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OSE Seminar by Dr. Hermann Kahle on The Membrane External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser: A new star in the sky?
April 15, 2025
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025 Time: 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM Location: PAIS, Room 2540 and Zoom Speaker: Dr. Hermann Kahle, Postdoc; UNM Physic ... [Read More]
OSE Seminar by Dr. Claude Phipps on Lasers for Space: Years of Promise are Becoming Reality
April 15, 2025
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025 Time: 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM Location: PAIS, Room 2540 and Zoom Speaker: Dr. Claude Phipps, Founder Photonic Associates, ... [Read More]
OSE Dissertation Defense by Ms. Subhashree Seth on Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers (PCSELs) based on Dot in Well (DWELL) Active Region by Epitaxial Regrowth Method
April 1, 2025
Date and Time: Friday, April 4, 2025, from 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Location: CHTM, Room 103 Dissertation Committee: Prof. Ganesh Balakrishn ... [Read More]
OSE Seminar by Dr. Jeff Nicholson, OSE Alumnus, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Senior Engineering Manager on Specialty fiber designs for high-power fiber lasers
March 31, 2025
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2025 Time: 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM Location: PAIS, Room 2540 and Zoom Speaker: Dr. Jeff Nicholson, OSE Alumnus,& ... [Read More]
OSE Seminar by Dr. Andreas Schmitt-Sody on Directed Energy Research at AFRL
March 24, 2025
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025 Time: 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM Location: CHTM Room 103 and Zoom Speaker: Dr. Andreas Schmitt-Sody, UNM Alumnus and Deputy C ... [Read More]
The 2025 Optical Science and Engineering Open House
March 11, 2025
The 2025 Optical Science and Engineering Open House The OSE Program will be hosting its annual Open House on Friday, April ... [Read More]
OSE Seminar by Dr. Christopher Wilcox on Adaptive Optics for Astronomy and Aero-Optical Studies
February 18, 2025
OSE Seminar by Dr. Thomas Rotter on Photonic crystal surface emitting lasers (PCSELs) based on epitaxial quantum nanostructures
February 18, 2025
OSE Seminar by Distinguished Professor Pavel Lushnikov on Self-focusing and collapses of laser beams in nonlinear optical media
January 29, 2025
OSE Seminar by By Prof. Vitaly Gruzdev on Ultrafast laser-material interactions: a basis of PHz technologies of tomorrow
January 29, 2025
OSE Special Seminar by Professor Jens Biegert on Attosecond Quantum Dynamics – Deciphering a Chemical Reaction
January 17, 2025
OSE 2024 Fall and Summer Graduates
December 13, 2024
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Hasan Ahmed on Predictive Modeling of Electro-optic Modulators Under Electromagnetic Interference
November 22, 2024
OSE Seminar by Evan M. Anderson on Investigating Point Defects in Narrow Band Gap Materials for Space-Based Infrared Sensors
November 19, 2024
OSE Seminar by Dr. Wassie Takele on Molecular Properties in Optically Confined Environments
November 11, 2024
OSE MS Thesis Defense by Hosuk Lee on Helmholtz reciprocity in bidirectional Y-junction couplers
November 2, 2024
OSE Seminar by Mx. Duncan McGraw on A novel bifacial semi-transparent thermoplastic solar panel for agrivoltaic applications
October 29, 2024
OSE Seminar by Prof. P. James Schuck on Strain-localized excitons and nonlinear van der Waals photonics in 2D semiconductors
October 18, 2024
OSE Seminar by Dr. Sadhvikas J. Addamane on Recent progress in epitaxial growth of semiconductor quantum dot-based lasers and single photon emitters
September 30, 2024
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Troy Hutchins-Delgado on Ge/SiGe quantum wells: material for the post-Moore era
September 30, 2024
OSE Seminar by Dr. Keith Lidke on Circumventing the Diffraction Limit to Observe Nanoscale Protein Interactions
September 25, 2024
OSE Seminar by Dr. Stavroula Foteinopoulou on Revisiting diffraction gratings: From transmission asymmetry to reconfigurable photonics.
