Our Research
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Our current research brings materials science back into the mainstream of fiber design by engineering fibers that that have the potential for disruptive influence. Only by coupling materials science and engineering with electromagnetics will optical fiber capabilities sharply improve in the next decade. This will enable the incredible potential of optical fiber based systems, some of which I am actively pursuing: spectroscopic and coherent lidar systems, high power fiber laser technologies, and communications systems. Our work has also led to designer fibers with unique thermo-mechanical responses that give rise to new distributed sensing architectures. It is important to note that our work also extends other material systems, including crystalline, for next generation applications that rely heavily on these nonlinear processes, such as integrated optical and photonic circuits.
Research Areas
- Coherent optics/imaging
- Lasers and optical physics
- Modeling and simulation of laser systems
- Nano-materials
- Nano-photonics
- Optical communications
- Photonic crystals
- Photonic integrated circuits (PICs)
- Radar and LIDAR
- Radio and optical wave propagation
- Remote Sensing
- Semiconductor lasers and photonic devices
Research Topics
- Electronics, Plasmonics, and Photonics
- Photonics: optical engineering and systems
- Sensing systems
Specific Examples of Current Multidisciplinary Projects
- Hypersonic acoustic wave engineering of glass optical fiber
- Bridging a gap between next generation laser sources and active sensing systems such as LIDAR
- Designing glasses and optical materials for novel optical fiber and waveguide applications including distributed sensing