Laboratory for Nonlinear
Optical Studies of Macromolecular Photonic Materials
Physics Department
The University of
Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Group Members
L. Michael Hayden,
Director (410-455-3199, hayden@umbc.edu)
Dr. Xuemei Zheng,
Research Associate (410-455-1938, xzheng@umbc.edu)
Alex Sinyukov, Graduate
research assistant
Megan Leahy, Graduate
research assistant
Colin McLaughlin,
Graduate research assistant
Paul Cunningham,
Graduate research assistant
Joey French, Graduate
research assistant
Andrea Abler,
Undergraduate research assistant
Ryan Dorrill,
Undergraduate research assistant
Lab Tour
Typical student work
spaces in the labs:
This is the THz lab:
150 fs
setup (Coherent MIRA/REGA amplified Ti:Sapphire system; 250 kHz, 3 mJ/pulse)
<
30 fs setup (Spectra-Physics/Kapteyn-Murnane amplified system; 1 kHz, 500 mJ/pulse)
This is the holography
lab:
Holographically
corrected telescope experiment
This is the materials
characterization table:
Second
harmonic generation (SHG) and electro-optic (EO) experiments
People
Selected Publications
and Presentations
THz:
Resonance
enhanced THz generation from EO polymers (Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005)
THz
generation and detection using multilayered EO polymer films (Optics Letters
2002)
New materials for
optical rectification and EO sampling (J. Polym. Sci. B: Phys. Ed. 2003)
Efficient
EO polymers for THz applications (to appear in J. Phys. Chem. 2004)
EO
polymers for wide-band THz applications (OSA 2002)
Molecular modeling:
Atomistic
modeling of electric field poling of NLO polymers (J. Chem. Phys. 1999)
Nonlinear optics:
Maker fringes for
absorbing and birefringent media (JOSA B 1995)
Holography in polymers:
Dual
use chromophores for dynamic and permanent holography (Appl. Opt. 2001)