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Welcome!
The Photonics Research Lab, lead by Thomas E. Murphy at the University of Maryland, conducts research related to integrated optics, nanophotonic devices, optical sensors, Terahertz photonics, nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, microwave photonics, and optical communication systems. Our central goal is to explore new devices and techniques that improve the speed, sensitivity, resolution, and efficiency of optical communication and sensor systems.
Some recent and ongoing projects include: design and fabrication of resonant-cavity enhanced nonlinear photodetectors for ultrafast signal processing, nonlinear dynamics in optoelectronic systems, exploration of polarization dependence in nonlinear optics, ultra-linear phase modulation techniques for high-dynamic range microwave photonic communication, porous semiconductors for biological sensing and spectroscopy. Please visit our research pages to learn more about some of these projects.
Our research is supported by the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS), and DARPA.
- August 8, 2008: Congratulations to Anqi Fu, an undergraduate student working in our laboratory, who was awarded the "Best Technical Report" award for her summer research project on fabricating nanoporous silicon optical waveguides.
- July 1, 2008: Prof. Thomas E. Murphy was named as a Keystone professor in the Clark School of Engineering.
- July 2008: Check out our recent paper from the Journal of Lightwave Technology that discusses our full-vector anisotropic optical waveguide modesolver. Many thanks to Arman and Kai who did all of the groundwork for this paper.
- June 30, 2008: The Photonics Research Laboratory bids farewell to Andrea M. Rossi, who is returning to his permanent position at L'Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica.
- June 6, 2008: Please welcome Anqi Fu, who is joining the Photonics Research Laboratory as an undergraduate researcher.
- May 28, 2008: Please attend the 4th annual IEEE Baltimore and Washington-Northern Virginia LEOS Chapter's Graduate Student Poster Competition from 6 to 8:00 pm at the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Deadline for submission of posters is May 18. For more information and submission instructions, please visit the Baltimore-LEOS website.
- April 30, 2008: Please join us at 6:30pm in AVW 2460 for a seminar entitled "RF-Photonics Research at ARL" by Dr. Weimin Zhou (ARL). This seminar is sponsored byt he Washington / Northern Virginia chapter of IEEE-LEOS.
- April 29, 2008: Prof. Thomas E. Murphy has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure.
- January 15, 2008: Anthony S. Lenihan will be presenting an invited paper describing our research at the LEOS Winter Topical Meeting in Sorrento, Italy.
- January 10, 2008: Dr. Zhifu Liu joins the Photonics Research Laboratory as a postdoctoral research associate. Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Alabama A&M University in 2001. He has most recently been conducting research in electrooptic devices at Northwestern University. He will be working to help us build novel polymer electrooptic devices for microwave photonic applications.
- January 1, 2008: We welcome Sina Firouzabadi, who joins the Photonics Research Laboratory this semester as a graduate research associate. Sina received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
- January, 2008: A new version of our optical finite-difference modesolver software (WGMODES) is available for download. This new version incorporates several features not found in the earlier versions, including the capability to model anisotropic materials.
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