Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon, and Nano-Photonics

Photonic Devices  

• Silicon and other Group IV integrated photonics: devices and complex circuits

• III-V and Compound Semiconductor Devices

• III-V Materials and Processing for Photonics

• Dielectric and Polymer Waveguides and Waveguide Devices

• Materials and Fabrication Technologies for Photonic Integrated Circuits

• LiNbO3 - and Other Pockels Effect based devices

• Optical isolators

• Nanophotonics:  nanostructured photonic devices

• Nanostructured photovoltaics

• Plasmonics

• Nanofabrication Technology

• Nanoscale structure characterization

Integrated Photonics Applications

• Photonic integrated circuits and optoelectronic integrated circuits;

• Application of novel fabrication and material technologies for integrated photonics

• Photonic integrated circuits for telecom and Datacom applications

• Photonic integrated circuits for optical sensing

• Novel application of photonic integrated circuits

• New functionality implemented in photonic integrated circuits

Integrated High Precision Photonics

• Frequency comb generation

• Solitons

•  Mode locked lasers

•  Ultra-narrow linewidth oscillators

• Harmonic generation

• Raman and Brillouin gain

• Super-continuum generation

• Frequency (up/down) conversion

• Infrared and ultraviolet generation

• Physics, theory and applications of linear and nonlinear processes in novel integrated structures

• Nonlinear switching, modulation, memories and logic,

• Nonlinear optics in metamaterials, and opto-mechanics.

• Quantum technology applications

• On-chip optical trapping

New Materials for Photonics

• Novel Materials for Advanced Opto-Electronics:

• Theory, Simulation and Novel Physical Insights:

• Emerging Opto-electronic Devices and Platforms