.; Huang, Y. (2020). Efficient Reservoir Computing using FPGA and Electro-optic Modulation. Frontiers in Optics (pp. JM6B--20).
  9. Zhang, H.; Kumar, S.; Huang, Y. (2020). Large-scale Ising Emulator with All-to-All Connected Four-Body Interactions. Frontiers in Optics (pp. JM6A--26).
  10. Fan, H.; Chen, J.; Zhao, Z.; Wen, J.; Huang, Y. N. (2020). Observation of Anti-parity-time Symmetry on Chip. Frontiers in Optics (pp. FTu8E--6).
  11. Chen, J.; Sua, Y. M.; Ma, Z.; Huang, Y. (2020). Phase-sensitive amplification in nanophotonic periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides. CLEO: Science and Innovations (pp. SM3L--5).
  12. Sua, Y. M.; Zhu, S.; Rehain, P.; Tafone, D.; Muthuswamy, B.; Ramanathan, J.; Dickson, I.; Huang, Y. N. (2020). Quantum 3D imaging through multiscattering media of 10 optical depth. Ocean Sensing and Monitoring XII (vol. 11420, pp. 1142009).
  13. Chen, J.; Ma, Z.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. (2019). Efficient quasi-phase-matched frequency conversion in a lithium niobate racetrack microresonator. Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics (pp. W5A--11).
  14. Zhang, H.; Kumar, S.; Huang, Y. (2019). Mode-selective image upconversion through turbulence. Frontiers in Optics $+$ Laser Science APS/DLS. Frontiers in Optics $+$ Laser Science APS/DLS (pp. JW3A.46). Optical Society of America.
    http://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?URI=FiO-2019-JW3A.46.
  15. Rehain, P.; Sua, Y. M.; Zhu, S.; Dickson, I.; Muthuswamy, B.; Ramanathan, J.; Shahverdi, A.; Huang, Y. N. (2019). Noise-tolerant 3D Imaging. CLEO: Applications and Technology (pp. JTh5A--10).

