Research

The Photonics Research Lab conducts research in a wide variety of topics, including integrated optics, nanophotonic devices, optical sensors, Terahertz generation, nonlinear optics, ultrafast optics, nonlinear dynamics 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.

Below are some current and proposed research projects:

• Resonant Cavity Nonlinear Detectors for Optical Signal Processing
• Ultrafast Optical Clock Recovery Systems
• Nanoporous Silicon Waveguide-based Microcavities for Chemical and Biological Sensing
• Ultrafast Coherent Optical Signal Processing
• High-speed Optical Time-Division Multiplexed (OTDM) Communication Systems
• Optical Pulse Generation and Compression
• Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers
• Polarization Dependence in Nonlinear Optics
• Microwave Photonics
• Nonlinear Dynamics

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