Lasers and nonlinear Optics Faculty

Robert L. Byer: The William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor

Professor Robert L. Byer has conducted research and taught classes in lasers and nonlinear optics at Stanford University since 1969. He has made numerous contributions to laser science and technology including the demonstration of the first tunable visible parametric oscillator, the development of the Q-switched unstable resonator Nd:YAG laser, remote sensing using tunable infrared sources and precision spectroscopy using Coherent Anti Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS). Current research includes the development of nonlinear optical materials and laser diode pumped solid state laser sources for applications to gravitational wave detection and to laser particle acceleration.

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.

Michel Digonnet: Senior Research Engineer

The Digonnet group performs research on fiber optics. Previous areas of activity have included WDM fiber couplers, single crystal fibers, and integrated optics for fiber sensors. Current research interests include photonic-bandgap fibers, fiber sensors and sensor arrays, high-power ceramic lasers, fiber lasers and amplifiers, fiber gratings, slow light, and optical microcavities.

Michael Fayer: David Mulvane Ehrsam and Edward Curtis Franklin Professor of Chemistry

Dynamics and intermolecular interactions of molecules in liquids, liquids in nanoscopic environments, room temperature ionic organic liquids, supercooled liquids, and liquid crystals.

Robert Feigelson: Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Emeritus

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