Faculty
Martin Fejer: Senior Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of Applied Physics
Professor Fejer’s group focuses on nonlinear and guided-wave optics as well as novel nonlinear optical materials and their device applications. Particular areas of interest are the use of microstructured nonlinear optical materials to perform optical signal processing and efficient wavelength conversion for telecom applications. In collaboration with Professor Kahn’s group, Fejer’s group is developing wavelength converters for mid-IR optical communications.
David A. B. Miller: W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics
Professor Miller’s group performs research on the use of optics in switching and interconnection systems as well as exploring the fundamental limits for optics in interconnections. Particular areas of interest are quantum well and nanophotonic optics and optoelectronics. Miller’s group has developed, in collaboration with Harris’s group, new high speed reflective modulators based on Ge quantum wells that are compatible with Si substrates. This provides a pathway to the achievement of monolithically integrated Si chips that combine CMOS electronics with high performance optical interconnects.
W.E. Moerner: Harry S. Mosher Professor of Chemistry and Professor, by courtesy, of Applied Physics
The Moerner lab specializes in the detection, spectroscopy, imaging, and trapping of individual fluorescent molecules in a range of environments, from liquids to polymers to living cells. By following single molecules, no ensemble averaging is necessary, and specific biological processes can be examined, one at a time. Current work involves trapping of biomolecules in solution with the ABEL trap without optical forces or tweezers, explorations of bacterial cell regulatory proteins and how their localization patterns control development, molecular chaperonins assisting protein folding, and novel single-molecule fluorophores.
Daniel Palanker: Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
Professor Palanker's group studies mechanisms of interaction of electric field with biological cells and tissues in a broad range of frequencies - from electrostatics to optics, and develops their diagnostic, therapeutic and prosthetic applications. Optical mechanisms of interaction involve multiphoton ionization and photo-thermal interactions including explosive vaporization, cavitation, cellular hyperthermia. Effects of quasi-static electric field on biological cells include neural stimulation, electroporation, vascular stimulation and plasma-mediated discharges.
Therapeutic applications include surgical technologies with cellular precision based on pulsed plasma-mediated interactions and computer-guided laser therapy. We also study effects of retinal migration and plasticity following the photocoagulation. We develop optoelectronic retinal prosthesis for restoration of sight to blind patients with retinal degeneration. This project involves development of photosensitive subretinal implants, studies of retinal response to patterned electrical stimuli, effects of cellular migration and retinal rewiring following subretinal implantation of 3-dimensional structures.
Alberto Salleo: Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Professor Salleo’s group performs research on novel materials and processing techniques for large-area and flexible electronic/photonic devices. Materials systems of interest include thin films of polymeric semiconductors, nano-structured materials, and amorphous materials with particular emphasis on defects and structure/property studies. His group is developing ultra-fast laser processing techniques for patterning of materials used in electronics and photonics.
Mark Schnitzer: Assistant Professor of Applied Physics and Biological Sciences
Professor Schnitzer’s research group studies optical imaging and cerebellar neural circuits. By combining imaging, electrophysiological, behavioral, and computational approaches, the Schnitzer group seeks to understand cerebellar dynamics underlying learning, memory, and forgetting. The group focuses on classical eyeblink conditioning, a form of associative memory that depends on cerebellar function. The Schnitzer group has shown that they can image in live mice large number of Purkinje neurons, which are thought to be associated with learning and memory. The Schnitzer group has invented two forms of fiber optic imaging, one- and two-photon fluorescence microendoscopy, which enable in vivo imaging of blood.
Krishna Shenoy: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Neurosciences
Professor Shenoy heads the Neural Prosthetic Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. His research group conducts neuroscience (systems & cognitive neuroscience) and neuroengineering (electrical, bio, and biomedical engineering) research. Professor Shenoy’s group investigates the neural basis of sensorimotor integration and coordination, and designs neural prosthetic systems to assist disabled patients.
Stephen Smith: Professor of Molecular and Cell Physiology
Professor Smith’s group studies brain development and function. The group’s special interests include dynamic and structural aspects of synaptogenesis, neural circuit formation and synaptic plasticity. Dr. Smith’s group develops and uses sophisticated optical imaging techniques to study neural cells in cultures, tissues and intact organisms. Recent projects have addressed the dynamic relationships between dendrite growth and synapse formation, and the patterning of neural response to visual stimulation during early brain development.
Olav Solgaard: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Professor Solgaard’s group focuses on optical micromechanical devices and applications. Particular areas of interest are optical networks, optical switches, photonic crystals, optical MEMS and fabrication technology for microoptical devices and systems. In telecommunications, the Solgaard group develop wavelength selective switching networks, and collaborate with Professor Fan’s group on the design of tunable filters based on photonic bandgap crystals with MEMS actuators.
Jelena Vuckovic: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Professor Vuckovic’s group performs experimental and theoretical research in nanoscale and quantum photonics. Particular areas of interest are photonic crystal devices and integration, solid state photonic quantum information technologies, and associated nanofabrication technology. Vuckovic’s group recently developed ultra-fast photonic crystal nanolasers with 100 GHz response, and quantum dot-photonic crystal cavity single photon sources for quantum cryptography. In collaboration with the Miller and Harris groups, Dr. Vuckovic’s group works on silicon-based lasers.
Stanford Photonics Research Center
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Email: photonics@stanford.edu
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