Photonics Groups
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UCLA Photonics Laboratory
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Caltech Biophotonics Lab
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USC Photonics Center
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UCSD Photonic Systems
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Ozcan Research Group
Past Activities
We hold the Photonics Seminar Series in which speakers are invited from universities and companies to give talks about their exciting research. The seminars are held approximately once a month. We also have visitor seminars occasionally. Below is a list of previous seminars.
Nov. 1, 2012
An Astronomical Search for Nanosecond Optical Pulses Using Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Curtis Mead
Harvard University
Mar. 27, 2012
Broadband chromium-doped fiber amplifiers for next generation optical communication systems
Wood-Hi Cheng
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Oct. 28, 2011
Strong-confinement silicon photonics: from telecom-grade signal processing to light powered nanomachines
Milos Popovic
University of Colorado at Boulder
Oct. 6, 2011
Recent developments in coherent nonlinear optical microscopy
Varun Raghunathan
UC Irvine
Sept. 2, 2011
High-speed image sensor, high-speed video camera and its applications
Yasushi Kondo
Shimadzu Corporation
Aug 25, 2011
Photonics Nanostructure Devices
Toshihiko Baba
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Yokohama National University
Aug 11, 2011
NANOSCALE ENGINEERING OF ELECTRON PROCESSES IN QUANTUM DOT STRUCTURES FOR ADVANCED SENSING AND SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION
Vladimir Mitin
Professor of Electrical Engineering
SUNY Buffalo
July 26, 2011
Ultrasound Microbeam and its Biomedical Applications
K. Kirk Shung
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
University of Southern California
July 12, 2011
Nanoscale optics and photonics: from the zero-point energy to photovoltaics
Jeremy Munday
Postdoc, Atwater Group
Thomas J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics
California Institute of Technology
Apr 16, 2011
Applications of Nanophotonics: Absorption Engineering and Optomechanical Circuits
Michelle Povinelli
Assistant Professor
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
Mar 11, 2011
Carbon-Nanotube and Graphene Photonics
Shinji Yamashita
Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems
University of Tokyo
Dec 9, 2010
Dynamic In Vivo Microscopy of Embryonic Heart Morphogenesis and Function
Michael Liebling
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Dec 7, 2010
Engineering Flow Cytometry Solutions for Critical Health Applications
Steven Graves
Associate Director, Center for Biomedical Engineering
Associate Professor, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
University of New Mexico
Nov 18, 2010
Noninvasive Optical Hemodynamic Monitoring with Laser Speckle Imaging
Bernard Choi
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Oct 14, 2010
Micro- and Nanotechnology for Label-Free Biophotonics
Andrea M. Armani
Assistant Professor
Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics
University of Southern California
Sep 9, 2010
Photothermal Excitation for Ultrafast Microfluidic and Nanofluidic Devices
Eric. P.Y. Chiou
Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles
Sep 3, 2010
Implementation of Instantaneous Frequency Measurement
Niusha Sarkhosh
Research Fellow
Microelectronics and Material Technology Center
RMIT University
Jul 29, 2010
Optogenetic fMRI: Genetically Targeted Brain Circuit Debugging
Jin Hyung Lee
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and Radiology Departments
University of California, Los Angeles
Jul 14, 2010
Four-Wave Mixing in Silicon Waveguides for Mid-Infrared Applications
Sanja Zlatanovic
Assistant Project Scientist
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of California, San Diego
Jun 24, 2010
Distributed Mixer Engineering with Molecular-Scale Accuracy: Breaking the Stochastic Barrier
Stojan Radic
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Jun 16, 2010
Silica-Based Highly Nonlinear Fibers and their Applications
Masaaki Hirano
Senior Engineer
Optical Communications R&D Laboratories
Sumitomo Electric Industries
Jun 10, 2010
GaSb-based Laser Diodes for Gas Sensing Applications in the 2-4 um Range
James A. Gupta
Institute for Microstructural Sciences
National Research Council of Canada
May 27, 2010
Nonlinear Coherent Microscopy of Tissues, Nanostructures and Single Molecules
Eric Potma
Assistant Professor
University of California, Irvine
May 24, 2010
Photonic Processing of Ultra-broadband Radio Frequency Waveforms
Ehsan Hamidi
