NON-LINEAR OPTICS & PHOTONICS   (Rao Group) 

Experimental laser physics: nonlinear optics; medical image processing; nano- and bio-photonics; optical data storage; optical power limiting & laser eye protection. 

CONDENSED MATTER & MATERIALS  (Arnason Group)

Electronic properties of new materials, focussing on ways in which structure and the quantum mechanical corrections to the semiclassical theory of conduction modify the behavior of electrons.  

BIOMEDICAL IMAGING & SENSING  (Yelleswarapu Group)

Applications of fiber Bragg gratings for optical biosensing and biomedical imaging, and development of advanced optical microscopes/nanoscopes for investigating live cell dynamics.

QUANTUM MANY-BODY SYSTEMS  (Olchanyi Group) 

Cold atomic gases; quantum non-equilibrium dynamics; integrable systems; chaos in classical fields; scattering in restricted geometries.

QUANTUM NONLINEAR DYNAMICS  (Sundaram Group) 

Quantum and classical chaos, the quantum-to-classical transition, and the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates.  

QUANTUM MEASUREMENT & CONTROL  (Jacobs Group) 

Quantum measurement theory, quantum feedback control, the quantum-to-classical transition, and applications in nano-electro- mechanical systems.

NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS IN BIOLOGY  (Sundaram Group) 

Applications of non-linear dynamics in diverse areas of biology, including information processing in the brain, and the accoustics of whale sonar.

SEMICONDUCTOR OPTOELECTRONICS  (Sun Group) 

Group-IV and III-V semiconductors, quantum wells, quantum dots, superlattices, interband lasers, quantum cascade lasers, plasmonics, and phonon dynamics.