Research Highlights

The advent of femtosecond Ti:Sapphire lasers in the 1990s leads to the first demonstration for attosecond light in 2001. With commercially available lasers centered at

Wide-field epi-illumination fluorescence microscopy is an indispensable tool in many biological studies due to its high sensitivity  and high specificity (Fig. 1). Especially, single- molecule 

Much research has been carried out to produce nanoparticles of various materials due to their excellent mechanical, chemical, electrical, and optical properties. However, it is

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