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Past Seminars

2025 Seminars

Oct 09

Optical Phased Arrays for LiDAR and Free Space Optical Communications

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 11

Advances in Low-Loss Chip-to-Chip Couplers and BSU Opportunities for Photonic Education and Prototyping

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

May 08

Closed loop precision medicine – from smart bandages to ingestible diagnostics and low cost diagnostics

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 10

Long-Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) Hyperspectral Imaging for the Standoff Detection of Trace Surface Chemicals

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 13

A 256-Channel SPAD Detector for Time-Gated fNIRS and DCS

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 13

Integrated Photonics in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN)

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 09

Practical Inverse Design of Photonic Devices

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2024 Seminars

Dec 12

Optical Neural Networks: Neuromorphic Computing and Sensing in the Optical Domain

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 14

Exploring Natural and Bio-inspired Photonic Nanostructures as Gas Sensors

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 10

FUTUR-IC: Research Solutions Towards a Sustainable Microchip Manufacturing Industry

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 12

TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD) Satellite: 200-Gbps Laser Communication from Space to Ground

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

May 09

High-throughput 3D Nanofabrication for Optics and Photonics

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 11

Monolithic, Heterogeneous and Hybrid Photonic Integration – There is a role for all

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 14

Silicon Photonics-Powered Coherent Biosensing

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 01

Historical Evolution and State-of-the-Art Fiber-Optic Communication Systems

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 11

Leveraging Ultra-Fast Optics to Capture Dynamic Responses of Mechanical Metamaterials

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2023 Seminars

Dec 14

Visible photonic integrated circuits: From neuroscience to quantum applications

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 09

Topologically Engineered Sources of Quantum Light

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 12

Fundamentals of Optically-Pumped Semiconductor Vertical-External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

May 11

On-Chip Petahertz Electronics: From Science to Technology

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 13

Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing with Photonics

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 09

Heteroepitaxial III-V/SiN Integrated Photonics

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 09

Enhancing and Shaping Radiation from High-Energy Particles with Nanophotonics

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Jan 12

Progress in Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits and Systems: Platforms, Devices and Applications

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2022 Seminars

Dec 08

Multimode Fiber Optics: Recent Paradigm Shifts Driving its Resurgence

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 10

Metasurface-Enhanced Optoelectronics: Directional Light Emitters and Computational Image Sensors

6:00 am - 8:00 pm

Oct 13

Advances in Flat Optics: From Metalenses to High-Volume Manufacturing for Consumer Electronics and Communications

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 08

Label-free Optical Imaging of Living Systems

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 09

Optical Communication Systems: Scaling Capacity and Energy

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

May 12

Agile Laser Transmitters and Receivers (ALTaR): Technologies for Flexible and Scalable Ultra-sensitive Free-space Optical Communications

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 14

From Ultrafast Fiber Lasers to Photothermal Material Interactions for Neuromodulation and Label-Free Imaging

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 10

Nitrides for Quantum Light Sources

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Feb 10

Integrated Lithium Niobate Photonics

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2021 Seminars

Dec 09

Evolution of Machine Learning for Photonic Research

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 11

Large-Scale Fault-Tolerant Universal Quantum Computing with Quantum Teleportation

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 14

Synopsys OptoCompiler: Electronic-Photonic Co-Design of Photonic Integrated Circuits

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 14

Next Generation Photonic Design

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 14

Multiscale Modeling and Optimization in Photonic Devices

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 09

Opportunities in Non-Hermitian and Topological Photonics: Optics at an Exceptional Point

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 10

Fundamental Performance Bounds in Nanophotonics

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

May 13

Inverse Design of Complex Meta-Optics

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 08

Infrared Detector Applications for Safe and Healthy Living

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 11

Ultraviolet Optoelectronics for a Better Living

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 11

Integrated Optical Phased Arrays: LiDAR, Augmented Reality, and Beyond

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2020 Seminars

Dec 10

Engineering and Measurement of Thermal Radiation

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Nov 12

Computational 3D Microscopy

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 10

Quantum Control of Trapped-Ions via Integrated Photonics

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Jun 11

Toward a Thinking Microscope: Deep Learning-enabled Computational Microscopy and Sensing

