Optics and Photonics Lab
Optics and Photonics Faculty
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Pallab Bhattacharya Address: 2306 EECS Phone: (734) 763-6678 Fax: (734) 763-9324 Email: pkb@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D.U-Sheffield Title: Charles M. Vest Distinguished University Professor; James R. Mellor Professor of Engineering; Research Interests: Molecular beam epitaxy, low-dimensional quantum confined systems, quantum dot lasers and detectors, optoelectronic integrated circuits, spintronic devices. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Quantum Science and Devices; Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology. Areas of Specialty: Optoelectronics; Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics with Quantum Confined Heterostructures; High Frequency Devices and Circuits; Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics with Quantum Confined Heterostructures; Materials for Solid State Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices. |
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Tal Carmon Address: 3105 ERBI Phone: (734) 615-2749 Fax: (734) 763-4876 Email: tcarmon@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Title: Assistant Professor; Research Interests: Photonic micro electro mechanical systems, visible on-chip emitters, and harnessing radiation pressure for opto-mechanical applications. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics. Areas of Specialty: Nonlinear Optics and MEMS; Nanophotonics. |
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Jeffrey A. Fessler Address: 4431 EECS Phone: (734) 763-1434 Fax: (734) 763-8041 Email: fessler@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph. D. Stanford Title: Professor, Biomedical Engineering; Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Professor, Radiology; Research Interests: Statistical signal and image processing; Tomographic imaging; Parameter estimation; Inverse problems in optical imaging including digital holography, polarimetry, and THz imaging Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Signal and Image Processing. Areas of Specialty: Computational Imaging and Inverse Problems; Compressive Sampling and Sensing. |
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Stephen R. Forrest Address: 2238 EECS Phone: (734) 936-2680 Email: stevefor@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. University of Michigan Title: Vice President for Research; William Gould Dow Professor of Electrical Engineering; Research Interests: Organic Electronics, Photonic Integrated Circuits, Photonic Materials Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Quantum Science and Devices; Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology; Energy Science and Engineering. Areas of Specialty: Optoelectronics; Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics with Quantum Confined Heterostructures; Displays and Detectors; Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics with Quantum Confined Heterostructures; Materials for Solid State Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices; Solid-State Energy Conversion Technologies; Renewable Energy (Solar Cells, Wind, Energy Scavenging). |
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Almantas Galvanauskas Address: 6102 ERB I Phone: (734) 615-7166 Fax: (734) 647-2718 Email: almantas@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. Royal Institute of Tech. Sweden Title: EECS Professor; Research Interests: Fiber optics, fiber lasers and amplifiers, ultrafast lasers and amplifiers, nonlinear optics, electrically poled ferroelectric materials, semiconductor lasers, integrated optics Research Areas: Optics and Photonics. Areas of Specialty: Ultrafast Optics; Fiber and Integrated Photonics and Lasers. |
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L. Jay Guo Address: 2304 EECS Phone: (734) 647-7718 Fax: (734) 763-9324 Email: guo@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. University of Minnesota Title: Professor, EECS, Macromolecular Science & Eng., ME; Research Interests: Polymer-based photonic devices and sensor applications, organic photovoltaics, plasmonic nanophotonics/metamaterials, nanomanufacturing technologies and applications. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology. Areas of Specialty: Optoelectronics; Biophotonics; Nanotechnology and Nanofabrication. |
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Bixue Hou Address: 234 ERB II Phone: (734) 936-1167 Fax: (734) 763-4876 Email: houbx@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. Chinese Academy of Sciences China Title: Associate Research Scientist; Research Interests: High power ultrafast lasers and laser matter interactions. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics. Areas of Specialty: Ultrafast Optics. |
