Congratulations to Dr. Sarvenaz Memarzadeh who today defended her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Temporal Dynamics of Hot-electrons in Metal Films and Alloys". Sarvenaz was advised by Prof. Jeremy Munday, but completed…
The laboratory received and installed the new Coherent Optical Parametric Oscillator system, to accompany the Coherent Chameleon laser. The new OPO uses a fan-poled PPLN crystal to produce tunable signal…
Welcome to Yiğit Aytac, who joins the group as a postdoctoral research associate. Yiğit recently completed his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Iowa, where he used nonlinear…
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Suess, who successfully defended his thesis, entitled "Nonlinear Optics and Carrier Dynamics in Nanostructured and Two-Dimensional Materials"
Congratulations to Aaron Hagerstrom, who successfully defended his dissertation! Aaron's research during the past 5 years has been featured so far in Nature Physics, Nature Communications and PNAS.
Congratulations to Shanshan Li, who successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Silicon Based Terahertz Waveguides”. Shanshan’s research has been featured in Optics Express, Nature Nanotechnology, New Journal of Physics, IEEE…
Congratulations to J. J. Wathen, who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis this morning, entitled "Characterization of Nonlinear Waveguides for All-Optical Signal Processing".
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program has named Rafel Setra (2015) one of their 2014 scholars. Established by congress in 1986, the scholarship program is intended to "provide…
Joseph Knab's recently published paper in Optical Materials Express, entitled "Ultrafast carrier dynamics and optical properties of nanoporous silicon at terahertz frequencies" was among the most-downloaded papers in January 2014.
Rafael Setra (UMD undergraduate) today concluded a very productive 10 week research project to explore the use of chaotic phase modulation to suppress stimulated Brillouin scattering in fiber optic systems.