Volkan Gurses

PhD Candidate in Electrical Engineering and Physics at Caltech

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[email protected]

1200 E California Blvd

Pasadena, CA 91125

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Physics at Caltech working broadly on integrated systems. My goal is to build technologies that operates at the fundamental physical limits.

Research: My PhD research focused on developing large-scale integrated photonic-electronic systems for quantum information science and high-performance computing. I invented various technologies that leverage quantum information to achieve superior performance over their classical counterparts. One example is quantum phased arrays that generalized antenna theory to quantized electromagnetic fields and demonstrated the first free-space interface for quantum information.

Previously: I received my Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Caltech and Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech. I was an awardee of the R. David Middlebrook Fellowship, Tau Beta Pi Fellowship, IEEE MTT-S Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship, European Union Contest for Young Scientists CERN Special Donated Prize and First Prize in Physics in the Turkish National Secondary School Research Contest.

selected publications

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    Free-space quantum information platform on a chip
    Volkan Gurses, Samantha I. Davis, Neil Sinclair, and 2 more authors
    2024
  2. JSTQE
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    Large-scale crosstalk-corrected thermo-optic phase shifter arrays in silicon photonics
    Volkan Gurses, Reza Fatemi, Aroutin Khachaturian, and 1 more author
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2022