Optics Club News
Congratulations!
Professor Marina Radulaski Receives NSF CAREER Award
Professor Marina Radulaski has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award for the project entitled Scalable Quantum Photonics based on Color Center Integration with Angle-etched Silicon Carbide Devices. Her group explores potential of quantum technologies to further our understanding of nature’s fundamental phenomena, as well as to provide unprecedented infrastructure for powerful computation and safe communication. In this project, her group focuses on two desired properties. First, the light-based solutions benefit from the advantage of long-distance connectivity; and second, the solid-state platforms support advantageous device scaling. Prof. Radulaski’s NSF CAREER project sets to explore the intersection of these two paradigms: optically active defects in semiconductors, called color centers. More specifically, the technical part of the project aims to solve a challenging problem of integrating color centers into nanophotonic devices, thus improving the quantum hardware performance for applications in quantum communication, computation and simulation.
Learn More About Quantum Photonics
Quantum photonics in triangular-cross-section nanodevices in silicon carbide
Silicon carbide is evolving as a prominent solid-state platform for the realization of quantum information processing hardware. Angle-etched nanodevices are emerging as a solution to photonic integration in bulk substrates where color centers are best defined...
Here, we bring more information about Professor Radulaski's group. Check these wonderfull papers and learn more about the Quantum Photonics
Roadmap on Integrated Quantum Photonics
In the 1960s, computer engineers had to address the tyranny of numbers problem in which improvements in computing and its applications required integrating an increasing number of electronic components. From the first computers powered by vacuum tubes to the billions of transistors fabricated on a single microprocessor chip today, transformational advances in integration have led to remarkable processing performance and new unforeseen applications in computing...
Towards a Fast and Large Field of View Imaging
The high speed and large field of view imaging have been very challenging in the conventional imaging modalities. Recently, Professor Weijian Yang's group reported a method that combines optimized pattern illumination and compressive sensing algorithm for high speed, high resolution, and large field of view imaging. This work was also highlighted by the Photonics Research journal and selected as cover!
Deep compressed imaging via optimized pattern scanning
The need for high-speed imaging in applications such as biomedicine, surveillance, and consumer electronics has called for new developments in imaging systems. While the industrial effort continuously pushes the advance of silicon focal plane array image sensors, imaging through a single-pixel detector has gained significant interest thanks to the development of computational algorithms...
The first Optics Club Symposium!
Symposium Recap
Our first Optics Club symposium was on Feb. 26, and we were really glad with the great turn out! The event featured Keynote talks, lectures from UC Davis professors, poster presentations, and a panel discussion on "Research during the COVID-19 pandemic".
Congratulations to the Poster Presentation Winners!
First place: Brent Weyers, from the Marcu Lab in Biomedical Engineering Department, "Intraoperative Label-Free Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging for Real-Time Delineation of Oral Cavity and Oropharyngeal Cancer"
Second place: Melisa Gulseren, from the Applied Micro/Nano-Electromagnetics Research Laboratory in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, "Metasurface Design for Sensing Applications"
Acknowledgement and Feedback
We want to thank you for all of your enthusiasm and engagement with our symposium. We also want to thank all of the students and professors who helped us put this symposium together: Randy Carney for answering all of our emails quickly, giving great advice and help; Weijian Yang for his help with poster session participants and advice; Marina Radulaski for advising on the symposium organization; Victor Chiu for being the chair of the COVID-19 panel and helping with the flyer; Randy Carney, Weijian Yang, Robert Zawadzki, William Putnam, and Saikat Guha for judging posters and giving advice during the COVID-19 panel; all the poster presenters for their great posters and discussions; all the corresponding professors for encouraging their students to participate in the poster session; and of course, all of the presenters for their interesting talks.
The UC Davis Optics Club would like to host the symposium again next year so please send us any advice to ucdoptics@ucdavis.edu on how to make our event better. Hope to see you in person in the symposium next year!
Job Openings
Postdoc position openings in the Biophotonics Laboratory
Biophotonics Labortory
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The Biophotonics Laboratory is best known for researching and engineering fluorescence lifetime-based instrumentation and multimodal imaging systems that enable studies of the molecular, metabolic and morphologic changes in living systems ranging from biological cells and animal models to human patients. Their research targets unique applications that impact clinical management of critical human disease, with an emphasis on three distinct areas: cardiovascular systems (intravascular diagnostics), oncology (intraoperative delineation of surgical margins) and regenerative medicine (tissue engineering).
Postdoctoral Position in Biomedical Optics
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This Position is open for applicants with experimental research experience in biomedical optics. The Biophotonics Laboratory is looking for highly motivated individuals with interest in research and applications of optical spectroscopy and imaging to support the development and clinical validation of novel optical imaging techniques for image-guided surgery and interventional cardiology. See details here.
Postdoctoral Position in Data Analysis and Image Processing
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This position is open for applicants with strong expertise and experience in data analysis and image processing. The Biophotonics Laboratory is looking for highly motivated individuals with interest in research and applications of data analytics methods to support the development and clinical validation of novel optical imaging techniques for image-guided surgery of brain and head and neck cancer and other medical interventions. See details here.
Online resources
Developing Next-Generation Multidimensional Optical Imaging Devices 04/06/2021, 9:00 - 10:00.
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Fundamentals about ultrafast photography, 3D fast light field imaging
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Research advances in ultrafast photography, 3D fast light field imaging
Metasurfaces: New Generation Building Blocks for Emerging Optics 04/08/2021, 9:00 - 10:00.
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What are metasurfaces
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How metasurfaces can control the light-matter interactions
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What applications metasurfaces can offer
Quantum Simulating Lattice Gauge Theories – High-Energy Physics at Ultra-Cold Temperatures 04/22/2021, 7:00 - 8:00.
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Recent progress towards quantum simulation of gauge theories using ultracold atoms, trapped ions, and superconducting qubits
For more info, please see here.
OSA webinar and conference series
SPIE webinar and conference series
SPIE Press Previews in Lidar, Sensing, and MTF-based Characterization. 04/06/2021, 11:00 am
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Please join three leaders in the lidar, sensing, and MTF-based characterization fields for this free online event, moderated by Jeremy Bos (Michigan Tech), as they discuss their recent publications
Extreme Ultraviolet Light Sources Supporting Next-Generation Lithography 04/27/2021, 11:00 am
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This forum brings together researchers from academia, government, and industry to discuss emerging topics in the field of sensor systems, related technologies, and specialized application areas.
For more info please see here.