Research Areas

Biophysics and Biomedical Optics

Biomedical optics is a vastly interdisciplinary field, with branches in biology, physics, medicine, computer science, and engineering. Approaching this topic from an interdisciplinary lens, biomedical optics is concerned with how light interacts with living matter broadly. Its research and applications focus on minimal-to-non-invasive surgical techniques, medicine delivery, and medical imaging.

Molecular Biophysics is a highly interdisciplinary area of research that combines concepts of physics, chemistry, and biology, and uses them to explain the functions of fundamental biological molecules such as proteins, DNA, and RNA. We offer a concentration in Molecular Biophysics at the Graduate level.

Fiber Optics and Optoelectronics

This section is still under construction.

Freeform, Micro and Nano-optics

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Laser Optics and Optical Materials

Laser optics involves the optical systems and methods that are designed for use with lasers. The field of laser optics has a broad range of applications, such as materials processing, medical surgery, microscopy, sensing, communications, range finding, and quantum technology.

Metamaterials and MetaOptics

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Numerical and Theoretical Optics

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Optical Metrology

Optical metrology is a broad, enabling technology spanning large machine vision systems used for on-line inspection of manufactured parts and the determination and characterization of physical features at the micron and sub-micron level.

Photonics

This section is still under construction.