September 12, 2024
OSE Seminar by Prof. Jean-Hubert Olivier on Molecular Tools to Tune the Electronic Properties of Semiconducting Nanoscale Objects
August 28, 2024
OSE Seminar by Dr. Terefe Habteyes on Nanoscopy and Nanoscale Light-Initiated Processes
August 22, 2024
OSE New Student Orientation Luncheon
August 19, 2024
OSE 2nd Year Student Talks - Fall 2024 Term
August 1, 2024
OSE PHD, Dr. Xuefeng Li - Wins The 2024 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs Award
May 10, 2024
2024 OSE Spring and Summer Graduates
May 9, 2024
OSE Seminar by Professor Victor Acosta on Precision measurement and spectroscopy with diamond NV centers
April 17, 2024
UNM Newsroom OSE 40th Anniversary story
April 16, 2024
OSE Seminar by Dr. Markus P. Hehlen on Detecting Neutrons with Scintillating Composites
March 19, 2024
OSE Seminar by Dr. Michael J. Abere on Lasers as quantitative thermal sources for studying reactive chemistry
March 19, 2024
OSE Seminar by Professor Roman Sobolewski on Terahertz Photonics
February 10, 2024
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Fatih Furkan Ince on MBE Growth of Sb based alloys using interfacial misfit arrays for MWIR devices
February 10, 2024
OSE Seminar by Dr. Daniel Thrasher on Miniature Atomic Clocks
February 9, 2024
OSE Seminar by Dr. Tom Chyba on Laser Remote Sensing of Hazardous Substances, Aerosols, and Greenhouse Gases.
January 30, 2024
Student Prize Honoring Mansoor Sheik-Bahae
January 22, 2024
OSE 2nd Year Student Talks - Spring 2024 Term
January 8, 2024
2023 OSE Fall and Summer Graduates
December 13, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Federico Capasso on Flat Optics: from structured light and dark to high performance metaoptics for mass markets
December 4, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Erik R. Hosler on The Last Light Source
November 13, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Frédéric Grillot on Semiconductor Quantum Dots Genesis, prospects & challenges
November 7, 2023
Mr. Bisweswar Patra, OSE PHD Student Showcases his Research at the UNM Shared Knowledge Conference
November 3, 2023
Mr. Md. Nasful Huda Prince, OSE PHD Student Showcased his Research at the UNM Shared Knowledge Conference
November 3, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Jean Claude Diels on From “normal size” laser to micro-laser to BIG laser
November 1, 2023
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Xuefeng Li on CARRIER DYNAMICS IN GREEN III-NITRIDE LEDS USING SMALL-SIGNAL ELECTROLUMINESCENCE
October 24, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Gowtham Mohan on Optical applications in solar energy technology lab
October 24, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Viktoriia Babicheva on Resonating Light: Nanofabrication and Functionality of Optical Nanostructures
October 17, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Prasad P. Iyer on Active Control of Spontaneous Emission from Semiconductor Metasurfaces
October 3, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Zuo on Ultrafast laser micromachining for stress-based figure correction of thin mirrors
September 27, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Raktim Sarma on Complex Nanophotonics: From Extreme Nonlinear Optics to All-Optical Image Processing
September 19, 2023
OSE Seminar by OSE PHD Candidate, Mr. Gabriel Colación on Silicon nitride microresonator Optical frequency combs: thermal noise and novel methods in fabrication
September 12, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Rahul Jaiswal of Advanced Micro Devices, (AMD)
September 6, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Ganapathi (Ganesh) Subramania of Sandia National Labs on Light manipulation with nanostructures.
August 30, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. John Grey of Sandia National Labs on Hierarchical self-assembly of carbon dots into high aspect ratio nanowires.
