Welcome to Dr. Thomas Butler!

Thomas Butler joints the Photonics Research Laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher, to help develop our ultrafast near-field microscopy system. Thomas received his PhD in Applied Physics from Cork Institute of…

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Laboratory installs new Coherent OPO

The laboratory received and installed the new Coherent Optical Parametric Oscillator system, to accompany the Coherent Chameleon laser. The new OPO uses a fan-poled PPLN crystal to produce tunable signal…

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Kate Coppess wins NSF Graduate Fellowship

Congratulations to Kate Coppess (who was an undergraduate researcher in our group through the TREND REU program), who was chosen this year to receive an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Kate…

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Welcome to Nathan Super

Nathan Super joins the lab this summer through the NSF-sponsored TREND program.  Nathan is currently pursuing his bachelor's degree in Physics at William and Mary College.

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Shaking hands with Prof. Eric Mazur, OSA President, at CLEO 2017

Prof. Murphy elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Prof. Thomas E. Murphy was named as one of 96 individuals among the newest class of 2017 OSA Fellows, for "sustained contributions to nonlinear, electro-optic, and ultrafast processes in nanoscale…

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