| Below you will find a list of
research programs and faculty members involved in each area.
Click on a research area to get to a detailed page or click
on a faculty member's name to get directly to their research
page. |
| RESEARCH
AREAS |
KEY
AREAS |
FACULTY
MEMBERS |
| Biomedical
Optics |
Raman
spectroscopy, cerebral hemodynamics, biosensors, nonlinear
optical microscopes, detection and characterization of single
viruses, study of transmembrane proteins using single molecule
spectroscopy, photodynamic therapy, light scattering spectroscopy,
confocal microscopy, fluorescence imaging of gene expression,
in-vivo imaging, real-time pathology, image restoration,
super-resolution of retinal images
|
Prof.
Andrew Berger
Prof.
Robert Boyd
Prof.
Philippe Fauchet
Prof.
Jim Fienup
Prof. Tom Foster
Prof.
Nicholas George
Prof.
Wayne Knox
Prof.
Duncan Moore
Prof.
Lukas Novotny
Prof.
David Williams
Prof.
Jim Zavislan |
| Fibers
& Optical
Communication |
Fibers,
lasers, fiber-optic amplifiers, silicon photonics, lightwave
system design, photonic crystal fibers, slow-light techniques,
simulated light scattering, soliton propagation
|
Prof.
Govind Agrawal
Prof.
Robert Boyd
Prof.
Tom Brown
Prof.
Nicholas George
Prof. Wayne Knox |
| Image
Science &
Systems |
Quantum
imaging, image reconstruction and restoration wavefront
sensing, lensless coherent imaging, phase retrieva, phase-error
correction, sparse-aperture and segmented-aperture optical
systems, Fourier transform spectroscopy |
Prof.
Miguel Alonso
Prof. Robert Boyd
Prof.
Tom Brown
Prof.
Lukas Novotny
Prof. Jim Fienup
Prof.Nicholas
George |
| Nano
Optics |
Light-matter
interactions on the subwavelength scale, near-field optical
spectroscopy, single molecule studies, nanostructured materials
for sensing applications |
Prof.
Lukas Novotny |
| Nonlinear
Optics |
Nonlinear
optics of metals, extreme nonlinear optics in intense fields,
ultrafast material processing, BEC, single photon detection,
entanglement, slow light and fast-light, quantum imaging,
composite photonic materials |
Prof.
Govind Agrawal
Prof. Nick Bigelow
Prof.
Robert Boyd
Prof. Chunlei Guo
Prof.
Wayne Knox |
Optical
Fabrication
& Testing |
Mechanics
and chemistry of polishing, magnetorheological finishing,
interferometry
|
Prof.
Stephen Jacobs
Prof.
Jim Zavislan |
| Optical
Engineering
& Design |
liquid
crystal optics, opto-mechanics, tolerancing, optical system
analysis, optical metrology and system alignment by phase
retrieval
|
Prof.
Tom Brown
Prof. Jim Fienup
Prof. Stephen Jacobs
Prof.
Duncan Moore
Prof.
Jim Zavislan |
| Optical
Materials |
Plasmonic
materials for light localization and guiding, carbon nanotubes,
semiconductors, quantum wells and quantum dots, nanocomposite
materials |
Prof.
Robert Boyd
Prof.
Tom Brown
Prof. Lukas Novotny
Prof.
Gary Wicks |
Optoelectronics
&
Lasers
|
Semiconductor
epitaxial structures for lasers and optical detectors |
Prof.
Tom Brown
Prof. Gary Wicks |
| Physical
Optics |
Optical
system diffractive modelling, phase retrieval, wavefront
measurement |
Prof.Miguel
Alonso
Prof.
Tom Brown
Prof. Jim Fienup
Prof.
Nicholas George |
| Quantum
Optics |
Quantum
coherence, quantum noise, dark states, entanglement, quantum
control, wave packets, multiphoton processes, cavity QED,
nonlinear pulse propagation, quantum information, BEC, laser
cooling and trapping, photon detection, quantum imaging
|
Prof.
Govind Agrawal
Prof. Nick Bigelow
Prof.
Robert Boyd
Prof.
Joe Eberly
Prof.
Carlos Stroud |
| Ultrafast
Optics & High-Field Sciences |
supercontinuum
generation, mode-locked lasers, solitons, ultrafast dynamics
in solids, atoms and molecules in
strong fields, high-energy-density matter, laser plasmas,
femtosecond laser ablation, ultrafast
lasers
|
Prof.
Govind Agrawal
Prof.
Chunlei Guo
Prof.
Wayne Knox |
