Optics Faculty at the University of Colorado

Frank Barnes, ECE
- Optoelectronic devices
- Optical communications, fiber optics
Thomas Cathey, ECE, OCS: (retired from teaching)
- Advanced Imaging, passive ranging, focus invariant systems
- Optics and Holography
Arnoldo Majerfeld
- III-V Semiconductor nano-structures for optoelectronic devices
Alan Mickelson, ECE
- Guided wave optics, microwave optics
- optical metrology
Garret Moddel, ECE, OCS: ECOT240, on leave 2001-2003
- Thin-film optoelectronic devices.
- Infrared and high-speed detectors.
Woun Park
- Nanoscale Photonics Materials & Devices, Self-assembly of nanoparticles
- Theoretical modeling of PBG
- Optical Spectroscopy of Luminescent Materials
Rafael Piestun, ECE
- Microoptics and Nanooptics, Diffractive Optics, Unconventional Imaging
- Ultrafast Optics and Multidimensional Light Fields
Bart Van Zeghbroeck, on leave 2001-2003
- Microfabrication Optical MEMS devices
- Silicon Optoelectronics
- Multimedia educational models for optoelectronics
Kelvin Wagner , (PI MURI in RF photonics) , ECE, OCS
- RF Photonics, radar signal processing and imaging
- Optical Processing, Computing, Neural networks
- Nonlinear Optics, Photon Echoes, Optical Solitons
Zoya Popovic, ECE
- Quasi optical antennas, optical control of RF devices and arrays

Dana Anderson (Director OSEP program)
- Real-time holographic systems, optical sensing, and atom optics.
Noel Clark (Director FLC MRC)
- Liquid Crystal Physics, Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals.
Tracy Clement, (NIST)
- ultrashort pulse laser systems, linear and nonlinear optical properties of materials
Eric Cornell
- Laser Cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation
Steve Cundiff, JILA, Adjoint ECE
- Optical properties of Semiconductors and quantum wells, ultrafast lasers and spectroscopy
Douglas Franzen
- Short pulse waveforms, Optical fibers
Alan Gallagher
- Laser spectroscopy, optical soliton in resonant gases
Sydney Geltman
- multiple photon absorption, and laser-induced collision processes
Sarah Gilbert (NIST)
- Fiber gratings, fiber lasers, wavelength standards for optical communications.
Chris H. Greene
- photon-atom interactions, spectrum of hydrogen
John Hall , JILA
- laser stabilization and measurement techniques, optical squeezing
Leo Hollberg , (NIST)
- laser physics, laser diodes, optical frequency synthesis.
Henry Kapteyn, JILA, Adjoint ECE
- Ultrafast lasers
Margaret Murnane, Physics, Adjoint ECE
- Ultrafast lasers
- high-order nonlinear optics, x-rays
Carl E. Wieman
- laser spectroscopy, laser trapping and cooling, Bose-Einstein condensation.
Jun Ye - Ye-Hall Labs
- Precision optical metrology, ultra-sensitive laser spectroscopy
- quantum optics using cold atoms

David Jonas , Chemistry
- ultrafast time resolved spectroscopy, heterodyned photon echoes
Carl Lineberger Chemistry, JILA
- interaction of radiation with ions, photodissociation with pulsed lasers.
Josef Michl
- photochemistry, photophysics, and spectroscopy of reactive organic species and organosilicon compounds
- laser spectroscopy of gaseous cluster ions
David Nesbit JILA, NIST, Chemistry,
- laser spectroscopy and dynamics of molecules.
- nonlinear frequency generation, CW and pulsed laser technology.
Dava Walba
- Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
- Second Harmonic Generation
Kevin Peters
- picosecond laser spectroscopy, ultrafast Ti:Sapphire laser system

Mark J. Ablowitz
- Nonlinear wave equations, optical solitons, inverse scattering theory