Top: Aaron, Ryan, Vivek, Chris, Dan, Reza, Yoshi, Alex
Bottom: Mark, Bonggu, Sam, Onur, Pablo, Amar, Kasturi, Ken

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.

 
 
Postdocs

Mark Foster

maf42~at~cornell.edu

Research: Optimization of nanofabricated waveguides for ultra-high bandwidth nonlinear optical devices and their application to ultrafast signal processing.

 
 

Onur Kuzucu

ook2~at~cornell.edu

Research: Nonlinear optics and all-optical information processing using four-wave mixing on silicon wave guides. Generation of single and entangled photons for quantum information processing.

Pablo Londero

pl336~at~cornell.edu

Research: Nonlinear quantum photonics using alkali vapors in hollow-core band-gap fibers. Optical field characterization using silicon waveguides.

 
 

Yoshi Okawachi

yo22~at~cornell.edu

Research: All-optical signal processing using space- time duality techniques, characterization of Si nanowaveguides, and conversion-dispersion tunable optical delays.

Bonggu Shim

bgs43~at~cornell.edu

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

 
 
Graduate Students

Dan Broaddus

dhb29~at~cornell.edu

Research: Novel nonlinear optical effects in chalcogenide glass microspheres. Signal processing devices in silicon nanowires

 
 

Alessandro Farsi

af342~at~cornell.edu

Research: Silicon time-lens-based all-optical signal processing.

Ryan Lau

rkl48~at~cornell.edu

Research: All-optical signal processing in silicon for terehertz frequency applications.

 
 

Kasturi Saha

ks652~at~cornell.edu

Research: Light-matter interactions 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 the high intensity pulses in air.

 
 

Vivek Venkataraman

vv49~at~cornell.edu

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

Henry Wen

yhw2~at~cornell.edu

Research: Zeno-based all-optical switching in silicon.

 
 
Undergraduate Students

Ken Ferguson

krf39~at~cornell.edu

Research: Design and development of optical amplifiers for all-optical signal processing.

   
 
Support Staff

Kim Cotton

(607) 255 2103

kec36~at~cornell.edu

 
 
Former Postdocs

Reza Salem
Aaron Slepkov
Amiel Ishaaya
Jay Sharping

     
 
Former Graduate Students

Amar Bhagwat
Chris Hensley
Luat Vuong
Imad Agha
Yoshi Okawachi
Mark Foster
Taylor Grow
Saikat Ghosh
Dimitre Ouzounov
Kevin Moll
Doug Homoelle
Stephan Wielandy
Mary Lanzerotti
Robert Schirmer
Jinendra Ranka

     
 
Former UnderGraduate Students

Edgar Peralta
Wallace Hui
Kyle Renshaw
Bo Sun
Shireen Goh

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Postdoctoral Research Associates

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Undergradgraduate Students

Support Staff

Former Group Members

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