Research Groups

Applied Optics Group
University of L'Aquila (Italy). Activities involve NDT on works of art and optical metrology. Staff, research areas, publications, links and lateral thinking section.
http://dau.ing.univaq.it/~laser

Center for Adaptive Optics
An NSF Science and Technology Center dedicated to removing the blurring of images caused by changing distortions in optical systems with applications to Astronomy and Vision Science.
http://cfao.ucolick.org/

Chair for BioMolecular Optics at the Physics Department of Ludwig-Maximilians University
München, Germany. Current research and development information on femtosecond laser technology, jobs, tour, faculty, and contact details.
http://www.bmo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/

CoreCom - Lightwave Processing
A research consortium of Pirelli cables and systems and the Politecnico di Milano for optical lightwave processing.
http://www.corecom.it

Diffraction by Periodic Structures
Research at the University of Sydney. In particular involves studies of diffraction by periodic structures, photonic and phononic crystals, transport properties of composite materials, and modes in systems of optical fibres.
http://physics.usyd.edu.au/theory/dif/dif.html

Electro-Optics Research Center
University of Texas at Arlington, nonlinear optics research in second harmonic generation, ionic selfassembled monolayer (ISAM) films, ellipsometry, waveguides, atomic force microscopy, and optical anisotropy.
http://www.uta.edu/optics/index.htm

Engineering Photonics Group, Cranfield University
Topics include: fibre optic sensors, fiber Bragg gratings, long period gratings optical coherence tomography, flow measurement and speckle interferometry.
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/departments/processsystems/engineeringphotonics/

ETHZ Quantum Optics Group
Homepage of the Quantum Optics Group at the ETHZ Institute for Quantum Electronics.
http://www.quantumoptics.ethz.ch/

Fiber Optics Group
Gives the activities of the Fiber Optics Group of the Institue of Physics at Wroclaw University of Technology.
http://www.if.pwr.wroc.pl/instytut/labe/labe/labe.html

GAP-Optique
Research and Development center for Quantum Optics at the Group of Applied Physics (GAP), University of Geneva. Projects, prototypes, publications, members.
http://www.gap-optique.unige.ch/

The Group of Applied Physics (GAP) at Geneva University (GAP-Optique)
Research and Development center for Quantum Optics at the Group of Applied Physics (GAP), University of Geneva. Projects, prototypes, publications, members.
http://www.gapoptique.unige.ch/

GUESS Research Group
High-resolution monochromatic optical system design, based on conventional and unconventional (diffractive and gradient-index) elements.
http://www.guess.h1.ru/

High-Field Science Group, University of Michigan
Physics of ultra-high fields produced by intense and ultrashort-pulse-duration lasers. Applications to relativistic nonlinear optics, compact sources of ultrashort-duration x rays, protons and relativistic electrons.
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/USL-HFS/

The Institute of Photonics
A commercially-oriented research unit, working as part of the University of Strathclyde, but with industrial requirements significantly influencing the research agenda.
http://www.photonics.ac.uk

Laboratory of Adaptive Optics of Moscow State University
Devoted for research and development in adaptive optics, adive optical elements such as bimorph mirrors, wavefront sensors, etc.; optics of the human eye, nonliner dynamics, nonlinear properties of polimers, etc.
http://www.optics.ru

Laboratory of Nonlinear Optics of Nanostructures and Photonic Crystals
Laboratory of nonlinear optics of nanostructures and photonic crystals, Aktsipetrov O.A., Murzina T.V., Fedyanin A.A., Maidykovsky A.I.
http://www.shg.ru/

Laboratory Optical Means of Information
Fundamental and applied research in image restoration, quality assessment, theory of nondepolarizing optical systems, light scattering and radiation transfer at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
http://losi.itgo.com/

Laser Optics and Spectroscopy Group
Physics Department of Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, UK.
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research/qols/

Laser Physics Group
A collection of links to the fields of laser, quantum, atomic, molecular physics and optics.
http://www.phys.umu.se/laser/physlink.htm

NASA JPL Optical Communications Group
The Optical Communications Group at NASA / JPL is developing the next generation of optical communications systems that are 10 to 100 times faster than current state-of-the-art systems.
http://lasers.jpl.nasa.gov

Nonlinear Optics and Photonics Group
Nonlinear Optics and Photonics Group is part of the Department of Theoretical Physics at the National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering "Horia Hulubei", Bucharest, Romania.
http://www.theory.nipne.ro/NLO/

Nonlinear Optics Laboratory at ETH Zurich
The nonlinear optics laboratory is part of the institute of quantum electronics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Switzerland. The main research topics are nonlinear optical materials and methods for frequency conversion and optical communication.
http://www.nlo.ethz.ch

Optical Sciences Center
Education, research and outreach in the science and application of light.
http://www.optics.arizona.edu/

Photonics Communication Research Laboratory
Includes research areas, staff and publications.
http://www.telecom.ece.ntua.gr/photonics/

Photonics Engineering and Health Technology Research
Specialises in non-invasive optical monitoring systems for medical, surgical and personal health applications. Page contains list of staff and current projects, A part of the Loughborough University in the UK.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/el/research/photonics/

Quantum Optics
Provides an overview of the research, the people and publications in the field at Caltech.
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~qoptics/

Research Group on Semiconductors
Group of Prof. Lorenzo Pavesi. Research on Porous Silicon. Photonics Devices. University of Trento (Italy)
http://www.science.unitn.it/~semicon/

School of Optics/CREOL
Graduate school/Research center in optics and photonics.
http://www.creol.ucf.edu/

Specialty Fiber Optics Development Laboratory at Rutgers University
Development of specialty fiber optics for the transmission of infrared energy for a variety applications. Professor James A. Harrington
http://irfibers.rutgers.edu/

SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering
SPIE is dedicated to advancing the scientific research and engineering applications of optics, optical, photonic, imaging and optoelectronic technologies through international conferences, education programs and publications.
http://spie.org

University of Reading, Infrared Multilayer Laboratory
Design, manufacture and testing of infrared optical filters and coatings for atmospheric sensing instrumentation.
http://www.irfilters.reading.ac.uk/

University of Rochester: The Institute of Optics
Institute of Optics at Rochester.
http://www.optics.rochester.edu/

Vahala Research Group at Caltech
The Vahala Research Group at the California Institute of Technology currently focuses on silica high-Q and ultra-high-Q microresonators.
http://www.vahala.caltech.edu

Visual Optics and Biophotonics Group. Institute of Optics, CSIC, Madrid
Research activities on: Optical quality of the human eye; New technology for non-invasive assessment of the visual system. Ocular aberrations: normal eye, pathological and surgical eyes; Ocular biometry and biophotonics.
http://www.vision.csic.es

Webpage on Fiber Optics. Claudio Vinegoni - Home Page
Webpage on Fiber Optics. Claudio Vinegoni Articles on Fiber Optics. Electrochromic Materials. Physics. Porous silicon and optical Spectroscopy. Raman Spectroscopy.
http://www.quantacomm.com