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Research Programs
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- University of Arizona, Tucson
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of California, San Diego
University of Arizona
Robert Norwood
My long-term research goals are to further the understanding and performance of organic and polymeric materials for photonics and electronics applications. Ongoing projects exist in electro-optic polymers and devices, photorefractive polymers, polymer/nanoparticle composites, sol-gels, materials for linear and nonlinear photonic crystals, magneto-optic polymers, tunable optical filters, organic light emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, and third order nonlinear optical materials and devices. Additional research interests include engineered dielectric materials, materials for advanced photolithography, and precise measurement of thin film linear optical properties.
Nasser Peyghambarian
Polymer optoelectronics, photorefractive polymers, organic optical modulators, solgel and hybrid materials and devices, light emitting diodes and lasers. Photonic crystal fibers, organic-in-filled holey fibers, optical telecommunication, fiber optics, fiber amplifiers and fiber lasers, integrated optics, and femtosecond laser spectroscopy.
Franko Kueppers
High-speed TDM and high-capacity WDM fiber-optic transmission technologies, photonic telecommunication systems, optical transport networks.
Hyatt Gibbs
Fundamental physics of semiconductor quantum-confined structures; nonlinear optical phenomena; molecular-beam-epitaxial growth of Ga,Al,ln,As heterostructures; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; optical instabilities; nonlinear etalons and waveguides; optical nonlinearities.
Berkeley
Connie Chang-Hasnain (Note: Link opens a PDF file)
Nanostructured Materials Synthesis and Nano-Optoelectronic Devices, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers and Optoelectronic Devices, Optoelectronic Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (O-MEMS), Molecular Beam Epitaxial and Metal-Organic Vapor Deposition Growth and Fabrication Techniques, Biosensing and Biophotonics
Ming Wu
Optical MEMS, Nanophotonics, Biophotonics, Optoelectronics, Microwave Photonics.
UCSD
George Papen
Advanced photonic systems including optical communication systems, optical networking, and environmental and atmospheric remote sensing.
Joseph Ford
Transparent fiber optic and free-space optical communication networks, dynamic planar and volume holography, physical and geometrical optics, and optoelectronic device packaging.
Shaya Fainman
Optical Communications and Interconnections; Nanophotonics; Ultrafast Optics; Optical Information Processing Systems; Nonlinear and Diffractive Optics; Coherence Properties of Optical Field Scattered from a Moving Phase Screen; Photonic Networks; Optical Storage
