Microphotonic Materials and Structures
Senior Investigators:
- John D. Joannopoulos (group leader)
- Yoel Fink
- Erich P. Ippen
- Leslie A. Kolodziejski
- Keith A. Nelson
- Henry I. Smith
Research Goals
Microphotonic materials are rapidly emerging as one of the most promising new platforms for future optical devices and device components. Such materials allow an unprecedented level of control over the confinement and propagation of light, at dimensions that enabled the design and eventual integration of a large number and variety of optical micro devices on a single chip. The objective of this IRG is to explore materials issues and fundamental properties of photonic crystals, to discover physical phenomena associated with photon states that have never been possible before, and to exploit this knowledge with ultimate aim the design, fabrication, and characterization of novel devices and components.
Read more about IRG-I activities in our 2008 annual report (PDF)
Highlights of Recent Research:
Dynamic surface-emitting fiber lasers (2008)
Power transfer goes cordless (2007)
New photonic structures "freeze" light (2007)
Optical fibers that can take their own temperature (2006)
Defects are perfect when it comes
to processing information with light (2005)
Fabrics that can see the light (2005)
The color of shock waves in photonic crystals (2004)
Total external reflection from photonic bandgap mirror fibers (2003)
Wavelength-scalable hollow photonic bandgap fibers (2003)
