Welcome to the Hood Lab at Purdue!

We are an experimental quantum optics group working at the interface of atomic, molecular, and optical physics. Our research focuses on three areas: (1) generating remote entanglement between individually trapped atoms using photonic links, (2) assembling ultracold LiCs molecules from laser-cooled lithium and cesium atoms in optical tweezers for quantum chemistry and quantum simulation, and (3) engineering single-photon sources from organic molecules embedded in crystals and integrated photonic structures. Across all three efforts, our goal is to harness strong light-matter interactions to build new platforms for quantum science and technology.