Photonics and Electrophysics Research at UMD

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Photonics and Electrophysics Research at UMD

• October 27, 2005

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What is Electrophysics?

• Optics and Photonics
• Nonlinear Optics
• Nanophotonics, Surface Plasmons
• Optical Communication, Fiber Optics
• Lasers and Quantum Electronics
• Ultrafast Optics
• Optoelectronics
• Biophotonics and Optical Sensors
• Magnetics
• Microwave and RF
• High power microwave generation
• Microwave modeling and design
• RF photonics and Phased Array Antennas
• Wireless communication
• Charged Particle Beams Plasma Physics
• Free electron lasers
• Gyrotrons, Gyroklystrons
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

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Who are we?
Vic Granatstein
Tom Antonsen
Pat OShea
Chris Davis
Howard Milchberg
Tom Murphy
Chi Lee
Wes Lawson
Julius Goldhar
Ed Ott
Ping-Tong Ho
Mario Dagenais
Kawthar Zaki
Mel Gomez
Moon-Jhong Rhee
Isaak Mayergoyz
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Photonics Research Laboratory

• Optical Signal Processing, Nonlinear Optics
• High speed clock recovery
• Optical sampling
• All-optical switching and demultiplexing
• Short pulse generation
• Nanophotonics
• Waveguide technology
• Bragg grating structure
• Modeling and Simulation
• Integrated waveguide simulation and modeling
• Nonlinear effects in optical fiber

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Optical Signal Processing Applications

• (Controlling light with light)

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Nanophotonics and Waveguide Optics
SiO2 channel waveguides, with Bragg gratings
Silicon ridge waveguides with Bragg gratings
223 nm Bragg gratings
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Resonant Cavity Enhancement