Working Groups
Automotive Photonics
The Automotive Photonics Working Group specializes in exploring applications of photonics technology in the automobile industry, specifically the next generation of imaging, ranging/sensing devices, instrument displays, as well as high power laser systems for manufacturing. These technologies are intended to provide enhanced driver vision systems (night vision, vision in hazardous conditions, etc.), enhanced vehicle cockpit display systems, collision avoidance, lane departure warnings, parking assist systems, and advanced photonics technology for autonomous vehicle navigation.
Entrepreneurship
Many SPRC faculty and students are interested in starting their own photonics companies. This working group provides a forum for discussing general issues critical to the formation of new commercial enterprises as well as challenges of particular importance to startups in the photonics area. Throughout the year this working group organizes seminars on setting up corporate structure, elements of attracting capital and negotiating funding, and effective intellectual property protection and management. The group also invites leading Silicon Valley photonics entrepreneurs and investors to meet with students and faculty to discuss their careers and experiences.
Information Technology
The Information Technology Working Group specializes in the study of novel materials, device concepts and system configurations for the next generation of photonics information technology, which will harness the power of optics for interconnection, information storage, quantum encryption and quantum computing.
Integrated Photonics
The Integrated Photonics Working Group specializes in the study of new materials, device concepts, and systems configurations to make possible integrated photonics for the next generation of photonics-enabled consumer products which must have high performance, low cost, manufacturability in volume, reliability, ruggedness and ease of use.
Lasers and Nonlinear Optics
Faculty members of the Lasers and Nonlinear Optics Working Group specialize in the design of novel laser systems and applications, nonlinear optical processes, materials, and devices. Stanford University researchers at the Ginzton Lab have been renowned pioneers in these areas for many decades. Recent research in this working group includes fundamental research in new materials, such as very high power laser glass ceramic active medium and far infrared nonlinear materials, which have long been a hallmark of Quantum Electronics research at Stanford.
Microscopy
The Microscopy and Molecular Imaging Working Group specializes in the development of novel imaging instruments and molecular reagents for the study of cells, tissues, and living organisms.
Nanophotonics
Nano-optics is a branch of quantum electronics which deals with optics at deeply subwavelength length scales. The Nanophotonics working group has developed a number of unique nanostructures which enhance the interaction of light with objects much smaller than the wavelength used to excite them. These structures include: C-apertures, quantum dots, bow-tie structures, and miniature dipole antennas. These nanostructures can be used in photolithography to create nanometer features, in magnetic recording media to dramatically increase the information storage capacity in magnetic disks, in solar energy to increase the overall efficiency of photovoltaic devices, and in biological systems to provide high resolution images.
Neuroscience
The Neuroscience Working Group specializes in the imaging of live neurons in order to determine the genesis of neuronal circuitry as well as its structure and function.
Quantum Information Science
The QIS Working Group develops quantum technologies with potential applications in communications, computation, encryption, and navigation. The group has been engaging industry in frank and well-informed discussions of the inevitable shift to quantum technologies in many areas of information technology and telecommunications, with a focus on identifying sustainable but directed strategies for bringing these quantum concepts and phenomena into commercial markets.
Solar Cell
The Solar Cell Working Group specializes in the study of novel thin-film materials and fabrication methods and device configurations for the next generation of solar cells, which must be efficient, low cost, lightweight and flexible.
Telecom
The Telecom Working Group specializes in the study of novel materials, device concepts and network configurations for the next generation of telecom technology that will bring high bandwidth connections to every home and desktop.
Ultrafast Laser Sources and Applications
The Ultrafast Laser Sources and Applications group at Stanford focuses on employing femtosecond laser sources to study atomic, molecular, solid-state, and biological systems.
Stanford Photonics Research Center
Ginzton Laboratory - AP 207 - Stanford University - Stanford, CA 94305-4088
P: 650-723-5627
F: 650-725-1822
Email: photonics@stanford.edu
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