Research Overview
Research Topics
Advanced Photonics Systems
Program Director: Brenton Hoffman
This program is a "systems-oriented" focus on real-world applications.
Biophotonics
Program Director: Junjie Yao and Adam Wax
The Biophotonics Program represents a comprehensive, bottom-up approach toward non-invasive, early detection of disease where scientific and technological advances made at one level are incorporated into and drive the work at the next stage.
Nano and Micro Integrated Systems
Program Director: Nan Jokerst
This program focuses on the intersection of nano-info-bio-opto technologies into integrated systems that can impact many application areas, including medical research and diagnostic systems. The intersection of biological "wet" materials and traditional photonic "hard" materials through heterogeneous optoelectronic integration is an emerging area with applications including sensing.
Nanophotonics
Program Director: Fan Yuan
The focus of this program is the development of new technologies that can determine in real time the earliest signs of disease at the cellular level and also allow treatment of disease in a seamless fashion. Research in biomedical science and engineering at the molecular level is growing exponentially because of the availability of new investigative nanotools.
Novel Spectroscopies
Program Director: Warren Warren
This effort focuses on developing novel spectroscopic tools and techniques for application across the fields of chemistry, physics, engineering and medicine.
Photonics Materials
Program Director: Natalia Litchinitser
This program focuses new materials with important and unique value to photonics.
Quantum Optics and Information Photonics
Program Director: Jungsang Kim and David Beratan
This program focuses on cutting-edge research in quantum information that could address the critical challenges enabling secure medical data transmission for next-generation health care delivery.
Systems Modeling Techniques Theory & Data Treatment
Program Director: Weitao Yang
This program focuses on advanced photonic techniques using ultrafast lasers, multi-photon, time-resolved and phase-resolved detection techniques, polarization and lifetime measurements further extend the usefulness of molecular and cell-based assays. The effort is also cultivating a team of theoretical investigators in systems modeling and medical data treatment who will be developing the much needed mathematical models for deep tissue imaging and image construction.