:: Faculty ::

Dr Arash Mafi (PhD, Physics, The Ohio State University, 2001)

Interim OSE General Chair

Advanced materials

Quantum and nonlinear behavior of optical waveguides, light propagation in disordered media

 

Associate Professor

Physics and Astronomy

 

 

 

Majeed Hayat (Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992)

OSE Co- Chair

Avalanche photodiodes,

optical communications,

image modeling and restoration,

algorithms for spectral sensing

Professor
ECE & CHTM

 

Websitee-mail | 505.272.7095


Affiliated faculty, their research areas and contact information (in alphabetical order).

 

Victor Acosta (Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2011)


Nano-scale magnetometry and MRI with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond,

Molecular imaging with optically-pumped fluorophores,

Unconventional techniques in magnetic resonance

Assistant Professor
OSE & CHTM


e-mail |505.277.2616

 

Ladan Arissian (Ph.D., Univ. of New Mexico, 2007)


 

 

 

Ultrafast Phenomena

Attosecond Science

Laser Sensors

Laser Filaments

Research Assistant Professor
ECE & CHTM


e-mail | 505.277.7389


Ganesh Balakrishnan (Ph.D., Univ. of New Mexico, 2005)


 

 

 

Compound semiconductor based optoelectronics and novel epitaxial processes

Assistant Professor
ECE & CHTM


Websitee-mail | 505.272.7970

 

Dr. Francisco Elohim Becerra 


 

 

 

Optics

Experimental research in quantum optics, nonlinear optics and quantum information

Assistant Professor
Physics and Astronomy


fbecerra@unm.edu | 505-277-2673

 

Steven R. J. Brueck (Ph.D. 1971 MIT)

 

Lithography
Nanostructures
Optoelectronics
Epitaxial growth
Nonlinear optics

Distinguished Professor

ECE, CHTM and Physics and Astronomy

Websitee-mail| 505.272.7800

 

Francesca Cavallo

 

2D materials: fundamental properties and applications
Flexible electronics, optoelectronics and photonics
Advanced neural interfaces
THz radiation
Rolled-up nanotech

ECE, CHTM

Websitee-mail| 505.277.2436


Carlton M. Caves (Ph.D., Caltech, 1979)



Quantum Optics
Quantum Information Theory

Distinguished Professor

Physics and Astronomy


Websitee-mail | 505.277.8674


Christos Christodoulou (Ph.D., North Carolina State, 1985)




Wireless communications

Neural networks

Electromagnetic systems

Distinguished Professor

ECE


Websitee-mail | 505.277.6580


Ralph Dawson (Ph.D., Southern California, 1968)

Growth (MBE, MOCVD) Semiconductor Lasers

Research Professor

ECE & CHTM


Website | e-mail | 505.272.7820


Ivan Deutsch (Ph.D., Berkley, 1992)

Quantum Optics
Atom Optics
Laser Cooling
Quantum Information Science

Professor, Regents Lecturer
Physics and Astronomy

Websitee-mail | 505.277.1502


Jean-Claude Diels, (Ph. D., Brussels, 1973)

Fiber Optics
Laser Physics
Nonlinear Optics
Spectroscopy
Ultrafast Phenomena

Professor

Physics and Astronomy, ECE & CHTM


Websitee-mail | 505.277.4026


Petr G. Eliseev

Semiconductor Lasers

 

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Research Professor
ECE & CHTM


Websitee-mail | 505.272.7807


Luke A.Emmert

 

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Research Assistant Professor
Physics and Astronomy


Website | e-mail | 505.277.1451


Richard I. Epstein (Ph.D., Stanford)

Laser Cooling

Gama ray optics

Research Professor

Physics and Astronomy (also LANL)

 

Websitee-mail | 505.667.9595


Daniel Feezell

Visible optoelectronics Novell fabrication techniques

GaN-based epitaxy, solid state lighting, semiconductor lasers

 

Assistant Professor
ECE & CHTM

 

Website | e-mail | 505.272.7823

 

Chuck Fleddermann

Optics Education

Photovoltaics

Professor
ECE

 

Website | e-mail | 505.000.0000

 

Terefe G.Habteyes

DNA mediated optical coupling Semiconductor-metal hybrid nanomaterials

Fabrication and optical characterization of plasmonic sensors and probes , Energy transfer in coupled quantum dot and plasmonic nanostructures

 

Assistant Professor
Chemistry & CHTM

 

Websitee-mail | 505.277.8845

 

John Grey

Electronic and Photonic Material Physical Chemistry

 

Associate Professor
Chemistry

 

Websitee-mail | 505.277.1658

 

Michael P. Hasselbeck (Ph.D., CREOL/ Univ. of Central Florida, 1995)

Semicondcuor Optics

THz Plasmonics

Solid-State Laser Cooling

Resaerch Professor
Physics and Astronomy

 

Website | e-mail| 505.277.0590


Mani Hossein-Zadeh (Ph.D., Univ. of Southern California, 2005)

RF Photonics
ultra high-Q optical microresonators and bio/chemical photonic sensors.

