Kumar Lab

News & Gallery

News & Gallery

Lab milestones and updates, in reverse chronological order.

  1. Yitianran Wang and Hyunjun Park holding award certificates.

    Congratulations to Yitianran Wang on winning the Lourie Summer Research Fellowship, and to Hyunjun Park on winning the Lee & Kang Endowed Memorial Scholarship!

    Lab renovations continue — getting closer to a working space. Heavily inspired by the Simon Lab at Stanford.

    Ski trip with the entire AMO group at Stony Brook.

  4. Portrait of Abhishek Cherath.

    Congratulations to Abhishek Cherath on being accepted to the Stony Brook Physics PhD program!

  5. Loading the blue MOT and transferring to the green narrow-line MOT (the blue MOT also looks green when the green beams are on).

  6. Cavity-array microscope published in Nature

    A. L. Shaw, A. Soper, D. Shadmany, A. Kumar, et al. — "A cavity-array microscope for parallel single-atom interfacing" is out in Nature 650, 320–326 (2026).

    Read more →

  7. Blue magneto-optical trap fluorescence in the science chamber.

    First blue MOT in the new chamber!

  8. Renovation progress inside the lab space in August 2025.

    New lab renovations are finally coming along.

  9. Large electromagnetic coils in the lab in June 2025.

    Some big coils.

  10. Vacuum chamber assembly under vacuum in April 2025.

    Chamber fully built and under vacuum.

  11. Team members assembling the vacuum chamber in March 2025.

    Finally assembling the vacuum chamber. Abhishek and Adam debating how to screw a screw?

  12. Lab setup progress in a temporary space during October 2024.

    Steady progress in our temporary space. Abhishek and Mingyang debating which mount to use?

  13. Group photo from the first lab outing in June 2024.

    First group outing.

  14. Experimental setup for second harmonic generation at 399 nanometers.

    Second harmonic generation at 399 nm is coming along.

  15. First box of lab snacks in the temporary lab space.

    Milestone — our first box of lab snacks.

  16. Temporary lab space prepared for initial build-out work in March 2024.

    Temporary space ready to start building while the main labs are renovated. Thanks to Prof. Tom Allison and his group for sharing their space.