Group News
1 September 2025: Congrats to CHTM's NQVL team on our project's advancement and growth! UNM and NMSU welcome our new partners from University of Virginia and University of Maryland and look forward to a fruitful collaboration.
6 May 2025: Gabriel Colación presents "Microcombs in Si3N4 Microresonators Fabricated via Metal Lift-off: Demonstration of Octave Bandwidth, Dual Dispersive Waves, and Solitons" at the 2025 Optica Nonlinear Optics conference in Honolulu, HI.
15 May 2025: The Drake Lab welcomes new RA Yinjuan Zhai from the UNM Optical Science and engineering PhD program!
4 - 9 May 2025: The Drake Lab goes to CLEO 2025! Special congratulations to Brandon Stone and Lala Rukh for their excellent presentations.
24 July 2024: Prof. Drake teams up with Prof. Jean-Claude Diels in a new NSF funded project exploring Magnetometry through direct phase measurement with correlated frequency combs. We are excited to begin a fruitful collaboration!
28 May 2024: The Drake Lab is a proud participant in UNM's QU-REACH summer undergraduate research program. We welcome NM quantum researchers Karis Daskalos and Blass Molina!
10 May 2024: Gabriel Colación presents "Design and realization of octave-spanning, low fceo microcombs at sub-telecom wavelengths in silicon nitride" at the 2024 CLEO Conference in Charlotte, NC.
1 May 2024: The Drake lab welcomes new RA Ameen Zerrad, from the UNM Physics PhD program!
31 January 2024: Lala Rukh presents "Mitigation of thermal instabilities in Kerr microcombs" at the 2024 SPIE Photonics West Conference in San Francisco, CA.
24 January 2024: Prof. Drake wins an NSF CAREER award for Ultralow phase noise signal generation using Kerr-microresonator optical frequency combs.
10 October 2023: Brandon Stone presents “Enhanced Thermal Stability of Soliton States in Coupled Kerr Microresonators” at the 2023 Frontiers in Optics Conference in Tacoma, WA.
1 September 2023: The Drake Lab welcomes grad student Franco Buck from the UNM Optical Science and engineering PhD program!
17 August 2023: CHTM has won an NSF MRI award to acquire a state-of-the-art Electron Beam Lithography system for the CHTM cleanroom. Congrats to us all!
11 May 2023: Lala Rukh presents “Comparison of Soft and Hard Mask for Fabrication of High Q SiN Microring Resonators” at the 2023 CLEO Conference in San Jose, CA.
5 February 2023: Gabriel Colación presents "Subtractive processing of thick silicon nitride waveguide resonators: a comparison of soft and hard etch templates" at 2023 SPIE Photonics West Conference in San Francisco, CA.
7 December 2022: Congratulations to Gabriel Colación for advancing to PhD Candidacy!
27 October 2022: Congratulations to Lala Rukh for advancing to PhD Candidacy!
24 August 2022: The Drake lab teams up with researchers at CHTM and the University of Delaware for an NSF-funded EPSCoR Track-II program: Laying the Foundation for Scalable Quantum Photonic Technologies.
23 August 2022: The Drake lab welcomes new RA Brandon Stone, from the UNM Physics PhD program!
14 May 2022: Congratulations to Lala Rukh for earning her MS in Optical Science and Engineering!
27 January 2022: The Drake lab teams up with Nexus Photonics, Northrup Grummon, and UCLA to develop a frequency-comb-based low-noise microwave synthesizer through the DARPA GRYPHON program: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-01-27
5 November 2021: Prof. Drake wins an AFOSR Young Investigator’s Program award for Visible Kerr-microresonator Frequency Combs.
