Photonic Materials Laboratory

People

Vera N. Smolyaninova, Associate Professor
Grace Yong, Research Associate
Undergraduate students


Research

Manganese oxides for photonic device applications

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Transformation optics
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Press Coverage

Our Experimental observation of the trapped rainbow has received extensive press coverage (hundreds of internet links in science and general news media around the world).

Press coverage on our new approach to broadband optical cloaking (hundreds of internet links in science and general news media around the world)

Facilities

  • Closed cycle optical cryostat, capable of operating in temperature ranges from 4 K to 350 K  electronic transport measurement system with c
  • Superconducting magnet system with optical access, temperature ranges from 1.5 K to 320 K, magnetic field up to 9 T
  • Electronic and magneto transport measurement systems
  • High temperature electronic measurement system
  • Custom built near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM)
  • Two CW Argon ion lasers (150 mW and 300 mW output power), He-Ne laser
  • Optical microscope equipped with CCD cameras, vibration isolation optical tables, and different optical components
  • Photo-lithography and wet etching capability
  • Thermal Evaporation System NANO 38
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