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Mohammed N. Islam Address: 2401 EECS Phone: (734) 647-9700 Fax: (734) 647-2718 Email: mni@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. MIT Title: EECS Professor; Professor of BioMedical Engineering; Professor of Internal Medicine; Research Interests: His current research interests include mid-infrared laser sources and their applications in fiber-to-the-home, advanced semiconductor process control, combustion monitoring, infrared counter-measures, chemical sensing and bio-medical selective laser ablation. Another area of this current work relates to ultra-high resolution imaging of automobile parts, such as transmissions. He also has on-going work in modulators and new architectures for fiber to the home systems. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics. Areas of Specialty: Optical Communications; Fiber and Integrated Photonics and Lasers; Optoelectronics; Biophotonics. |
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Mona Jarrahi Address: 3238 EECS Phone: (734) 647-1799 Email: mjarrahi@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. Stanford Title: Assistant Professor; Research Interests: Radio Frequency (RF), Microwave, Millimeter-wave, and Terahertz Circuits, High Frequency Devices and Circuits, Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics Research Areas: Applied Electromagnetics; Optics and Photonics; Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology; Integrated Circuits and VLSI. Areas of Specialty: Terahertz Technology and Applications; Analog Circuits; Data converters; Sensing systems. |
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Pei-Cheng (P.C.) Ku Address: 2245 EECS Phone: (734) 764-7134 Email: peicheng@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. Univ. of California at Berkeley Title: Associate Professor; Research Interests: Optoelectronic devices and materials Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology; Energy Science and Engineering. Areas of Specialty: Optoelectronics; Nanophotonics; Materials for Solid State Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices; Solid-State Energy Conversion Technologies; Renewable Energy (Solar Cells, Wind, Energy Scavenging). |
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Mark J. Kushner Address: 2236 EECS Phone: (734) 647-8148 Email: mjkush@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. California Institute of Technology Title: Director, Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering; George I. Haddad Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Professor, EECS, NERS, Chemical Eng, and Applied Physics; Research Interests: Plasma science and technology: materials processing, propulsion, lasers, electromagnetics, plasma chemistry, microelectronics/MEMS fabrication, polymer funtionalization, biocompatibility Research Areas: Applied Electromagnetics; MEMS and Microsystems; Optics and Photonics; Quantum Science and Devices; Integrated Circuits and VLSI; Plasma Science and Engineering; Energy Science and Engineering. Areas of Specialty: Computational Electromagnetics; Microfluidics and Gas/Chemical; MEMS Technology and Packaging; Optoelectronics; Plasma Fabrication and Plasma Based MEMS Devices; Plasma Materials Processing of Microelectronics; Plasma Science and Engineering; Plasma Fabrication and Plasma Based MEMS Devices; Solid-State Energy Conversion Technologies; Plasma Science & Engineering. |
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Theodore B. Norris Address: 6117 ERB I Phone: (734) 764-9269 Fax: (734) 763-4876 Email: tnorris@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. U-Rochester Title: Director, Center for Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials (C-PHOM); Professor, EECS and Applied Physics; Research Interests: Research interests include application of femtosecond optical techniques to the physics of semiconductor nanostructures, in developing new ultrafast optical and optoelectronic measurement techniques, THz generation and measurement, plasmonics in nanostructures, and novel methods for biological imaging and in vivo sensing. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Energy Science and Engineering. Areas of Specialty: Ultrafast Optics; Optoelectronics; Nanophotonics; Biophotonics; Renewable Energy (Solar Cells, Wind, Energy Scavenging). |
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Jamie D. Phillips Address: 2405 EECS Phone: (734) 764-4157 Fax: (734) 763-9324 Email: jphilli@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. University of Michigan Title: Associate Professor; Research Interests: Compound semiconductor and oxide materials for electronic and optoelectronic devices. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology; Energy Science and Engineering. Areas of Specialty: Optoelectronics; Materials for Solid State Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices; Solid-State Energy Conversion Technologies; Renewable Energy (Solar Cells, Wind, Energy Scavenging). |
