Our group primarily focuses on basic and applied research into nonlinear and diffractive optics. This research is being used in a number of critical applications including ultra-high speed photonic networks, optical storage, 3D imaging and display.
Further details are available on the research and publications pages.
This research work is carried out using departmental facilities and the optics labs equiped with a variety of modern optical, optoelectronic and measurement equipment, including a femto-second and other tunable laser sources. The research group is directed by Prof. Yeshaiahu Fainman and consists of faculty, staff and post-doctoral researchers, as well as Ph.D. graduate student members . We have a weekly group seminar meeting as well as individual research project meetings . The group does collaborative work with other faculty members and researchers in the school of engineering and the medical school at UCSD . Furthermore, we have outside academic and industrial collaborations on several projects.