Photonics at Stanford University

Photonics research at Stanford University is strongly interdisciplinary, and includes the fields of laser optics, microscopy, neuroscience, solar cells, ophthalmology, and telecommunications, to name just a few. Find out more »

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Mark Kasevich: Professor of Physics and Applied Physics

High accuracy navigation and gravimetric sensors based on de Broglie wave interferometry; Future atom optics sensors which exploit the novel coherence properties of Bose-Einstein condensates   

Research & News

New type of retinal prosthesis could better restore sight to blind, study says

May 13, 2012

Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people who have lost vision because of certain types of degenerative eye diseases.

Science Meets Innovation at Stanford Photonics Research Center

April 1, 2010

 

It's 50 years since the birth of the laser and to mark the imminent anniversary physicsworld.com will be cranking up its coverage of photonic science, technologies and applications over the coming weeks.
 
For starters, there's our latest video exclusive, a vox pop with faculty and students at the Stanford Photonics Research Center (SPRC), part of Stanford University in California and home to one of largest photonics research programmes in the US.
 
SPRC's Ginzton Laboratory is the focal point for that programme and an interdisciplinary research team that comprises around 40 professors and 200 graduate students and postdocs. Theirs is a wide-ranging brief – SPRC working groups span information technology, telecommunications, integrated photonics, microscopy, neuroscience and solar cells – though with a common objective: to partner with industry to bring innovative photonic technologies to market.

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Membership in the Stanford Photonics Research Center is available to companies interested in establishing mutually-beneficial relationships with the Stanford photonics community. Membership fees directly support research and teaching in photonics at Stanford; in turn, members gain facilitated access to Stanford photonics students, faculty, and current and emerging areas of research at Stanford.

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