Welcome to the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics

a mountain landscape at sunset with two glass-lens-shaped overlays.The colors are much more vibrant within the overlays.

| Duke Engineering

Seeing Duke in a Whole New Color

New program allows color blind Duke personnel to borrow EnChroma color enhancing glasses from the library for up to a week at a time

three people in a lab with a mannikin and security sensing equipment

| Duke Magazine

Weird Science

David Smith studies metamaterials and how they turn our understanding of physics inside out

Nimmi Ramanujam

| Duke Centennial

Duke Trailblazers: Nimmi Ramanujam

Musician, entrepreneur, educator – Nimmi Ramanujam has done it all.

Michael Fitzpatrick surrounded by fire-like light

| Duke Today

Lasers, Lenses & Light: A Showcase of Fitzpatrick Institute Photonics Research for the Community

The Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics hosted a day-long symposium and open house featuring innovative ways light is being used in fields from medicine to art

Joseph Izatt

| Duke Today

Duke Flags Lowered: Biomedical Engineering Chair Joseph Izatt Dies

Joseph Izatt, the Michael J. Fitzpatrick Professor of Engineering and chair of Duke’s Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), passed away on Sunday, April 7

The assembly wheel, designed to reflect light extremely efficiently.

| Duke Engineering

Mapping the Invisible

Duke researchers are gearing up to take advantage of the new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to explore the history (and present) phenomena of our galaxy

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FIP 2025 Sympsoium - Keynote: Nobel Laureate Dr. Bawendi

An extensively interdisciplinary Duke-wide effort to advance photonics and optical sciences

Our mission is profoundly educational. The institute was founded in 2000 to meet an industry need for graduates with the knowledge and skills to transform industrial R&D in photonics and optical science.

Our faculty teach undergraduates, masters and doctoral students and foster the technical, collaboration, interdisciplinary exploration, and team-orientation skillset that enables our proteges to thrive in their chosen professions.

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