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Laboratories & Facilities
The research activities of College of Optics and Photonics (COP) faculty span the spectrum from basic science and physics of optics, photonics, and related phenomena, to prototype development and demonstration of feasibility in applications. The faculty vigorously pursue joint research projects with industry, academia, and government laboratories. The main facilities of the COP are housed in a state-of-the-art 83,000 sq. ft. building dedicated to optics and photonics research and education (a 13,000 ft2 addition will be completed in mid-2006). A sampling of laboratories in this facility is as follows:
Northrup Grumman EUV Photonics Laboratory, conducting research on X-Ray and EUV optics and sources, X-Ray microscopy, laser-aided material processing, and lasergenerated plasmas. Also referred to as the “Laser Plasma Laboratory”, the Laboratory is led by Dr. Martin Richardson.
Optical Diagnostics and Applications Laboratory, conducting interdisciplinary basic and applied research in novel optical instrumentation for 3D imaging and visualization, image analysis, and assessment methodology. Applications include medical and geophysics imaging and visualization, 3-D and wearable displays. Led by Dr. Jannick Rolland.
Infrared Systems Laboratory, conducting research on infrared detector and focal-plane analysis, optics of random media, infrared scene projection, and transfer-function techniques. Led by Dr. Glenn Boreman.
Ultrafast Photonics Laboratory, conducting research on ultrafast high power optical pulses from semiconductor diode lasers, for applications in applied photonic networks and laserinduced materials modification. Led by Dr. Peter Delfyett.
Nanophotonics Systems Fabrication Laboratory, a 3,000 ft2 multi-user facility containing Class 100 and Class 1000 clean rooms and a Leica 5000+ e-beam lithography instrument capable of 10nm resolution. These facilities are used for fabrication and study of nanostructured materials and nanophotonic integrated circuits. The Laboratory is designed and operated as a multi-user facility, with availability to companies and other outside users. Led by Dr. Dennis Deppe.
Nonlinear Optics Laboratories, conducting research on a variety of nonlinear optical effects, materials, and devices including nonlinear interactions in waveguides, nonlinear signal processing, optical power limiting, and characterizing materials response at picosecond and nanosecond scales. Led by Dr. Eric Van Stryland and Dr. David Hagan.
Laser Aided Materials Processing Laboratories, investigating understanding of the interaction of lasers with absorbing and non-absorbing materials, growth, solidification, and plasma effects; laser CVD; laser ablation, laser drilling, cutting, welding; developing process-monitoring and diagnostic techniques. Led by Dr. Stephen Kuebler (NPM) and Dr. Martin Richardson (LPL).
Diffractive and Holographic Optics Laboratory, conducting rigorous analysis, design, and demonstration of diffractive and holographic optical elements, subwavelength grating structures and their applications, E-M theory of grating diffraction, holographic optical information processing and storage, volume holography. Led by Dr. Leonid Glebov.
Optical Design & Image Analysis Laboratory, conducting research on Optical Design and Image Analysis, Simulation and Modeling of Optical Systems, and characterization of optical phenomena. Led by Dr. James Harvey.
Photonic Information Processing Systems Laboratory, exploring the principles of optics and information processing for solving important problems in system science relevant to academia, government, and industry. Led by Dr. Nabeel Riza.
Photonics & Display Laboratories, investigating liquid crystal displays, up-conversion processes in dielectric materials, all-optical 2- and 3-D displays, wearable displays for virtual and augmented reality. Led by Dr. Shin-Tson Wu and Dr. Jannick Rolland (ODALab).
Laser System Development Laboratories, developing new solid-state lasers, external cavity semiconductor lasers and amplifiers, seeding lasers, laser-induced damage, far infrared semiconductor lasers, high-average-power solid state lasers, semiconductor and solid state volume Bragg lasers, high power laser beam combining, ultra-high-intensity femtosecond lasers, new solid state lasers and materials development (crystals & glasses). Activities in this area are led by Dr. Michael Bass, Dr. Martin Richardson, Dr. Peter Delfyett, and Dr. Leonid Glebov.
Optical Glass Sciences & Photo-Induced Processing Laboratory, conducting studies of new materials for high-efficiency, robust holographic optical elements; high power laser beam combining, glass spectroscopy, refractometry and interferometry; photo-induced processes in glasses; technology of optical quality and high-purity glasses. Led by Dr. Leonid Glebov.
