Advanced Photonic Materials and Devices Lab
Dr. Nasser Peyghambarian.
The Laboratory for Advanced Photonic Materials and Devices develops
materials and devices for photonics and telecommunication applications.
One current research project is the development of next generation eye
glasses using adaptive optics and electroactive polymers. Another project
involves fabrication of organic photorefractive polymers and injection
molding technology for holographic optical storage application. Study of
hybrid structures are also being conducted in which sol-gel optics are
designed and tested for applications in micro-optical elements,
waveguides, pixel arrays, DWDM components, combiners and routers, and high
speed modulators. Another project involves the study of polymer and
molecular structures in which molecular and polymeric light emitting
devices are developed with transport, fluorescent and phosphorescent
materials. An application under development is a hybrid device involving
micro-pixel CMOS driven OLED.
This research is partially supported by TRIF, Arizona’s Technology &
Research Initiative Funding enterprise:
http://www.optics.arizona.edu/TRIF.
Integrated Optics
Dr. Seppo Honkanen. This
lab houses equipment for characterization of integrated optical waveguides
and devices. Students and faculty members work on a variety of projects in
which planar waveguides are developed for telecommunication and sensor
applications.
This research is partially supported by TRIF, Arizona’s Technology &
Research Initiative Funding enterprise:
http://www.optics.arizona.edu/TRIF.
 Photonics Systems Laboratory
Dr. Raymond Kostuk. Research
includes ion-exchange waveguide design and fabrication for telecom and sensor
application, high performance grating design and fabrication for optical
filters, fiber optics system design, and photonic bandgap device design.
Instrumentation includes high speed fiber optic test and measurement equipment,
grating fabrication capability, a fiber optic systems simulator, BPM and FTDT
design tools, tunable lasers for telecom wavelengths, optical amplifiers, and
fiber optic components.
Photonic Telecommunication Systems
Dr.-Ing. Franko Kueppers.
Research includes Ultra-high-speed Fiber-optic Transmission (from data
rates of 10 Gbit/s/l and conventional non-return-to-zero NRZ modulation
format to 160 Gbit/s optical time division multiplexing OTDM with
return-to-zero RZ modulation), Photonic Telecommunication Systems (link
design, dispersion management, non-linear effects and solitons) and
Optical Networks (adaptive compensation technologies for chromatic
dispersion, polarization mode dispersion etc. in transparent and dynamic
WDM networks). The corresponding laboratory (Photonic Telecommunication
Systems Laboratory) is equipped with design and simulation software and a
state-of-the-art fiber-optic testbed which includes transmission (standard
mono-mode fiber SMF plus dispersion compensating fiber DCF, cw and
picosecond pulse laser sources covering the S-, C- and L-band) as well as
measurement capabilities (space resolved attenuation OTDR, chromatic
dispersion, polarization mode dispersion, bit error rate and eye analysis,
standard and high-resolution instruments for both, time and frequency
domain).This
research is partially supported by TRIF, Arizona’s Technology & Research
Initiative Funding enterprise:
http://www.optics.arizona.edu/TRIF. |