Introduction

The ACMS is composed of a highly specialized and multi-disciplinary scientific research team including faculty, senior researchers and graduate students.

Jerome V. Moloney

Director of ACMS
Professor of Mathematics and Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Mathematical modeling and simulation of photonics systems including semiconductor lasers, fiber lasers, photonic Bragg and photonic crystal fibers.
• Fundamental theory of semiconductor lasers including microscopic physics.
• Modeling high power femtosecond atmospheric light strings.
• Nonlinear theory of partial differential equations and chaos synchronization in extended complex spatiotemporal interacting systems systems.
• Sophisticated algorithm development for large scale computational photonics systems simulations including adaptive mesh refinement and parallelization on distributed and shared memory supercomputer platforms.

Moysey Brio

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests

• Computational Science; numerical pdes
• Maxwell solvers in complex media in time and frequency domain; Algorithms for numerical inversion of the Laplace trasnform
• Photonics

Miroslav Kolesik

Associate Professor of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Semiconductor laser simulation
• Femtosecond light-pulse propagation

Jörg Hader

Associate Research Professor of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Semiconductor many-body physics
• Carrier recombination processes in semiconductors, nonequilibrium dynamics in semiconductor lasers
• Modeling of vertical external cavity surface emitting lasers, microscopic optoelectronics of wide bandgap nitride-based and mid- to far-infrared semiconductor lasers and laser diodes.

Pavel Polynkin

Associate Research Professor of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• High-intensity ultrafast laser science
• Plasma generation in intense laser fields Material processing with ultrafast lasers
• Free-space communications through turbid media
• Nonlinear wavelength conversion
• Optical fiber lasers and amplifiers
• Optical sensors

Colm Dineen

Assistant Research Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests

• Computational electrodynamics; Wave propagation and interaction processes;
• Nanoscale plasmonics, microcavity and photonic crystals;
• Object-Oriented software development for photonic applications; Numerical analysis of PDEs;
• Distributed and Parallel computing; Scientific visualization.

Alan Newell

Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests

• Optics and ocean waves and turbulence and pattern formation

Per Kristen Jakobsen

Professor of Applied Mathematics

Research Interests

• Multiscale asymptotics for nonlinear wave fenomena
• Quantum mechanical fluctuation forces, Casimir forces
• Boundary integral methods

Paris Panagiotopoulos

Postdoctoral Research Associate of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Theoretical study and numerical modeling of nonlinear optical phenomena -Nonlinear optics (filamentation)
• Propagation of high power non-diffracting wavepackets (Airy, Bessel)
• Nonlinear pulse propagation in periodic materials (filamentation tailoring, light bullets)

Anton Rudenko

Postdoctoral Research Associate of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Laser-matter interaction and laser-induced modifications in dielectrics, semiconductors, and metals
• Nonlinear propagation in transparent materials; Nanophotonics and Plasmonics
• Thermo-elastic, hydrodynamic, and molecular dynamics simulations

Aoxue Han

Ph.D Student of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Computational electrodynamics; Wave propagation and interaction processes;
• Nanoscale plasmonics, microcavity and photonic crystals;
• Nonlinear propagation in transparent materials; Nanophotonics and Plasmonics

Thibault Bondaz

Research Scholar

Research Interests

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Michael Hastings

Ph.D Student of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Computational Modeling
• Computational electrodynamics; Wave propagation and interaction processes;
• Theoretical study and numerical modeling of nonlinear optical phenomena -Nonlinear optics (filamentation)
• Propagation of high power non-diffracting wavepackets (Airy, Bessel)
• Nonlinear pulse propagation in periodic materials (filamentation tailoring, light bullets)

Simon Tsaoussis

Ph.D Student of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Vertical External Cavity SEmiconductor Laser (VECSEL) Modeling and Testing
• Rectification of computational models with Lab results
• Ultrafast Laser Applications and development
• Semiconductor modeling and manufacturing

Jalen Cates

Ph.D Student of Applied Mathematics

Research Interests

• Computational Modeling
• Computational electrodynamics; Wave propagation and interaction processes;
• Novel propogation algorithms

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