Stanford faculty working in the field of optics:

Name Research Field of Interest
Zhenan Bao polymer and organic electronics and photonics
Robert L. Byer solid state lasers, adaptive optics, nonlinear optics
Mark Brongersma photonic nanoparticles and nanostructures
Michel Digonnet fiber optics
Abbas El Gamal digital imaging and wireless networks
Shanhui Fan photonic crystals, computational electromagnetics
Robert Feigelson nonlinear optical materials
Martin M. Fejer nonlinear optics, nonlinear optical materials, applications in telecommunications
James S. Harris semiconductor optoelectronic materials, devices and applications
Stephen E. Harris fundamentals of photonics and nonlinear optics
Lambertus Hesselink nano-photonics and ultra-high density optical data storage
Joseph M. Kahn Optical fiber communications, free-space optical communications, associated devices and subsystems
Mark Kasevich High accuracy navigation and gravimetric sensors based on de Broglie wave interferometry; Future atom optics sensors which exploit the novel coherence properties of Bose-Einstin condensates
Leonid Kazovsky optical telecommunications and network systems
Thomas W. Kenny microsensors based on silicon micromachining
Gordon S. Kino and H. John Shaw optical fiber sensors
Michael McGehee polymer optical materials and devices
David A. B. Miller optoelectronic physics, devices, and systems, optical switching and interconnects, optical sensing
W. E. Moerner single-molecule spectroscopy, biophysics, nanophotonics
Daniel Palanker Biomedical optics and electronics
Peter Peumans Organic and molecular electronics
Krishna Saraswat innovative materials, device structures, and process technology of silicon devices and integrated circuits
Mark Schnitzer design and application of micro-optical imaging techniques for studying biophysical dynamics of neurons
Anthony E. Siegman (Emeritus) Research and consulting in lasers, optics and fiber optics, including technical and litigation consulting
Olav Solgaard optical micromechanical devices and applications
Jelena Vuckovic photonic crystal-based optical and quantum optical devices and their integration; solid-state photonic quantum information systems; cavity quantum electrodynamics with quantum dots
Brian A. Wandell image system engineering and visual neuroscience
Yoshihisa Yamamoto fundamental optoelectronic physics, structures, and devices, quantum computing
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