Journal Article

  1. Nguyen, L.; Ramanathan, J.; Wang, M. M.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. N. (2021). A trustless decentralized protocol for distributed consensus of public quantum random numbers. arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12038.
  2. Zhang, J.; Sua, Y. M.; Chen, J.; Ramanathan, J.; Tang, C.; Li, Z.; Hu, Y.; Huang, Y. (2021). Carbon-dioxide absorption spectroscopy with solar photon counting and integrated lithium niobate micro-ring resonator. Applied Physics Letters (17 ed., vol. 118, pp. 171103). AIP Publishing LLC.
  3. Jin, M.; Chen, J.; Sua, Y.; Kumar, P.; Huang, Y. N. (2021). Efficient electro-optical modulation on thin-film lithium niobate. Optics Letters (8 ed., vol. 46, pp. 1884--1887). Optical Society of America.
  4. Chen, J.; Tang, C.; Jin, M.; Li, Z.; Ma, Z.; Fan, H.; Kumar, S.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. (2021). Efficient frequency doubling with active stabilization on chip. Laser \& Photonics Reviews (11 ed., vol. 15, pp. 2100091).
  5. Chen, J.; Tang, C.; Jin, M.; Li, Z.; Ma, Z.; Fan, H.; Kumar, S.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. (2021). Efficient Frequency Doubling with Active Stabilization on Chip. arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.00309.
  6. Chen, J.; Tang, C.; Sua, Y.; Huang, Y. (2021). Efficient frequency doubling with active stabilization on chip. Laser & Photonics Reviews (11 ed., vol. 12, pp. 2100091). Hoboken: Wiley.
  7. Kumar, P.; Jin, M.; Bu, T.; Kumar, S.; Huang, Y. (2021). Efficient reservoir computing using field programmable gate array and electro-optic modulation. OSA Continuum (3 ed., vol. 4, pp. 1086--1098). Optical Society of America.
  8. Asawa, K.; Kumar, S.; Huang, Y. N.; Choi, C. N. (2021). Guiding light via slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces. Applied Physics Letters (9 ed., vol. 118, pp. 091602). AIP Publishing LLC.
  9. Maruca, S.; Rehain, P.; Sua, Y. M.; Zhu, S.; Huang, Y. N. (2021). Non-invasive single photon imaging through strongly scattering media. Optics Express (7 ed., vol. 29, pp. 9981--9990). Optical Society of America.
  10. Chen, J.; Li, Z.; Sua, Y.; Huang (2021). Photon Conversion and Interaction in a Quasi-Phase-Matched Microresonator. Phys. Rev. Applied (vol. 16, pp. 064004). Hoboken: APS.
    https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.064004.
  11. Chen, J.; Li, Z.; Ma, Z.; Tang, C.; Fan, H.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. (2021). Photon Conversion and Interaction on Chip. arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.00275.
  12. Li, Z.; Ma, Z.; Tang, C.; Fan, H.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y.; others (2021). Photon Conversion and Interaction on Chip.
  13. Fan, H.; Ma, Z.; Chen, J.; Li, Z.; Tang, C.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. N. (2021). Photon conversion in thin-film lithium niobate nanowaveguides: a noise analysis. JOSA B (7 ed., vol. 38, pp. 2172--2179). Optical Society of America.
  14. Fan, H.; Ma, Z.; Chen, J.; Li, Z.; Tang, C.; Sua, Y.; Huang, Y. N. (2021). Photon Conversion in Thin-film Lithium Niobate Nanowaveguides: A Noise Analysis. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.07044.
  15. Zhu, S.; Sua, Y. M.; Hu, Y.; Weimer, C.; Ma, Z.; Zheng, Z.; Rehain, P.; Stamnes, K. N.; Zhou, Y.; Lee, J. H.; others (2021). Quantum parametric mode sorting: a case study on small angle scattering. JOSA B (10 ed., vol. 38, pp. D15--D21). Optical Society of America.
  16. Kumar, S.; Bu, T.; Zhang, H.; Huang, I.; Huang, Y. N. (2021). Robust and efficient single-pixel image classification with nonlinear optics. Optics Letters (8 ed., vol. 46, pp. 1848--1851). Optical Society of America.
  17. Huang, Y. (2021). Single photon imaging and sensing of highly obscured objects around the corner (vol. 29, pp. 40865). Optics Express .
  18. Zhu, S.; Sua, Y.; Rehain, P.; Huang, Y. (2021). Single photon imaging and sensing of highly obscured objects around the corner. Optics Express (25 ed., vol. 29, pp. 40865-40877). Hoboken: Optica Publishing Group.
    https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-29-25-40865&id=465387.
  19. Zhu, S.; Sua, Y. M.; Rehain, P.; Huang, Y. (2021). Single photon imaging and sensing of obscured objects around the corner. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08210.
  20. Rehain, P.; Ramanathan, J.; Sua, Y. M.; Zhu, S.; Tafone, D.; Huang, Y. (2021). Single-Photon Vibrometry. arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04771.
  21. Tafone, D.; Huang, I.; Rehain, P.; Zhu, S.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. N. (2021). Single-point material recognition by quantum parametric mode sorting and photon counting. Applied Optics (14 ed., vol. 60, pp. 4109--4112). Optical Society of America.
  22. Kumar, S.; Zhang, H.; Kumar, P.; Garikapati, M.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. (2021). Spatiotemporal mode-selective quantum frequency converter. Physical Review A (2 ed., vol. 104, pp. 023506). APS.
  23. Kumar, S.; Zhang, H.; Kumar, P.; Garikapati, M.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. (2021). Time-Spatial Mode Selective Quantum Frequency Converter. arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.14160.
  24. Ding, Q.; Chatterjee, R. N.; Huang, Y. N.; Yu, T. N. (2021). Gigh-dimensional temporal mode propagation in a turbulent environment. Quantum Information and Computation (3-4 ed., vol. 21, pp. 233-254).
  25. Zhang, H.; Kumar, S.; Huang, Y. (2020). A Super-resolution Optical Classifier with High Photon Efficiency. arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.16713.