Assistant Professor
ECE & CHTM


Websitee-mail | 505.272.7845


Ravinder K. Jain (Ph.D., 1974, UC, Berkeley)

Fiber Optics
Nanostructures
Nonlinear Optics
Optical Bioensors
Photonic Circuits
Ultrafast Phenomena

Professor
ECE & CHTM

 

Website | e-mail | 505.272.7842


V. M. (Nitant) Kenkre (Ph.D., SUNY - Stony Brook, 1971)

Interactions of Light with Organic Materials, Dynamics of Photo-injected Carriers

Professor, Director of the Consortium of the Americas

Physics and Astronomy

Websitee-mail | 505.277.4846 and 505.277.0848


Sanjay Krishna (Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan - Ann Arbor)

Sensors

QW Devices

Professor & Director of CHTM

ECE & CHTM

 

Websitee-mail | 505.272.7892

 

Olga Lavrova (Ph.D., UC, Santa Barbara, 2001)


 

 

 

Assistant Professor
ECE & CHTM


Websitee-mail | 505.277.2211


Keith A.Lidke

fluorescence super-resolution techniques, single particle tracking, and hyperspectral microscopy

 

Assistant Professor

Physics and Astronomy

 

Websitee-mail | 505.277.0302



Kevin Malloy (Ph.D., Stanford, 1983)

Advanced materials

Quantum dot lasers

 

Professor

Physics and Astronomy & CHTM

 

Websitee-mail | 505.272.7855


Alejandro Manjavacas(Ph.D., Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid/ CSIC, Spain, 2013)

 

Assistant Professor


 

Websitee-mail| 505.277.1064/span>

 

John A. J.Matthews (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1971)


Particle astrophysics,

particle-physics instrumentation,

and laboratory dark matter searches

Director, New Mexico Center for Particle Physics
Professor, Physics & Astronomy


Websitee-mail |505.277.2077

 


Sudhakar Prasad (Ph.D., Harvard, 1983)

Quantum Optics
Imaging

Professor
Physics and Astronomy

 

Websitee-mail505.277.5876

 


Marek Osinski (Ph.D., 1979, Polish Academy of Sciences )

Optoelectronics
Photonic Integrated Circuits
Nanostructures
Biomedical Optics
Optical Imaging
Advanced Materials

Professor
ECE, CHTM & Physics and Astronomy

 

Websitee-mail | 505.272.7812


Wolfgang Rudolph (Ph.D., 1995 University Jena)

Ultrashort Phenomena Spectroscopy
Femtosecond microscopy
Infrared lasers
Bio-optics

Professor & Chair
Physics and Astronomy

 

Websitee-mail | 505.277.2081


Edl. Schamiloglu (Ph.D., Cornell, 1988)

Microwaves

Professor

ECE

 

Website | e-mail | 505.277.4423

 

Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, Distinguished Professor Physics and Astronomy (Ph.D., 1987, SUNY - Buffalo)

 

 

Nonlinear Optics

Laser Cooling in Solids

Ultrafast Phenomena

Laser Physics

THz Plasmonics

Professor

Physics and Astronomy

 

Websitee-mail | 505.277.2080


Andy Shreve(Ph.D., Cornell, 1991)

Self-assembly, biological assembly and photophysical behavior of electronic and optical materials; patterned functional thin-film materials through self-assembly processes; self-trapping and energy localization in transition-metal based charge transfer materials; energy and electron transfer processes; biological sensing and imaging technologies; spectroscopic and optical instrumentation.

Professor

Chemical & Nuclear Engineering

 

Website | e-mail | 505.277.4939


Jim Thomas (Ph.D., Cornell, 1991)

Biomedical Optics

Associate Professor

Physics and Astronomy

 

Websitee-mail | 505.235.7321