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Investigation of giant Kerr nonlinearity in quantum cascade lasers using mid-infrared femtosecond pulses  Hong Cai, Sheng Liu, Elaine Lalanne, and Anthony M. Johnson Citation: Applied Physics...

Dr. L. Michael Hayden, UMBC Professor of Physics and Department Chair, was honored as a 2015 Fellow Member of The Optical Society (OSA), the leading professional society for researchers, industry...

"Noninvasive high resolving power entangled photon quantum microscope" Sanjit Karmakar, Ronald E. Meyers, and Yanhua Shih Journal of Biomedical Optics 20(1), 016008 (January 2015) Abstract:...

"Directly accessible entangling gates for capacitively coupled singlet-triplet qubits" F. A. Calderon-Vargas and J. P. Kestner Phys. Rev. B 91, 035301 – Published 6 January 2015 Abstract:...

Dr. Barry Baker, Dr. Hong Cai, Dr. Gergely Dolgos, and Dr. Liwang Ye all received their PhD's at the December 2014 graduation ceremony.

Dr. Markos Georganopoulos, an Associate Professor in the Physics Department, has been awarded (PI) a $400K, three-year NASA grant to study the nature of large scale relativistic jets in quasars...

Dr. Anthony Johnson has been invited to take part in the official launch of the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL2015), which will be held at UNESCO Headquarters on 19...

Congratulations to the 10 Physics Department graduate students who advanced into PhD Candidacy during the past year. These students were honored at the Graduate School's annual Doctoral Candidates...

Prof. James D. Franson of the UMBC Physics Department gave a lecture entitled "Entanglement: Einstein's spooky action at a distance" to the Philosophical Society of Washington (PSW) on October 24,...

The UMBC Atmospheric Spectroscopy Laboratory, led by Dr. Larrabee Strow, has been collaborating with NASA/California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) AIRS Project for many...