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

May 14

Multimaterial Fiber Devices and Fabric Systems

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Apr 16

Modem Module Development for NASA’s Orion Spacecraft: Achieving FSO Communications Over Lunar Distances

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Feb 13

Reshaping Light using Metasurfaces: from Fisheyes to Reconfigurable Optics

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Jan 09

Fast, Volumetric Imaging with Microscopes

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

2019 Seminars

Dec 12

Center for Semiconductor Modeling (CSM) – Accelerating Technology Development

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 14

From Death Rays to Laser Weapons: A History

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 16

Electro-Optic Quantum Transducers on Nanophotonic Platforms

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 18

Integrated Lithium-Niobate Photonics

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 13

Personal Experiences of a Congressional Fellow

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Feb 21

Expansion of Multi-rate Capabilities for Agile DPSK Lasercom Transceivers

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

2018 Seminars

Dec 13

Computational Optical Spectroscopy

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Oct 05

Measuring Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know About a Light Pulse

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Sep 19

New Trends of High-Throughput Forward Error Correction: Polar Coding

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 21

The Astro-Comb: A Laser Frequency Comb For Astronomical Spectrograph Wavelength Calibration And Exoplanet Detection

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 30

III-V Lasers Grown on (001) Si Emitting at Communication Wavelengths

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 10

Design and Analysis of a Nanofabricated Interferometer for Interaction-Free Measurement with Electrons

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 09

Light Complexity in Time and Space, and the Underlying Physics of Analogies

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 08

Ultrafast (100GHz) Modulation of LEDs

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 22

From Cloaking to One-Way Propagation: Applications of Metamaterials at Radio-Frequencies

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 08

Laser Communication with CubeSats

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

2017 Seminars

Dec 14

High-Resolution Retinal Imaging – Visualizing Cellular Structures In The Living Eye

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 09

Metamaterial Advances For Radar And Communications (IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecture)

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 05

Laser Communications from the Moon

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 08

Scaling Optical Networks into the Next Decade and Beyond

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 11

Biologically Inspired Soft and Fluid Optical Materials

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Apr 20

Quantum Limits of Optical Imaging

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Mar 09

Reconfigurable Plasmonics and Metamaterials

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 23

Nonlinearity-Tolerant Modulation Formats for Coherent Optical Fiber Communications

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 19

Photons over Electrons: Optical Fiber Sensors For Measuring Small Signals In Harsh Environments

5:45 pm - 7:00 pm

2016 Seminars

Dec 08

Building the First Microprocessor that Communicates using Light

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 10

Where Imperfections Lead to Opportunity: Photonic Defect-Based Devices SiC

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 13

Photonic Properties And Applications Of Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskites

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 08

Space-Division Multiplexed Optical Communications Over Multi-mode Fiber

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 16

Leveraging Advances in Computational Electrodynamics to Enable New Kinds of Nanophotonic Devices

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 12

Optical Molecular Image Guidance in Surgery & Radiation Therapy

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 07

Swept Source Lasers

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 10

Ultrafast Laser And Adaptive Optical Devices

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 11

Spectroscopy with Cold Molecules: TeV Physics and Chiral Analysis

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 14

Recent Advancement of LDPC Codes for High-Speed Optical Communications

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

2015 Seminars

Dec 08

Structured Materials and Structured Light for Quantum Photonics

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 12

Quantum Optomechanics And Quantum Heat Engines

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 08

UV Optoelectronic Devices Based on AlGaN Alloys

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 10

Quantum Cascade Laser Technology And Applications

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 29

MDM Deployment Scenario in MAN and Radio-over-fiber System

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 11

Photonics at Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Ray Wavelengths on a Table-Top

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 14

III-V Semiconductor Based Quantum Structure Infrared Photodetectors

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 09

Pathways to Ultra-Efficient Solid-State Lighting

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 12

Towards Chip-Integrated Low-Noise Lasers

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 12

Topological Photonic Crystals

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 08

High-Dimensional Modulation for Optical Fiber Communication

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

2014 Seminars

Nov 13

Development of the Chip-Scale Atomic Clock

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 09

Nonlinear Optical Imaging To Assess Metabolism In The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (a.k.a. Stem, Cancer And Fat Cells)