August 23, 2023
Fall 2023 OSE New Student Orientation Luncheon
August 19, 2023
OSE 2nd Year Student Talks - Fall 2023 Term
August 9, 2023
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Forrest Hubert on Super-Resolution Microscopy with Color Centers in Diamond
May 22, 2023
Mr. Yaser Silani - 2023 Optical Science and Engineering, (OSE) Best Dissertation Award Winner
May 9, 2023
2023 OSE Spring and Summer Graduates
May 8, 2023
OSE researcher, Dr. Alejandro Manjavacas, studies control of the radiative heat transfer in a pair of rotating nanostructures*
April 28, 2023
OSE PhD Student Wins First Place Prestigious Prize “2023 Intel Supply Chain Award for Best Student Papers”
April 8, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Quan Wang on Watching single biomolecules in action with optics, microfluidics and algorithms
April 4, 2023
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Yaser Silani on Femtotesla Magnetometry and Nanoscale Imaging with Color Centers in Diamond
March 24, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Tonmoy Chakraborty on Imaging for physiologically relevant 3D micro-environment
March 22, 2023
UNM SPIE Student Chapter Reboot Event
March 8, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Stephen Boyd on Single photon and particle detection with SQUIDs and spins
February 26, 2023
OSE Seminar by Prof. Vassilios Kovanis on Limit Cycles and Isochrons in Tunable Photonic Oscillators
February 20, 2023
The OSE Program’s Safety, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement and Campus Resources
February 15, 2023
UNM Celebrates Black History Month
February 15, 2023
OSE Seminar by Prof. Stefan Posse on High-Frequency Signal Correlations in Functional MRI of Human Brain
February 14, 2023
OSE Seminar by Mr. Brian Topper, OSE PHD Student shares a paper on Laser cooling silica: current status and future prospects
February 6, 2023
OSE Faculty, Dr. Jean-Claude Diels gives an invited paper on Sub-nano-scale phase sensing and improvement by squeezing
February 1, 2023
OSE PHD Student, Mr. Jackson Kock gives an invited paper on Payload cooling to <125K using optical refrigeration in Yb:YLF
February 1, 2023
OSE Faculty Member, Dr. Alexander R. Albrecht shares a paper on Demonstration of diode-pumped optical refrigeration to cryogenic temperature.
February 1, 2023
OSE PHD Student, Brian Topper shares a paper on Laser cooling silica: current status and future prospects.
January 31, 2023
OSE PHD Student, Mr. Mingyang Zhang shares paper on A single-mode high-power in-well pumped hybrid-MECSEL at 589 nm
January 31, 2023
OSE Seminar by Prof. Denis Seletskiy on Introduction to subcycle quantum optics and applications
January 30, 2023
OSE Seminar by Dr. Viktoriia Babicheva on High-refractive-index metastructures with lattice multipole resonances
January 25, 2023
OSE 2nd Year Talks
January 5, 2023
2022 OSE Fall and Summer Graduates
December 16, 2022
OSE Seminar By OSE Alumnus, Dr. Xiaozhen Xu of NASA on RF differential phase measurements of the LISA fiber amplifier
December 5, 2022
UNM SPIE Student Chapter Reboot Event & CHTM Tour
November 30, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Prashant Padmanabhan on Exploring Magnetic Dynamics and Collective Phenomena in Quantum Materials
November 30, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Chengyong Feng, OSE Alumnus on Nonlinearity-tunable regenerative amplifier for high-power ultrashort pulse generation
November 15, 2022
Mr. Gabriel Colación, OSE PHD Student Showcased his Research at the UNM Shared Knowledge Conference
November 4, 2022
Ms. Shruti Gharde, OSE PHD Student Showcased her Research at the UNM Shared Knowledge Conference
November 3, 2022
Ms. Elizabeth DeJong, OSE PHD Student Showcased her Research at the UNM Shared Knowledge Conference
November 3, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Michael Gehl of Sandia National Labs on Integrated Photonics for Scalable Quantum Systems
October 25, 2022
OSE MS Project Exam by Ms. Theala Redhouse
October 24, 2022
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Cody Bassett on Investigation of Laser and Nonlinear Properties of Anderson Localizing Optical Fibers
October 24, 2022
OSE MS Project Defense by Mr. Darryl Benally
October 24, 2022
OSE Seminar by OSE Alumnus, Dr. Patrick Rambo Sandia National Labs on Laser Development at Sandia's Z-Backlighter Facility
October 19, 2022
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Nathan Giannini on Investigation of GaAs Double Heterostructures for Photonic Heat Engines
October 3, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Jason Jones on Frequency Comb Spectroscopy from the XUV to the MIR
September 28, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Jason Jones on Frequency Comb Spectroscopy from the XUV to the MIR
September 28, 2022
OSE Seminar by Mr. Max Chen on the Levitated Optomechanics and Precision Accelerometry for Inertial Navigation
September 20, 2022
The Shared Knowledge Conference
September 14, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Francesca Cavallo, on Slow-Wave Structures for Millimeter-through-THz Frequencies: A Convergent Research Approach Inspired by Cucumber Plants.
