Research

Research Interests

• Nanophotonics and Plasmonics devices
• Spinplasmonics
• Biophotonics
• Terahertz (THz) radiation and THz photonics
• Ultrafast lasers and ultrafast optics
• Nano-optics, nanotechnology
• High-speed optoelectronics
• Ultrashort laser/semiconductor interaction
• Non-linear optics
• Optical-optical switching
• Magneto-optic devices
• Ultrahigh frequency electromagnetic wave propagation and detection
• Modeling of high-speed photonic devices
• Nanomedicine

Laser, Optical, Nanofabrication Facilities

• 8 femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser
• 10 femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser
• 20 femtosecond Ti:Sapphire amplifier (1mJ)
• ultrafast optical parametric amplifier for 260 nm to 10 micron tunability
• two 5-W Ar lasers
• 2-W CW Ti:sapphire laser
• 20 GHz sampling oscilloscope
• magneto-optic and electro-optic sampling systems
• Advanced nanofabrication facilities