First row: Alex, Moti, Yoshi, Ryan
Secon row: Kasturi, Alessandro, Henry
Third row: Greg, Vivek, Sam, Stephane
Fourth row: Adrea, Mike, Bonggu, Prathamesh

Principal Investigator

Alexander Gaeta

alg3~at~cornell.edu

Research: Ultrafast nonlinear optics, all-optical processing, the development and application of photonic crystal fibers, nanophotonics, and quantum effects in nonlinear optics.

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Research Associates
Yoshi

Yoshi Okawachi

yo22~at~cornell.edu

Research: Chip-based optical frequency comb generation, nonlinear optics in photonic structures, and all-optical signal processing using space-time duality techniques.

 
 

Bonggu Shim

bgs43~at~cornell.edu

Research: Interactions between air filaments, spatio-temporal collapse dynamics, high-power lasers, and numerical simulations of these effects.

bonggu
 
Postdoctoral Associates

Stephane Clemmen

sc764~at~cornell.edu

Research: Quantum optics in waveguides using material nonlinearity and alkali vapors, parametric processes at the single photon level via Kerr nonlinearity.

 
 

Moti Fridman

mf557~at~cornell.edu

Research: All-optical signal processing using space-time duality techniques.

Michael Lamont

ml624~at~cornell.edu

Research: Dispersion engineering of planar waveguides for optimized nonlinear optical processes, including silicon photonics for mid-IR applications.

 
 
Graduate Students
pratham

Prathamesh Donvalkar

psd52~at~cornell.edu

Research: Photonics, quantum optics, and quantum information.

 
 

Alessandro Farsi

af342~at~cornell.edu

Research: Silicon time-lens-based all-optical signal processing. Quantum effects in nonlinear optics.

adrea

Adrea Johnson

aj46~at~cornell.edu

Research: On-chip optical frequency comb generation.

 
 

Ryan Lau

rkl48~at~cornell.edu

Research: All optical signal processing in silicon nanowaveguides for mid-IR applications.

Kasturi Saha

ks652~at~cornell.edu

Research: Light-matter ineractions with hot atomic vapors (Rb) confined inside hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers. On-chip frequency comb generation for spectroscopy.

 
 

Sam Schrauth

ss575~at~cornell.edu

Research: Novel ultrafast and high-intensity phenomena. Spatio-temporal dynamics of collapsing pulses in bulk media and high intensity pulses in air.

Vivek Venkataraman

vv49~at~cornell.edu

Research: Nonlinear quantum photonics using alkali vapors in hollow-core bandgap fibers. Generation of novel quantum states of optical fields in silicon-nitride waveguides.

 
 

Henry Wen

yhw2~at~cornell.edu

Research: Zeno-based all-optical switching. Nonlinear optics in grephene.

 
MEng Students
 
Undergraduate Students
pratham

Gregory Stein

gjs58~at~cornell.edu

Research: Effects of initial phase on the propagation of high intensity pulses through optical fibers.

 
 
Visiting Scientists
 
Support Staff

Kim Cotton

(607) 255 2103

kec36~at~cornell.edu

 
 
Former Postdocs

Pablo Londero
Mark Foster
Onur Kuzucu
Reza Salem
Aaron Slepkov
Amiel Ishaaya
Jay Sharping
Alexander Streltsov

 
 
Former Graduate Students

Daniel Broaddus

Optical devices and systems in highly nonlinear materials and geometries

Amar Bhagwat

Low-light-level nonlinear optics with rubidum atoms in hollow-core photonic band- gap fibers

Christopher Hensley Intense laser-gas interactions in hollow-core photonic band-gap fibers
Luat Vuong Collapse of optical vortices and sequential filamentation
Imad Agha Nonlinear optics in high-Q silica microspheres
Yoshitomo Okawachi Slow light and tunable optical delays
Mark Foster Nonlinear optics in photonic nanowires
Taylor Grow Spatial collapse dynamics of optical beams in Kerr media
Saikat Ghosh Quantum and nonlinear optical interactions in photonic crystal fibers
Dimitre Ouzounov Dispersive and nonlinear propagation of ultrashort pulses in microstructured and hollow-core photonic band-gap fibers
Kevin Moll Influence of nonlinear optical effects on the spatial dynamics of intense laser beams
Doug Homoelle Femtosecond nonlinear optical phenomena in bulk solids and gas-filled hollow waveguides
Stephen Wielandy Controlling the optical properties of an atomic vapor
Mary Lanzerotti Phase conjugation of nonclassical fields and weak optical signals
Robert Schirmer Field propagation and noise generation in nonlinear dispersive media
Jinendra Ranka Nonlinear dynamics of the propagation of ultrashort pulses
 
Former UnderGraduate Students

Jordan Kent-Bryant
Ken Ferguson
Edgar Peralta
Wallace Hui
Kyle Renshaw
Bo Sun
Shireen Goh
Art Nitkowski
Mark Foster

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