  26. Fan, H.; Chen, J.; Zhao, Z.; Wen, J.; Huang, Y. N. (2020). Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry in Passive Nanophotonics. arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.11151.
  27. Fan, H.; Chen, J.; Zhao, Z.; Wen, J.; Huang, Y. (2020). Antiparity-time symmetry in passive nanophotonics. ACS Photonics (11 ed., vol. 7, pp. 3035--3041). American Chemical Society.
  28. Chen, J.; Tang, C.; Ma, Z.; Li, Z.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. (2020). Efficient and highly tunable second-harmonic generation in Z-cut periodically poled lithium niobate nanowaveguides. Optics Letters (13 ed., vol. 45, pp. 3789--3792). Optical Society of America.
  29. Chen, J.; Tang, C.; Ma, Z.; Li, Z.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. (2020). Efficient and highly tunable second-harmonic generation in Z-cut periodically poled lithium niobate nanowaveguides. Optics Letters (13 ed., vol. 45, pp. 3789--3792). Optical Society of America.
  30. Kumar, S.; Zhang, H.; Huang, Y. (2020). Large-scale Ising emulation with four body interaction and all-to-all connections. Communications Physics (1 ed., vol. 3, pp. 1--9). Nature Publishing Group.
  31. Rehain, P.; Sua, Y. M.; Zhu, S.; Dickson, I.; Muthuswamy, B.; Ramanathan, J.; Shahverdi, A.; Huang, Y. (2020). Noise-tolerant single photon sensitive three-dimensional imager. Nature Communications (1 ed., vol. 11, pp. 1--7). Nature Publishing Group.
  32. Bu, T.; Kumar, S.; Zhang, H.; Huang, I.; Huang, Y. (2020). Single-pixel pattern recognition with coherent nonlinear optics. Optics Letters (24 ed., vol. 45, pp. 6771--6774). Optical Society of America.
  33. Zhang, H.; Kumar, S.; Huang, Y. (2020). Super-resolution optical classifier with high photon efficiency. Optics Letters (18 ed., vol. 45, pp. 4968--4971). Optical Society of America.
  34. Chen, J.; Tang, C.; Ma, Z.; Li, Z.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. (2020). Ultra-efficient and highly-tunable second-harmonic generation in Z-cut periodically poled lithium niobate nanowaveguides. arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.02056.
  35. Ma, Z.; Chen, J.; Li, Z.; Tang, C.; Sua, Y. M.; Fan, H.; Huang, Y. (2020). Ultrabright Quantum Photon Sources on Chip. Physical Review Letters (26 ed., vol. 125, pp. 263602). American Physical Society.
  36. Huang, I.; Huang, Y. (2019). Counteracting quantum decoherence with optimized disorder in discrete-time quantum walks. Journal of Modern Optics (16 ed., vol. 66, pp. 1652-1657). Taylor & Francis.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/09500340.2019.1655598.
  37. Zhang, H.; Kumar, S.; Huang, Y. (2019). Mode Selective Image Upconversion over Turbulence. arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.08715.
  38. Huang, Y. (2019). Naturally Phase Matched Lithium Niobate Nanocircuits for Integrated Nonlinear Photonics. OSA Continuum (vol. 1, pp. 229). Hoboken: OSA.
    Dept. of Physic & Eng. Phys., Stevens Institute of Technology, 524 River St, Burchard Bldg, Rm 713.
  39. Tudor, S. F.; Chatterjee, R. N.; Nguyen, L.; Huang, Y. N. (2019). Quantum systems for Monte Carlo methods and applications to fractional stochastic processes. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (vol. 534, pp. 121901).
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037843711931115X.
  40. Silver, M.; Huang, Y.; Langrock, C.; Fejer, M. M.; Kumar, P.; Kanter, G. S. (2019). Three-Signal Temporal-Mode Selective Upconversion Demultiplexing. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (21 ed., vol. 31, pp. 1749--1752). IEEE.
  41. Chen, J.; Ma, Z.; Sua, Y. M.; Li, Z.; Tang, C.; Huang, Y. (2019). Ultra-efficient frequency conversion in quasi-phase-matched lithium niobate microrings. Optica (9 ed., vol. 6, pp. 1244--1245). Optical Society of America.
  42. Jin, M.; Chen, J.; Sua, Y. M.; Huang, Y. (2019). High-extinction electro-optic modulation on lithium niobate thin film. Opt. Lett. (5 ed., vol. 44, pp. 1265--1268). OSA.
    http://ol.osa.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-44-5-1265.
  43. Kumar, S.; Zhang, H.; Maruca, S.; Huang, Y. (2019). Mode-selective image upconversion. Opt. Lett. (1 ed., vol. 44, pp. 98--101). OSA.
    http://ol.osa.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-44-1-98.
  44. Shahverdi, A.; Sua, Y. M.; Dickson, I.; Garikapati, M.; Huang, Y. (2018). Mode selective up-conversion detection for LIDAR applications. Opt. Express (12 ed., vol. 26, pp. 15914--15923). OSA.
    http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-26-12-15914.

Other

  1. Huang, Y. N.; Sua, Y. M.; Chen, J.; Nguyen, L. T. (2021). Chip-integrated device and methods for generating random numbers that is reconfigurable and provides genuineness verification. Google Patents.
  2. Huang, Y. N.; SUA, Y. M.; SHAHVERDI, A. (2021). Approaches, apparatuses and methods for lidar applications based on-mode-selective frequency conversion. Google Patents.
  3. Huang, Y. N. (2021). Discriminative remote sensing and surface profiling based on superradiant photonic backscattering. Google Patents.
  4. Huang, Y. N. (2021). Method and apparatus for quantum measurement via mode matched photon conversion. Google Patents.
  5. Huang, Y. N. (2020). Discriminative remote sensing and surface profiling based on superradiant photonic backscattering. Google Patents.

Courses

PEP 242: Modern Physics
PEP 201: Physics III
PEP 511: Experimental Quantum Information
PEP 579: Nonlinear Optics
PEP 680: Quantum Optics