Lukas Novotny

Professor of Optics
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physics

Office: Wilmot Annex 101
Phone: (585) 275-5767
Fax: (585) 276-2112
E-mail: novotny@optics.rochester.edu

Short Biography
Prof. Novotny earned his Dipl. El-Ing (M.S. in Electrical Engineering) in 1992 and his Dr. sc. techn. (Doctor of Technical Sciences) in 1996, both from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. His doctoral research was in close collaboration with the IBM Research Laboratory in Switzerland and dealt with theoretical questions in near-field optics. After three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington, working on new schemes of near-field optical microscopy and single molecule spectroscopy, Prof. Novotny joined the faculty of the Institute of Optics in 1999 as an Assistant Professor. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2003 and full Professor in 2007. He holds joint appointments in Physics and Biomedical Engineering. Professor Novotny is the author of "Principles of Nano-Optics", published by Cambridge University Press.

Research
Prof. Novotny's general interest is in the area of Experimental and Theoretical Optics. He is interested in the application of optical science and technology to the study of nanoscale phenomena ranging from solid-state physics to biology. He is exploring ways to surpass the diffraction limit of classical optics and studying the physics of nanometric systems, such as quantum dots or biological proteins. By extending concepts developed in antenna theory to the optical regime, his group demonstrated chemically-specific optical imaging with spatial resolutions down to 10 nm.

For further details, go to Prof. Novotny's home page at: http://www.nano-optics.org

Courses taught by Lukas Novotny