By exploring how to control photons in space and time, Wang is developing techniques that will advance photonics still further. Computers will not always operate as they do now. A whole new class of photonic devices is emerging that will use optical switching and microlasers. Our work is helping lay the groundwork for those advances. Hailin Wang came to the UO in 1995 from Bell Labs, one of the largest and most productive private research laboratories in the world.
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And when you have a lot of highly skilled researchers working together from the diversity of fields brought together by this initiative, they make exciting things happen. They make important advances. These collaborations have a direct and important benefit on society, he notes. Researchers have an impressive track record for creating new and useful technology. In physics, our basic research has led to lasers, fiber optics, and super-sensitive sensors and detectors.