Ph.D. Candidate
Purdue University
Mircocavity Laser Oscillating in Circuit-based Resonators
Christoph Walther
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Apr 28, 2010
Nanometer Scale Cell Surface Topography for Label-Free Cell Classification by Low-Coherence Full-Field Quantitative Phase Microscopy
Toyohiko Yamauchi
Research Scientist
Hamamatsu Photonics
Apr 22, 2010
Manipulating Nanoparticles and Enhancing Spectroscopy with Surface Plasmons
Ken Crozier
Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences
Harvard University
Apr 14, 2010
Photonics-based Telemedicine Technologies toward Smart Global Health Systems
Aydogan Ozcan
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
+ Jointly held with Optical Society of Southern California
Apr 5, 2010
Two-dimensional Electron Gas in Si/SiGe Heterostructure Field-Effect Transistors with Mobility of 1.6x10^6 cm^2/Vs
Tzu-Ming Lu
Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton University
Mar 18, 2010
High Performance Imaging Sensors for Astronomy & Civil Space
James Beletic
Director of Astronomy & Civil Space
Teledyne Imaging Sensors
+ James Beletic's presentation
+ OPN's article about Teledyne's CMOS image sensors
Mar 4, 2010
Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
Miriam Serena Vitiello
Assistant Professor
University of Bari
Mar 1, 2010
Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators for Quantum and Nonlinear Optics
Ivan Grudinin
Postdoctoral Fellow
California Institute of Technology
Feb 4, 2010
Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates: Femtosecond Laser Fabrication and Multiphoton Lithography
Eric Diebold
Ph.D. Candidate
Harvard University
Jan 19, 2010
Quantum Dot Semiconductor Materials and Devices
Guillaume Huyet
Senior Research Scientist
Tyndall National Institute
Cork Institute of Technology
Jan 19, 2010
Using Silicon Photonic Components as Highly Sensitive Biosensors
Sharon M. Weiss
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics
Vanderbilt University
Nov 12, 2009
Turning Tissues Transparent by Time-Reversing Light
Changhuei Yang
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
California Institute of Technology
Oct 15, 2009
Nonlinear Fiber Optics: New Fibers - New Oppotunities
John Dudley
Professor of University of Franche-Comte, France
Director of FEMTO-ST Optoelectronics and Photonics Research Section
Sep 17, 2009
Integration of Nanostructures for Sensor Systems
Axel Scherer
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, and Physics
Co-Director of Kalvi Nanoscience Institute
California Institute of Technology
Sep 8, 2009
Nitrides for Illumination - towards a New Approach
Henning Riechert
Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik, Berlin
May 21, 2009
Opto-Electronic Oscillators
Prakash Koonath
Seinor Engineer
OE Waves
Integrated Microfluidics, Photonics, and Acoustics for Biomedical System-on-a-Chip
Yuhwa Lo
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
May 18, 2009
Dielectric Optical Antenna Emitters and Metamaterials
Jon Schuller
Ph.D. Candidate
Applied Physics Department
Stanford University
May 8, 2009
Surface Plasmonic and Nanowire Nanolasers
Cun-Zheng Ning
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Arizona State University
Center for Nanophotonics - Arizona Institute of Nanoelectronics
Center of Solid State Electronics Research
Mar 19, 2009
Applications of Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy in Nanoscience and Biology
Huaidong Jiang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of California, Los Angeles
Two-Photon Calcium Imaging to Record Activity of Cortical Neurons in Unanesthetized Mice
Carlos Portera-Cailliau
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology
University of California, Los Angeles
Mar 5, 2009
Petascale Cyberinfrastructure by Nanoscale Systems Integration
S. J. Ben Yoo
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis
Mar 19, 2009
Manipulating Spatial Position of Qunatum Dots and their Optical Characteristics
Baolai Liang
Interim Technical Director
Integrated Materials Laboratory
California NanoSystems Institute
University of California, Los Angeles
Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers and Quantum Confinement
Benjamin Williams
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Jan 22, 2009
Optical Rogue Waves and Stimulated Supercontinuum Generation
Daniel R. Solli
Postdoctoral Fellow
Photonics Laboratory
University of California, Los Angeles
A New Tool for TeleMedicine: Lensfree On-Chip Imaging for High-Throughput Cytometry and Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Aydogan Ozcan
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
California NanoSystems Institute
University of California, Los Angeles