Opto Electronics at UTA

Team

 

Faculty

EE

·    Prof. Kambiz Alavi

·    Prof. Donald Butler

·    Prof. J.C. Chiao

·    Prof. Nikolai Stelmakh

·    Prof. Meng Tao

·    Prof. Michael Vasilyev

·    Prof. Weidong Zhou

Links

·    EE

·    ATI

·    COE

·    UTA

·    OSA Student Chapter

·    Visitor Information

 
Research Interests

 

Devices

·       Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) of compound semiconductors

·       Low temperature grown GaAs

·       Chirped superlattices for MQW waveguide and transverse electroabsorption modulators

·       Superlattice and asymmetric quantum well for infrared detectors

·       Valence-mended semiconductor surfaces and interfaces

·       Wet-chemical synthesis of large-area semiconductor thin films

·       Growth and doping kinetics in chemical vapor deposition

·       Plasma and photo-assisted processing of semiconductors

·       Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

·       Nonlinear and quantum optics

·       Manipulation of quantum properties of light (quantum information processing); generation, characterization, and application of non-classical states of light 

·       Nonlinear-optical effects and quantum information processing in micro- and nanoscale structures

·       Nanophotonics

·       Nanotechnology devices

·       Micromachined uncooled infrared detectors

·       Thin film deposition

·       Semiconductor and superconductor devices and materials

·       Sub-poissonian light generation in fiber

·       High-power semiconductor hybrid integrated laser diode systems

 

Systems

·       Optical communication systems and devices

·       Ultra-high-capacity and ultra-long-reach transmission systems and networks

·       Novel optical amplifiers

·       All-optical regenerators and signal processors, new modulation formats 

·       Quantum noise of optical solitons

·       Optical homodyne tomography of quantum states

·       Smart optical integrated circuits: smart AWG

·       WDM technologies

·       Optical MEMS

·       Bio-photonics

 

 

Course

 

Undergraduate

 

·    EE3307 Electromagnetics I

·    EE3308 Electromagnetics II

·    Phys 3445 Optics

·    EE4344 Optical System Design Project

 

Graduate

 

·    EE5359 Medical imaging

·    EE5365 Fiber optics transmission systems

·    EE 5384 Optoelectronic devices for communication

·    EE 5385 Crystal optics

·    EE 5386 Integrated optics

·    EE 5387 Fourier optics and holography

·    EE5388 Lasers and applications

·    EE5389 Optical detection and radiation

·    EE5389 Nonlinear optics

·    EE5349 Advanced MEMS – actuators, RF and optical MEMS