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Applied Optics and Optical Materials at the Colorado School of Mines
Colorado Photonics Industry Association Meeting 13 November 2001
Charles Durfee
State-supported engineering and science school - since 1874 - 3,000 students (17% graduate) - high admission standards
Undergraduate Education at CSM Applied Optics and Optical Materials Colorado School of Mines
Features of Curriculum:� EPICS: interdisciplinary design project� Field session: laboratory and computer skills� Senior design project: research/design experience� Interships/coops
Engineering Physics� nationally recognized program: >25 graduates in physics/yr� solid engineering background: ABET accredited� career paths - 1:1:1 industry:grad school:other� 5 year BS/MS degree programs� PhD program: research in Optics, Nuclear, Cond. Matter
Engineering� programs in ME, EE, ChemE� ABET accredited
Engineering/Engineering Physics Applied Optics and Optical Materials Colorado School of Mines
Applied optics and optical materials research Applied Optics and Optical Materials Colorado School of Mines
New research building: � Applied optics (Squier, Durfee, Kowalski)� Center for Commercial Applications of Combustion in Space (Schowengerdt)
Open Aug. 2002
Physics/materials science: contact Collins
Optics and Laser Physics Physics Department Colorado School of Mines
Laser physics and ultrafast optics (Durfee, Squier, Kowalski, Young)� Ultrafast laser amplifier systems � Short-pulse UV, VUV sources� Diode-pumped solid-state lasers/amps � Soliton physics � frequency-shifted feedback lasers, laser gyro � fiber-optic metrology and characterization � frequency-stabilized lasers� Semiconductor lasers (Collins)
Ultrafast frequency mixing
Frequency-resolvedoptical gating
Imaging Systems & Signal Processing (Linne)
�Double-Image camera� Gated Integrator camera� CMOS Active- Pixel, phase- sensitive detector array
Squier group Physics Department Colorado School of Mines
Dynamic, three-dimensional, nonlinear microscopy:� Third harmonic generation microscopy� Multiphoton absorption microscopy
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� Ultrafast x-ray sources (4-40 keV)� Time-resolved x-ray diffraction - milli-Å spatial, fs time resolution
Micromachining with femtosecond pulses:� Multifocal approach: high-precision, high throughput� Sub-micron feature size
Optical characterization of materials Physics Department Colorado School of Mines
Non-destructive testing� thin-film characterization (Furtak, Durfee)� nonlinear spectroscopy of interfaces/monolayers
Vacuum Spectroscopic Ellipsometer 2000 Colorado Technology Transfer Award
Collins group: �Microscopy: NSOM, AFM, TEM� Excitation spectroscopy� low-temperature photoluminescence� time-resolved optical studies� temperature-dependent Hall effect� C-V, I-V, photoresponse
Topography Photocurrent
Single-molecule microscopy(Sutter)
Materials research and photovoltaics Physics Department Colorado School of Mines
Photovoltaics: growth and characterization (Collins)Transparent conducting oxides: (Wolden, Collins)
� Photovoltaic, electrochromic devices� Display Technology, Organic LEDs� plasma-enhanced, thermal CVD growth (Wolden)� characterization
Polycrystalline semiconductors, magneto-optics (Collins)
Nanostructured materials, quantum dot arrays (Sutter, Mateeva)
Plasma-enhanced CVD
Pump/Probe Absorption Spectroscopy� Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing
Short-pulsemeasurements,imaging systems
Laser Spectroscopy & Sensing
� Cavity Ringdown Laser Absorption Spectroscopy� Laser Induced Fluorescence� Planar LIF
Combustion research and diagnostics Engineering Division Colorado School of Mines
Linne: Parker:
Optical monitoringof combustion
Laser based particle sizing
� Reuben Collins rtcollin@mines.edu, 273-3851
� Charles Durfee cdurfee@mines.edu, 273-3894
� Tom Furtak tfurtak@mines.edu, 273-3843
� Frank Kowalski fkowalsk@mines.edu, 273-3845
� Jeff Squier jsquier@ucsd.edu, 858-822-3434
� Peter Sutter psutter@mines.edu, 273-3850
� Matt Young mmyoung@mines.edu, 273-3862
� Mark Linne mlinne@mines.edu, 273-3609
� Terry Parker tparker@mines.edu 273-3657
� Colin Wolden cwolden@mines.edu, 273-3544
� Paul Jagodzinski pauljago@mines.edu, 273-3622
Faculty Contacts Applied Optics and Optical Materials Colorado School of Mines
Physics:
Engineering:
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