Group Overview
Optics and photonics play an important role in science and technology, providing a versatile infrastructure for discovery on the one hand and start-of-the-art optoelectronic devices for communications, medicine and security on the other. Research in the Ultrafast Nanophotonics Group prepares students for highly skilled careers in optics and photonics technologies.
Photonics is the study of light-matter interactions and is one of the many areas of science that has benefited from the invention of the laser. Lasers are intense, directional and coherent light sources that can probe, modify and control the optical and electronic properties of matter. Our group exploits laser light to explore novel materials and nanostructures on timescales that are short enough to track the dynamics of the optical excitations. By combining ultrafast and ultrasmall we are able to probe quantum mechanics. For further information, please click on research.
Group BBQ picture (July 2011) Derek, Tess, Scott, Brian, Joe, Kevin and Alan from left to right.
