Research Highlights

Ever since lasers were invented almost 60 years ago, they have been used in welding, drilling, cutting, forming and other manufacturing processes. A new generation

It has commonly been assumed that perfect crystals are paramount for the operation of frequency converters based on quadratic nonlinearity, χ(2), such as optical parametric

Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging wearable display technology with potential applications for entertainment, education, training, design, advertisement, and medical diagnostics. Both liquid crystal display

Imaging systems have grown to become ubiquitous pieces of technology found in an ever-increasing range of applications including cell phones, self-driving cars, and refrigerators that

Infrared imaging systems encompass a wide variety of technologies and applications. Technologies range from new infrared detector materials and devices to new optical materials and

Lasers operate by stimulated emission, where a single photon is emitted per electronic transition. Two photons, with combined energy matching the transition energy, can also

Chalcogenide glass (ChG) – based optical materials that transmit throughout the infrared (IR) have seen increasing use in a diverse range of infrared optical system.

Highly portable compact integrated sensors that are capable of fast response times are very attractive and in great demand for many applications in the medical

The advent of plasmonics has enabled the focusing of visible light down to few-nanometer spot sizes, more than an order of magnitude below the diff

Studying the polarization of light has been pursued for over two centuries, since Étienne Malus did the first related observations using a birefringent calcite crystal

Optical supercontinuum (SC) results from the synergy of several nonlinear and linear processes, all acting together. Supercontinuum generation is these days finding applications in biomedical

Since its invention in the late 16th Century, the optical microscope, has become an essential tool in modern biology, leading to numerous discoveries. Fluorescence is