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 11

Strained-Germanium Nanomembranes for Group-IV Infrared Photonics

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 08

Startup Stories: Personal Observations and Other Comments

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 10

Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits for Telecommunications

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 13

Computational Imaging Flow Cytometry

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 05

Optomechanics Enabled Modulators, Oscillators and Sensors

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 09

Development and Application of Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

2013 Seminars

Nov 14

Optics at Draper Laboratory

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 10

Scaling Network Capacity by Twisting Light

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 12

Singular Nano-Photonics: Hydrodynamics-Inspired Light Trapping And Routing

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 13

Silicon Nanowires, Enabling Low Cost Photovoltaic Electricity

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 09

A View of Optical Sciences: From Basic Physics to Bio/medicine to Energy

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 11

Femtosecond Fiber Lasers – From Fundamental Mode-locking Principles to Compact High-repetition Rate Sources

6:30 am - 8:00 pm

Mar 14

Polarization in Fiber Optics

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Feb 14

Metamaterials and Opto-fluidics for Ultrasensitive Spectroscopy and Bio-detection

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 10

High-flux Table-top Coherent Soft X-ray Sources Based on High-order Harmonic Generation

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

2012 Seminars

Dec 13

Fiber Optic Sensor Networks and Monitoring Techniques

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 08

Phosphor Conversion – The True Core of Future Lighting

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Oct 11

The Physics and Engineering of Solid State Lighting: An ad-hoc mix of Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, and Lighting Design Architecture

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 13

Diamond Nanophotonics

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 14

Infrared Imaging with Quantum Wells and Superlattices

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

May 17

Silicon Integrated Optoelectronics: A Transition From Devices to Systems

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 26

High-resolution Light Emitting Diode on Silicon (LEDoS) Micro-display and High Speed GaInAs Photodetectors on Silicon

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 12

GaN-based Nanocolumn Emitters and Related Technologies

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 08

The Quantum Theory of Optical Communications

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 09

Integrated Quantum Photonics

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 12

Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Device Development At QD Vision: Bright Lights From Little Dots

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2011 Seminars

Dec 08

NanoSilicon NanoPhotonics

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 03

Organic Photovoltaics – From Materials to Product A review of Konarka’s Technology

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 01

Photo Forensics – There is More to a Picture than Meets the Eye

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Oct 13

Silicon Photonics for High Bandwidth Interconnects

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 08

Status and Challenges of Ultraviolet-C LEDs based on Group-III Nitrides

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 09

From Nanophotonic Electromagnetic Manipulations to VLSI Photonics

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

May 12

Ultra High Brightness, Wavelength Stabilized, Kw Class, Fiber Coupled, Direct-Diode Lasers

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 14

Fiber Light Sources Using Structured Beams

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 10

Graphene Nanophotonics and Nanoelectronics

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 10

III-V Quantum Structures for Infrared Detection

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 13

Frequency Combs: From the Laboratory to the Mountain

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2010 Seminars

Dec 09

Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 04

Black Silicon: A Path to IR CMOS

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 14

Diamond Nanotechnology: The Diamond Nanowire Single Photon Antenna

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 28

Terahertz Technology for Space and Earth Applications

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Sep 16

Electrophoretic ePaper Display Technology and Applications

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 10

Sensing: A Unified Perspective For Integrated Photonics

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 13

The World of Optical Materials – Including a Look into Schott’s Closet

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 08

Shaping Light: MEMS Deformable Mirrors for Microscopes and Telescope

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Mar 11

Hybrid Optical Sensors for Extreme Temperature Measurement in Next Generation Higher Efficiency Greener Power Plants

