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.

Nicolaas Bloembergen

Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1981. Professor of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Nuclear and electronic magnetic resonance
• Solid state masers and lasers, and especially nonlinear optics and spectroscopy
• Theory of nonlinear polarizability, the extension of Maxwell's equations to include nonlinear source terms and the interaction of multiple waves in the bulk and at the boundaries of nonlinear media

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 Research 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

Yushi Kaneda

Associate Research Professor of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Solid-state lasers
• Optically pumped semiconductor lasers
• Fiber lasers
• Nonlinear frequency conversion

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.

Mike Yarborough

Research Associate of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Solid-state lasers
• Optically pumped semiconductor lasers
• Nonlinear frequency conversion

Bernard Pasenow

Assistant Research Associate of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Microscopic quantum theory for an interacting two-component plasma
• Ultrashort pulse coupling to plasmas
• Microscopic semiconductor laser theory (absorption/gain and PL calculations)
• Direct band-to-band and phonon-assisted Auger losses
• Phonon assisted processes in semiconductors
• III-V wurtzite nitride materials (e.g. InGaN quantum wells)

Alan Newell

Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests

• Optics and ocean waves and turbulence and pattern formation

Karl Glasner

Associate Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests

• Materials science: copolymers, grain boundary motion, phase field modelingFluid Dynamics: thin films, contact line dynamics, bioconvection, electrowetting and microfluidics
• Optically pumped semiconductor lasers
• Interface dynamics: computation, coarsening, pattern formation

Shankar Venkataramani

Associate Research Professor of Mathematics

Research Interests

• Condensed matter physics

Tsuei-Lian Wang

Graduate Associate, Research Ph.D. Student of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Optically pumped semiconductor lasers
• Solid State lasers
• Nonlinear frequency conversion

YiYing Lai

Ph.D. Student of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Solid-state lasers
• Optically pumped semiconductor lasers
• Nonlinear frequency conversion

Jeffrey Brown

Ph.D. Student of Optical Sciences

Research Interests

• Ultra-Intense Femtosecond lasers
• laser beam propagation in turbulent atmosphere
• ultra short pulse and high power fiber lasers

Patrick Whalen

Ph.D Student of Applied Mathematics

Research Interests

• Pulse Propagation Models
• Spectral Methods
• Nonlinear PDETBA

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