September 12, 2022
OSE Seminar by Interim Dean of A&S, Dr. Arash Mafi on Laser Cooling of Yb-doped Silica Glass
September 6, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Luke Emmert on Characterizing fluence-limiting defects in optical coatings for high power lasers
August 30, 2022
The OSE Program's New Student Orientation
August 18, 2022
OSE 2nd Year Student Talks - Fall 2022
June 15, 2022
Ms. Xuemei Wang dissertation defense on Integrated Grating couplers on-a-chip: characterizations and applications
June 15, 2022
Dr. Arash Mafi, A&S Interim Dean and OSE Faculty Member Gives Summer Lecture Series on Nonlinear Fiber Optics
June 10, 2022
Mr. James Wymer - 2022 Optical Science and Engineering, (OSE) Best Master’s Project Award Winner
May 13, 2022
Mr. Benjamin Q. Oliker - 2022 Optical Science and Engineering, (OSE) Best Dissertation Award Winner
May 13, 2022
2022 OSE Spring and Summer Graduates
May 9, 2022
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Farnood Mirkhosravi on Gamma and Neutron Irradiation Impacts on Ga-polar and N-polar GaN based diodes
April 26, 2022
Joint OSE and CQuIC Seminar by Dr. Ramanathan on Characterizing coherence times of solid state spin defects
April 26, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Pauli Kehayias on High-Resolution Magnetic Microscopy Results Using NV Centers in Diamond
April 5, 2022
OSE Alumnus, Dr. Sheng Liu Named Research Assistant Professor in the UNM Physics and Astronomy Department
March 21, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Nathan Jackson on PiezoMEMS: Overview of Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation, and Research Opportunities
March 1, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Nathan Jackson on PiezoMEMS: Overview of Multidisciplinary Research, Innovation, and Research Opportunities
March 1, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Kirk on Donor-Acceptor Systems Provide Insight into Charge Separation, Charge Transport, and Excited State Processes
February 23, 2022
OSE Faculty Member, Dr. Francesca Cavallo has Received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award
February 14, 2022
OSE Seminar by Professor Darcy Barron on Precision Measurements of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
February 14, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Sakineh Chabi on Two-dimensional Silicon Carbide: Bridging Theory and Experiment
February 9, 2022
Professor Daniel Feezell Named the OSE General Chair
February 2, 2022
OSE Alumnus and Past Chair, Ganesh Balakrishnan Named New Director at New Mexico EPSCoR
February 1, 2022
Special Joint OSE Seminar and Physics Colloquium by Professor Peter J. Delfyett on Ultrafast Semiconductor Diode Lasers
February 1, 2022
OSE Distinguished Faculty Member, Dr. Mansoor Sheik-Bahae Presents Three Papers at Photonics West 2022
January 25, 2022
OSE Seminar by Dr. Habteyes on Localized electromagnetic field as omnipotent probe of surface and interface phenomena
January 25, 2022
OSE PHD Student, Mingyang Zhang Presents Paper on High power in-well pumped MECSEL emitting at 1178 nm for sodium guide star applications
January 25, 2022
OSE Faculty Member and Interim Dean of A&S, Dr. Arash Mafi Presents Two Papers at Photonics West 2022
January 25, 2022
OSE Distinguished Faculty Member, Dr. Marek Osinski Presents Two Papers at Photonics West 2022
January 25, 2022
OSE Faculty Member, Dr. Jean Claude Diels presents paper on Increasing signal to noise by enhancing sensitivity and decreasing noise
January 25, 2022
OSE PHD Student, Jackson Kock Presents Paper on Power scaling of Yb-based optical cryo-coolers
January 25, 2022
UNM and OSE physicist's team investigates cause of haziness in 19th century daguerreotypes
January 17, 2022
Joint OSE/ECE Seminar by Dr. Stavroula Foteinopoulou on When conventional "wisdom" fails: Designing slow-light waveguides
December 8, 2021
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Brian Kamer on Ultrafast spectroscopy: Filament Pumped Nitrogen
December 2, 2021
OSE Seminar by Dr. Ganesh Subramania on III-Nitride Nanophotonics
December 1, 2021
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Luke Jameson Horstman on Intracavity Phase Interferometry Based Fiber Sensors
November 24, 2021
OSE Seminar by Dr. Andreas Velten on Seeing around corners
November 15, 2021
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Vineeth Sasidharan on Interferometric Lithography- An approach to large area a
November 9, 2021
Ms. Subhashree Seth, OSE PHD Student Showcases her Research at the UNM Shared Knowledge Conference
November 9, 2021
Mr. Dominic Bosomtwi, OSE PHD Student, Showcases his Research at the UNM Shared Knowledge Conference
November 8, 2021
Mr. Mingyang Zhang, OSE PHD Student Showcases his Research at the UNM Shared Knowledge Conference
November 8, 2021
OSE PHD Student - Mr. Brian Topper, OSE PHD Student Showcases his Research at the UNM Shared Knowledge Conference
November 8, 2021
2021 Laser Instrumentation Award Recipients Announced – OSE Alumnus, Dr. Scott Diddams Named
October 25, 2021
Joint OSE and ECE Departmental Seminar By Dr. Daniel Feezell on Modulation Response and Carrier Dynamics in III-Nitride Optoelectronics
October 20, 2021
OSE Seminar by UNM Distinguished Professor, Dr. Marek Osiński on Strongly Injection-Locked Semiconductor Ring Lasers
October 19, 2021
OSE Seminar by Dr. Kathrin Spendier, on "Dual-frequency nematic liquid crystal based optical filters and their application in fluorescence microscopy"
September 30, 2021
OSE Faculty, Dr. Francesca Cavallo Gives Invited Talk at UCMMT 2021
September 30, 2021
OSE PHD Student - Mr. Alhassan Ahmed Wins 2021 William G. Larsen, PhD Memorial Award for Best Teaching Assistant
September 28, 2021
The Shared Knowledge Conference
September 27, 2021
OSE Seminar by Dr. Janis Smits on "Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond"
September 27, 2021
OSE Seminar by Dr. Keith Lidke on Using Optics to Observe and Quantify Single Molecule Interactions of Proteins in Cells
September 14, 2021
Special Joint OSE Seminar and ECE Graduate Seminar by Distinguished Professor Edl Schamiloglu on What is Relativistic Magnetron?
September 9, 2021
OSE Seminar by Dr. Joonas Iivanainenon on Optically pumped magnetometers for magnetoencephalography
September 7, 2021
CHTM Director and OSE Affiliated Faculty Member, Professor Arash Mafi Named Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences*
August 29, 2021
OSE Seminar by Dr. Luke Emmert on Laser-induced damage in optical coatings for high power lasers
August 27, 2021
OSE Seminar by OSE Alumnus, Dr. Sheng Liu on 4Pi Single Molecule Localization Microscopy
March 24, 2021
OSE Seminar by Prof. Sang E. Han on Lessons from Nature for Stability in Optical Scattering Nanostructures
March 9, 2021
OSE Seminar by Dr. Raktim Sarma, Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
February 17, 2021
UNM’s Carlton Caves awarded Micius Quantum Prize 2020
February 7, 2021
OSE Seminar by Professor Daniel Feezell on Nonpolar GaN-based VCSELs with lattice-matched nanoporous distributed Bragg reflector mirrors*
February 2, 2021
OSE Seminar by Professor Daniel Feezell on Nonpolar GaN-based VCSELs with lattice-matched nanoporous distributed Bragg reflector mirrors*
February 2, 2021
OSE Seminar by Dr. Peter Schwindt on A multi-channel magnetoencephalography system using optically pumped magnetometers
November 16, 2020
OSE Seminar by Prof. Stefan Posse on The Human MR Imaging Research Lab – from Biophysics Research to Clinical Applications
November 11, 2020
OSE Faculty Member and Distinguished Professor Edl Schamiloglu looks back on three decades at UNM
November 5, 2020
PAÍS officially opens with virtual ribbon-cutting ceremony
October 27, 2020
OSE Seminar by Prof. Tonmoy Chakraborty on Imaging for physiologically relevant 3D micro-environment
October 27, 2020
OSE Dissertation Defense by Ning Hsu on Ultrashort Pulses and Frequency Combs: Characterizations, Manipulations, and Applications
October 17, 2020
OSE Seminar by Prof. Ray Kostuk on Holographic Applications in Medical Imaging, Photovoltaic Energy Systems, and Augmented Reality Eyewear
September 30, 2020
OSE Seminar by Prof. Alejandro Manjavacas on Lattice resonances in arrays of metallic nanostructures
September 22, 2020
OSE Seminar by Dr. Alex Y. Song on New topics on the controlling of light on a small scale
September 8, 2020
OSE Seminar by Dr. Davide Priante on New platforms for high-power optically-pumped semiconductor disk lasers
September 2, 2020
OSE Seminar by Dr. Viktoriia Babicheva on Lattice Effects in Plasmonic and van der Waals Metasurfaces
August 25, 2020
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Esmaeil Mobini Souchelmaei on Radiation-balanced fiber lasers and amplifiers
May 20, 2020
OSE Professor Victor Acosta Receives Two Major Honors -NSF CAREER Award and Cottrell Scholar award from RSCA
May 12, 2020
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Jungwei Meng on the Development of All Solid-State Optical Cryo-cooler
April 21, 2020
UNM guidelines on COVID-19
March 12, 2020
OSE Seminar by Dr. Ramon Collazo on Growth and point defect control of AlGaN for UV laser diodes
March 10, 2020
OSE Dissertation Defense by Mr. Saeid Rostami on Mid-IR Optical Refrigeration and Radiation Balanced Lasers
March 5, 2020
OSE Seminar by Dr. Alejandro Aceves on Recent trends in nonlinear optics and photonics: A mathematical modeling perspective
February 24, 2020
OSE Seminar by Cristina Rodriguez on Next-generation optical imaging methods for probing the nervous system
February 14, 2020
OSE Seminar by Prof. Emmanouil (Manos) Kioupakis on Understanding and mitigating the efficiency challenges of nitride light emitters
February 11, 2020
OSE Special Seminar by Prof. Piotr Perlin on Next generation of InGaN lasers – in search of new functionality and better integration
February 7, 2020
OSE Seminar by Dr. Clifford K. Ho on Overview of Concentrating Solar Power and Research Needs
February 3, 2020
OSE Seminar by Prof. Frédéric Grillot on Chaos cryptography in semiconductor lasers: From promises to reality
January 27, 2020
OSE Seminar by Dr. Patrick Rambo on Laser Development at Sandia’s Z-Backlighter Facility
January 21, 2020
The OSE Program's 2019 Fall Graduates
December 13, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Aleem Siddiqui on RF optical signal processing using micro-scale phononic crystals
December 4, 2019
Dr. Manjavacas's Group: Nanoscale manipulation of light leads to exciting new advancement
December 2, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Rohit P. Prasankumar on Shedding New Light on Dirac Materials with Nonlinear Optics
November 15, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Francesca Cavallo on Bent into Shapes: Self-assembly of Inorganic Sheets
November 8, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Ganesh Subramania on Nanophotonics for Manipulating Nanoscale Behavior of Light
November 5, 2019
2019 Shared Knowledge Conference - Nov. 7, 2019 at Hodgin Hall
November 5, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Adam Schwartzberg on Finding and surpassing coherence limitations in superconducting qubits
October 29, 2019
PhD Dissertation Defense by Shima Nezhadbadeh on Integrated Chirped-Grating Spectrometer on-a-Chip
October 28, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Jens Biegert on Intense light in the mid-IR
October 14, 2019
Joint OSE Seminar and Physics Colloquium by Dr. Konrad Lehnert on The sound of quantum mechanics
September 30, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Mariana Fazio on High index materials with low mechanical loss for gravitational wave detectors
September 27, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Robert Opila on In Operando XPS Study on Atomic Layer Etching of Fe and Co Using Cl2 and Acetylacetone or Hexafluoroacetylacetone
September 24, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Nathan Jackson on PiezoMEMS: A Decade of Research and Innovation
September 17, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Tara Drake on Microresonator Optical Frequency Combs
September 10, 2019
SPIE Seminar Series by Dr. Robert Lieberman on Scientific Life Outside of the University and Optical Fiber Sensors: Submicron to Suprakilometer
September 5, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Tito Busani on Recent advancements of III-N materials in probe scanning lithography, microscopy and NSOM
September 3, 2019
OSE PHD Students Yasser Silani and Forrest Hubert Craft High Tech Microscope from Scratch
August 26, 2019
Dissertation Defense by James Philip Hendrie on Tailored Frequency Comb Structures and Their Sensing Applications
August 11, 2019
Dr. Marek Osinski Promoted to Distinguished Professor
August 11, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. Alejandro Manjavacas on Collective effects on periodic arrays of plasmonic nanostructures
April 30, 2019
Joint CINT, OSE, & CHTM Seminar by Dr. Hou-Tong Chen on Active Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
April 24, 2019
OSE Seminar by Dr. R. Jason Jones, OSE Alumni on Dual-comb spectroscopy of laser induced plasmas
April 17, 2019
OSE Seminar Series by Dr. Abdelghani Laraoui on Spin waves: from magnon spintronics to coupling spin qubits in diamond
March 29, 2019
OSE Seminar Series by Dr. Angel Flores on High Power All-Fiber Lasers at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
March 20, 2019
OSE Seminar with Dr. Wolfgang Rudolph on Not your typical mirror: Toward the development of a frequency tripling mirrror
February 27, 2019
OSE Seminar with Alumni, Dr. Arman Rashidi on Carrier dynamics in III-nitride light-emitting diodes: An RF approach to understand efficiency issues
February 16, 2019
Special OSA Student Chapter & OSE Seminar with Dr. Azad Siahmakoun on Plasmonic Light Coupling for Silicon Photonic Devices
February 15, 2019
OSE Seminar with Dr. Andrew (AJ) Metcalf on Designing the First Deployable Infrared Astrocomb and Enabling the Search for Nearby Habitable Worlds
February 12, 2019
OSE Seminar with Dr. Arash Mafi on Nonlinear and Quantum Optics in Multimode Optical Fibers
February 5, 2019
OSE Seminar with Dr. Terefe Habteyes on Plasmonic coupling in sub-nanometer separation distances How important is quantum mechanical effect?
January 30, 2019
SPIE-OSE Seminar with Mr. John Josephon on The Future of Optics and Photonics Employment
January 25, 2019
OSE Seminar with Dr. rer. nat. Holger Eisele on Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy for Semiconductor Analysis
January 15, 2019
OSE 2018 Summer and Fall graduates
December 17, 2018
OSE Dissertation Defense with Sharmin Haq, Ph.D. Candidate
November 27, 2018
OSE Seminar with Dr. Garnett Bryan on Atom-based solid-state photonics, plasmonics and many-body physics: Nanotechnology goes atomic scale
November 26, 2018
OSE Dissertation Defense with Mr. Behnam Abaie, Ph.D. Candidate
November 26, 2018
2018 Shared Knowledge Conference - Nov. 7, 2018 at Hodgin Hall
October 30, 2018
Cross-discipline collaboration hub set to open in Fall 2019
October 30, 2018
NSF announces $750,000 EQuIP award for quantum information processing to OSE Professor Dr. Osinski
October 30, 2018
OSE Seminar Joint with CQuIC with Dr. Alejandro Manjavacas on Casimir Forces and Torques on Nanostructures
October 27, 2018
OSE Ph.D. & M.S. Defenses
April 25, 2025
Program News
OSE Program's 40th Anniversary Video
April 16, 2024
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OSE Seminar by Prof. Darcy Barron on Precision Measurements of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
February 2, 2022
Title: Precision Measurements of the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Time: Thursday, Feb 17, 2022 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Locat ... [Read More]
Womxn in Physics Talk - Dr. Susan Clark of Sandia National Laboratories
April 5, 2021
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2021 Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM Location: via Zoom Join Zoom Meeting https://unm.zoom.us/j/97 ... [Read More]
OSE Dissertation Defense by Arman Rashidi on Carrier Dynamics in High-Speed III-nitride Light-Emitting Diodes for Visible-Light Communication
October 27, 2018
Date: Friday, November 02, 2018 Time: 2:00 PM Location: CHTM, Room 103 Map to CHTM: http://chtm.unm.edu/about/map-di ... [Read More]
OSE Seminar Joint with CQuiC with Dr. Zheshen Zhang on Quantum information science
October 22, 2018
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2018 Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Location: Physics, Room 190 Map to Physics: http://physics.unm.ed ... [Read More]
OSE Seminar with Dr. TJ Xia on High Speed and High Capacity Optical Transport Network
October 16, 2018
