University Associate Professor in Optical Engineering
Academic Division: Electrical Engineering
Telephone: TBA
Email: aka59@cam.ac.uk
Research interests
Our research interest spans the areas of nanophotonics, semiconductors, nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics and quantum optics. My group works at the intersection between nanophotonics and quantum information science, harnessing foundational active and passive photonic technologies to develop scalable integrated photonic and optical microsystems for applications in metrology, quantum sensing and computing. In particular, our recent research effort has focused on creating fully integrated quantum platforms leveraging photonic integrated circuits and metasurfaces, serving as building blocks for scalable, portable, and deployable quantum sensing and computing systems. These include working on externally funded programs and with private entities on development of scalable technologies for realization of low SWaP optical and microwave atomic clocks, radio-frequency sensors as well as trapped atom and ion-based quantum computing platforms.
Research opportunities
We are looking for motivated undergraduate, postgraduate students and researchers to join our group.
Other positions
Associate Editor, Physical Review Research
Biography
Amit Agrawal is an Associate Professor in Optical Engineering at the University of Cambridge in the UK. He received a Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from India and, M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Utah. Following that, he did his postdoc at University of Maryland/NIST, where he worked in the areas of plasmonics and metamaterials. He then joined the faculty of Syracuse University, and subsequently served on Staff Scientist roles at NIST and the US Army Research Lab. At Cambridge, his group works in the areas of ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, nanofabrication and integrated photonics. His research work is primarily focused on developing metasurfaces and integrated nanophotonic devices to scale and miniaturize quantum systems for applications in quantum sensing and computing.
Department role and responsibilities
Fellow at Trinity College