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Nonlinear Dynamics REU
✴ Optoelectronic Dynamical Systems and Quantum Networks
Project type: Computation and Experiments
Optoelectronic technologies, including integrated photonic systems, quantum networking, and single-photon measurements, are essential for advancing modern science and technology, offering solutions for faster communication, secure information transfer, and enhanced sensing capabilities.
These technologies are being pushed to new regimes, where the optical intensity is so high that nonlinear optical effects become significant and can be exploited (or at the other extreme, where systems must respond at the single-photon level). The convergence of microwave technology, fiber optic communication, and quantum measurement is creating new opportunities for investigation and innovation in the field.
Through this summer research project, students will explore fundamental processes and phenomena in optoelectronic systems, such as optimizing photonic chip performance, investigating optoelectronic oscillators, developing robust quantum networks, and enhancing single-photon detection methods. Projects will have the potential to span numerical simulation, theoretical analysis, prototype experimental system development, and hands-on optical measurements.
The research questions are accessible to students from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds and introduces students to Fiber optic instrumentation. programmable electronics, instrument automation, and numerical and electromagnetic simulation. This research provides a rare opportunity to apply these newly acquired skills to answer scientific questions in a new and rapidly developing field.
Profs. Chembo and Murphy have mentored many undergraduates through the TREND program, resulting in several papers. Two recent Physics Ph.D students from their labs are former TREND alumni.
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