Ultrafast Laser Sources and Applications 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.

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.

Steve Harris: Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics

Fundamentals of photonics and nonlinear optics

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.

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Ultrafast Laser Sources and Applications Faculty

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