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Stephen Rand Address: 3102 ERB I Phone: (734) 763-6810 Fax: (734) 763-4876 Email: scr@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. U-Toronto Title: Professor, EECS and Physics ; Research Interests: Solid-state laser materials, Laser spectroscopy, Optical physics, Condensed matter physics, Optical magnetism, and Optical refrigeration, Upconversion and fiber lasers. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Quantum Science and Devices; Energy Science and Engineering. Areas of Specialty: Nonlinear Optics and MEMS; Fiber and Integrated Photonics and Lasers; Quantum Optics and Information; Nanophotonics; Quantum Optics and Information; Magneto-Electric Energy Conversion of Light. |
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John C. Schotland Address: 4846 East Hall Phone: (734) 936-2571 Fax: (734) 763-0937 Email: jcsch@umich.edu Degree: M.D./Ph.D University of Pennsylvania Title: Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Professor of Mathematics; Research Interests: Theoretical optical physics, biomedical imaging, nano-optics. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics. |
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Duncan Steel Address: 3117 ERB I Phone: (734) 764-2386 Fax: (734) 763-4876 Email: dst@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. U-Michigan Title: Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Biophysics Program; Robert J. Hiller Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Senior Research Scientist, Inst. of Gerontology; Research Interests: Laser spectroscopy, Optical physics, Condensed matter physics, Biophysics, Quantum Computing. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Quantum Science and Devices; Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology. Areas of Specialty: Ultrafast Optics; Quantum Optics and Information; Nanophotonics; Biophotonics; Quantum Optics and Information; Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics with Quantum Confined Heterostructures; Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics with Quantum Confined Heterostructures. |
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Herbert Winful Address: 3106 ERB Phone: (734) 647-1804 Fax: (734) 763-4876 Email: arrays@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. USC Title: Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Research Interests: Nonlinear optics and photonics; Fiber laser arrays; Nonlinear periodic structures; Tunneling time; Nanophotonics Research Areas: Optics and Photonics. Areas of Specialty: Nonlinear Optics and MEMS. |
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Kim A. Winick Address: 4423 EECS Phone: (734) 764-5203 Fax: (734) 763-8041 Email: winick@eecs.umich.edu Degree: Ph.D. U-Michigan 1981 Title: EECS Professor; Research Interests: Glass/Crystal Integrated Optics, Photonics, Communication, Information Theory, Quantum Information, History of Science Research Areas: Communications; Optics and Photonics; Quantum Science and Devices. |
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Victor Yanovsky Address: 1014 ERB I Phone: (734) 647-0971 Email: vpy@eecs.umich.edu Title: Research Scientist; Research Interests: He directs the HERCULES laser - the highest intensity laser in the world, and is interested in high intensity laser physics, ultrahigh-intensity intensity interactions with solids, particle acceleration and X-ray generation in laser-matter interaction Research Areas: Optics and Photonics. Areas of Specialty: Ultrafast Optics. |
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Zhaohui Zhong Address: 2241 EECS Phone: (734) 647-1953 Email: zzhong@umich.edu Degree: Ph.D., Harvard Title: Assistant Professor; Research Interests: Nanoelectronics and nanophotonics, microwave and terahertz frequency nanoelectronics, solar cell technology, chemical and biological sensing, nanomaterial synthesis. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Quantum Science and Devices; Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology; Energy Science and Engineering. Areas of Specialty: Nanophotonics; Nanotechnology and Nanofabrication; Integrated Photonics and Optoelectronics with Quantum Confined Heterostructures; Solid-State Energy Conversion Technologies; Renewable Energy (Solar Cells, Wind, Energy Scavenging). |
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Jeramy Zimmerman Address: 2225 EECS Phone: (734) 647-5809 Email: jeramyz@eecs.umich.edu Title: Assistant Research Scientist; Research Interests: Optics and Photonics; Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology; Energy and Power. Research Areas: Optics and Photonics; Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology; Energy Science and Engineering. Areas of Specialty: Optoelectronics; Displays and Detectors; Materials for Solid State Electronic and Optoelectronic Devices; Solid-State Energy Conversion Technologies; Renewable Energy (Solar Cells, Wind, Energy Scavenging). |