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Feb 11

Next-Generation Optical Tools for Biomedical Applications

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 14

Microwave Photonics for Analog Front Ends

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2009 Seminars

Dec 10

Modern Atomic Engineering: Building Better Optoelectronics from the Atoms Up

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 12

Optical and Electronic Signal Processing for Fiber-Optic Communications

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 15

Overview of the Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 10

Harvesting Light Force in Silicon Devices

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 11

High speed optical systems – the road to 100G

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

May 14

The Roles for Optics in Cancer Imaging and Therapy

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 09

CMOS Photonics

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 12

Macrophotonics: Why Smaller Isn’t Always Better

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 12

Subwavelength photonics: from light manipulation to quantum levitation at the nanoscale

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 08

Femtosecond Combs

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

2008 Seminars

Dec 11

Nonlinear Optics at the Nanoscale

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 20

Recent Advances in Atomic Spin Magnetometry

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 09

Optical Signal Processing By Fiber-Based Parametric Devices

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 11

Seeing The Invisible: Polarization Vision in Nature and Non-Invasive Imaging and Sensing

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 12

Quantum Imaging

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 08

Applications of Slow and Stopped Light

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 10

New Forms of Matter – Created, Manipulated and Observed with Laser Light

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 13

Recent Results in Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 14

Advances in Real-time 3D Imaging, Display, and Visualization

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 10

Manipulating Microcavities With Optical Forces And Potentials: Toward Self-Aligning “Smart” Microcavities And Picometer-Scale Optomechanical Control

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

2007 Seminars

Nov 08

Compact High Repetition Rate Soft X-Ray Lasers: A Doorway To High Intensity Coherent Soft X-Ray Science On A Table-Top

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 11

Semiconductor Lasers: From the Ultrafast to the Ultrasmall

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 13

Energy Transfer and Light Emission from Erbium-doped Silicon Nanostructures

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 14

Nanophotonic devices for communication and sensing

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

May 10

Interfacing the Brain With Micro- and Optoelectronics: Not Just Another Interconnect Challenge

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 12

Waveguide-Integrated, Antenna-Coupled Tunnel Junction Detectors at 1.5 um

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 08

RF Performance of Fiber-Optic Links

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 08

Silicon Wire Photonics-Fiber on a Chip

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Jan 11

Nitride Semiconductor LEDs

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

2006 Seminars

Dec 14

Electromagnetic Metamaterials

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 09

Silicon-based Light Emitting Nanomaterials and Photonic Structures

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 12

High-speed Photon-efficient Lasercom Transceivers

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 18

Applications of optical tweezers to optofluidics

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 18

Optofluidics: The role of fluids in tuning optical systems

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 08

CANARY Sensor for Rapid, Sensitive Identification of Pathogens

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

May 11

PhlatLight: a unique high-brightness solid-state light source

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 13

Silicon Lasers

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Mar 09

Biomedical Imaging Using Optical Coherence Tomography

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 09

Optical MEMS: Manipulating light signals with microactuators

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jan 16

Photon Counting Microdetectors and their Applications

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2005 Seminars

Dec 01

A Tutorial on Strained Quantum-Well and Quantum-Dot Lasers: What do those experiments really mean

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Nov 10

Carbon nanotubes: Optical properties and applications

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Oct 13

Imaging of Semiconductor and Biological Systems

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Sep 08

Solid State Lighting in Architecture

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jul 18

Breakthroughs in Laser Bar Component Packaging & Self-Cooled Laser Diode Arrays

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Jul 18

OSRAM Shines a Light on Solid-State LEDs

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jun 09

Verizon’s Fiber to The Premises Deployment: Lessons learned

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

May 12

Biological imaging with nonlinear microscopy

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Apr 14

Nanostructured Superconductive Single-Photon Detectors for Quantum Information Processing

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 11

The Future of Industrial Strength Lithography

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Apr 11

Maskless Lithography and Imaging using Diffractive Optics

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Mar 17

Integrated Electronic/Optical Structures for Ultrafast Optical Signal Processing

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Feb 10

Laser Beam Combining

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Jan 11

Infrared Colloidal Quantum Dot Devices

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

2004 Seminars

Dec 09

Quantum cascade lasers from basic physics to commercialization

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Mar 11

Silicon Resonant Cavity Photodetector Arrays for Optical Interconnects

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm