Photonic Materials and Devices

Victor Acosta

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Associate Professor

Physics and Astronomy
CHTM

Quantum sensing, NV centers, biological and chemical imaging

Email: 
vmacosta@unm.edu
Phone: 
510.717.6147
Office: 
Center for High Technology Materials

Viktoriia Babicheva

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Assistant Professor

ECE

Nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials, optical waveguides and modulators

Email: 
vbb@unm.edu
Phone: 
765.714.3768

Ganesh Balakrishnan

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Professor, Director of EPSCoR

ECE
CHTM

Semiconductor lasers, VECSELs, photovoltaics, epitaxial growth (MBE), narrow-bandgap materials

Email: 
gunny@unm.edu
Phone: 
505.272.7970

Tito Busani

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Assistant Professor

ECE

Integrated optoelectronics, optomechanic modulators and resonators, quantum fabrication, photovoltaics

Email: 
busanit@unm.edu
Phone: 
505.239.4202

Christos Christodoulou

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Distinguished Professor, Dean of the School of Engineering

ECE

Antennas (reconfigurable, high power microwaves, wireless communications)

Email: 
christos@eece.unm.edu
Phone: 
505.277.6580

Tara Drake

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Assistant Professor

Physics and Astronomy

Frequency combs, nonlinear and quantum optics, integrated photonics

Email: 
drakete@unm.edu
Phone: 
505.277.2616

Daniel Feezell

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Associate Professor, OSE General Chair

ECE
CHTM

Optoelectronics, VCSELs, LEDs, epitaxial growth (MOCVD), wide-bandgap materials

Email: 
dfeezell@unm.edu
Phone: 
505.272.7823

Terefe Habteyes

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Associate Professor

Chemistry
CHTM

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

Email: 
habteyes@unm.edu
Phone: 
505.277.8845

Arash Mafi

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Professor, Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences

Physics and Astronomy
CHTM

Quantum and nonlinear optics, fiber optics, laser cooling

Email: 
mafi@unm.edu

Alejandro Manjavacas

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Assistant Professor

Physics and Astronomy

Nanophotonics, plasmonics, metamaterials, heat transfer, Casimir force

Email: 
manjavacas@unm.edu
Phone: 
505.277.1064

Marek Osinski

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Professor, Distinguished Professor

ECE
Physics and Astronomy
CHTM

Optoelectronics, nanotechnology, quantum photonic integrated circuits, colloidal nanoparticles, biomedical applications

Email: 
osinski@chtm.unm.edu
Phone: 
505.272.7812

Wolfgang Rudolph

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Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Physics and Astronomy

Ultra-fast optics, biophysics, laser damage, dielectric coatings

Email: 
wrudolph@unm.edu
Phone: 
505.277.2081

Mansoor Sheik-Bahae

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Distinguished Professor

Physics and Astronomy

Laser cooling of solids, terahertz optics, ultrafast optics

Email: 
msb@unm.edu
Phone: 
505.272.2080