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 Time: 11:00 AM to Noon Location: CHTM, Room 101 Map to CHTM: http://chtm.unm ... [Read More]
OSE Seminar with Dr. Avadh Saxena of LANL on Non-reciprocity and Broken Symmetry: From Photonics to Materials
September 21, 2018
OSE Seminar with Dr. Diego Dalvit on Tailoring the Quantum Vacuum
September 14, 2018
OSE Seminar with Dr. Victor Acosta on Diamond quantum sensing
September 4, 2018
OSE Seminar with Dr. John Grey on Resolving multi-excitonic interactions in single conjugated polymer chains
August 24, 2018
OSE Special Seminar with Dr. Brian M. Anderson on Thulium doped all-fiber amplifiers beyond 2.1 μm
June 5, 2018
Mostafa Peysokhan Named Finalist For Innovative Idea
April 24, 2018
OSE Seminar by Dr. Mercedeh Khajavikhan on Non-Hermitian Photonics, Optics at an Exceptional Point
March 27, 2018
OSE Seminar by Dr. Sang Eon Han on Surpassing the Conventional Limit of Response to Heat Radiation by Nanophotonic Structures
February 26, 2018
UNM researchers tackle next gen power devices
February 23, 2018
Dr. Mafi Named CHTM's New Director
February 21, 2018
ECE professor wins NSF CAREER Award to channel wave chaos into order
February 21, 2018
OSE Seminar by Dr. Alessandro Alabastri on Heat dissipation in nanostructures: from plasmonic particles to solar powered distillation devices
February 19, 2018
OSA student chapter talk by Dr. David Bomse, President of Mesa Photonics LLC on Laser-Based Gas Detection
February 18, 2018
OSE Seminar by Dr. Stavroula Foteinopoulou on Extreme infrared photonics with phonon-polaritons
February 13, 2018
OSE Seminar by Dr. Terefe Habteyes on Seeing and manipulating the world beyond the diffraction limit
January 30, 2018
OSE Seminar by Dr. Igal Brener on Dielectric Resonator Metasurfaces: Optical Magnetism, Wavefront Control and Optical Nonlinearities
January 24, 2018
OSE Special Seminar by Dr. Boris Kiefer on “Materials Research and Education for a Better Future”
November 29, 2017
OSE Special Seminar by Dr. Michael Trubetskov on Optical Multilayer Coatings for Ultrafast Lasers
November 7, 2017
Dr. Armin Doerry of Sandia National Laboratories will be teaching a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) seminar at CHTM
October 31, 2017
Guiding the random laser
October 25, 2017
Mafi named 2018 Optical Society Fellow
October 18, 2017
Professors Sheik-Bahae and Brueck in Optics Letters top 100 article citations of all time
August 21, 2017
Celebrating women in STEM at UNM
May 13, 2017
Ganesh Balakrishnan, Payman Zarkesh-Ha are Co-PIs on project developing next-generation satellite electronics
March 1, 2017
Apply for SPIE Scholarships by February 15th
February 7, 2017
Call opens for 2017 Women In STEM awards at UNM
February 7, 2017
Professor Terefe Habteyes receives NSF CAREER Award
January 20, 2017
OSE alumnus Victor Gamiz, who earned his UNM Ph.D. in 1995, is elected 2017 OSA Fellow
November 18, 2016
OSE alumnus Jeff Nicholson, who earned his UNM Ph.D. in 1991, is elected 2017 OSA Fellow
November 18, 2016
Patent issued to Ravinder Jain and Mani Hossein-Zadeh, OSE faculty, for WGM-based sensors
November 15, 2016
OSE doctoral candidate Behsan Behzadi recognized with ASSL Student Outstanding Poster Prize at conference
November 11, 2016
First OSE Distinguished Lecture Series featured nanophotonics expert Nader Engheta, Nov. 2-4
October 5, 2016
Year of Light Event at SUB is UNM's Top Research Story of 2015
January 15, 2016
Graduate Student Paper Competition Winners
October 1, 2015
Optics, photonics players say NM can be global leader
September 25, 2015
UNM's Year of Light Event attracts 500
September 25, 2015
New Mexico Celebration of the International Year Of Light
September 25, 2015
Optics, photonics potential on display at conference
September 23, 2015
New Quantum Optics track
September 15, 2015
Professor Daniel Feezell wins a half million dollar National Science Foundation (NSF) grant
January 5, 2015
Dr. Marek Osinski elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow
December 5, 2014
Sanjay Krishna, Named 2014 IEEE Fellow
January 15, 2014
Brueck, Moler are First UNM Presidential Medal Recipients
December 9, 2013
Majeed M. Hayat Named 2014 IEEE Fellow
December 3, 2013
