Overview

The Department of Physics houses twenty labs, a Center for the Irradiation of Materials, a NSF Center for Nonlinear Optics and Materials, a departmental library, a glass shop, a Learning Resource Center, a graduate student office to house 23 graduate students, and a machine shop.

Research Areas

• Materials Science
• Nano Technology
• Optics
• Space Science

Research Topics

• Crystal growth from solution, melt, vapor for IR, NLO, and photorefractive materials
• Growth of IR window materials, SHG materials, and IR detector materials
• Investigation of polymeric carbon and carbide ware
• Materials characterization by techniques like, SEM, EPR, RBS, optical and electrical methods, etc.
• Surface diffusion studies
• Surface modification studies using Ion implantation
• Crystal growth modeling
• Nonlinear optics in organic and photorefractive materials, and nonlinear fiber optics
• Upconversion lasers
• Real-time interferometry in photorefractive materials
• Integrated optics in thin films of polymeric and organic materials
• Optical phase conjugation in photorefractive materials
• Study of optical surfaces and lenses
• Squeezed states: Applications in optical communication
• Quantum computing
• Research on optical fiber sensors
• Optical hole burning
• Optical computing, optical and optically assisted neural network
• Planetary and space physics

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