국현 . 11/15/25 국현 . 11/15/25

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(2025 Dec) Prof. Nam is giving two invited talks at IEDM and MRS on silicon photonics technologies.

국현 . 11/14/25 국현 . 11/14/25

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(2025 Oct) Prof. Nam delivered a tutorial talk on co-packaged optics (CPO) technologies for AI data centers at the Optical Interconnect Workshop (OIW).

국현 . 11/9/25 국현 . 11/9/25

COMMUNITY

(2025 Sep) Prof. Nam presented on photonic integrated circuit technology for scalable quantum computing at the Quantum Awareness Week by NRF.

국현 . 9/13/25 국현 . 9/13/25

ACHIEVEMENT

(2025 Sep) Gwangmin, Daeyeon and Gyuseong were selected as recipients for the 2025 Preliminary Startup Package Support Program for developing photonic-integrated circuits for AI and quantum technologies.

국현 . 9/13/25 국현 . 9/13/25

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(2025 Sep) Our lab is awarded the Innovation Startup Laboratory grant for developing photonic-integrated circuits for AI and quantum technologies.

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(2025 Jun) Prof. Nam is giving a plenary talk at European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO) 2025!

Donguk Nam 5/17/25 Donguk Nam 5/17/25

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Youngmin’s paper on GeSn nanowire lasers is published at Science Advances!

Donguk Nam 5/16/25 Donguk Nam 5/16/25

NEW MEMBERS

We welcome 5 new graduate students to our lab starting in Fall 2025!

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ACHIEVEMENT

Our lab has been awarded a research grant (중견연구자지원사업) from the 한국연구재단! This grant will support our research on developing on-chip lasers and quantum photonic-integrated circuits for the next five years, through 2030.

Donguk Nam 3/2/25 Donguk Nam 3/2/25

COMMUNITY

Prof. Nam organized a forum titled “다가오는 양자시대: 양자기술과 기계공학의 접점” to explore the role of mechanical engineers in the rapidly advancing field of quantum technology.

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ACHIEVEMENT

Yu Yi's paper on tunable 2D quantum emitters is accepted at Nano Letters! (PDF)

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We have 2 new preprints on quantum photonics work, led by Yu Yi and Manlin. If you wish to read them, click the links (Paper 1 and Paper 2).

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NEW MEMBERS

We have the very first batch of new members at KAIST! Welcome everyone and let's have fun together at Daejeon!

Guest User 6/1/24 Guest User 6/1/24

ACHIEVEMENT

Congrats to Youngmin (Prof. Kim!) on securing a tenure-track assistant professor position at Kookmin University. Visit Prof. Kim’s website (Link) if you wish to know more about him.

Donguk Nam 4/1/24 Donguk Nam 4/1/24

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Hyojun's paper on actively tunable GeSn lasers is accepted at Nature Nanotechnology! (PDF)

Donguk Nam 7/1/23 Donguk Nam 7/1/23

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Youngmin's paper on a single GeSn nanowire cavity has been published in Nature Communications! (PDF)

Donguk Nam 6/1/23 Donguk Nam 6/1/23

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Prof. Nam received CoE Research - Young Faculty Award (Special Mention) for his team's research output in recent years!

Donguk Nam 6/1/23 Donguk Nam 6/1/23

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Wen Wei received the Koh Boon Hwee Scholars Award and Prof. Nam is recognized as an inspirational mentor!

Donguk Nam 6/1/23 Donguk Nam 6/1/23

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Pratul and Zachary won URECA Poster Competition for their undergraduate research at our research group!

Donguk Nam 5/1/23 Donguk Nam 5/1/23

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Kunze's paper on second-order nonlinearity in strained graphene has been published in Nature Communications!