Research in Optics Program

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:52:05 -0500

The College of Optical Sciences is looking for undergraduate students who are interested in a 10-week summer program in optical sciences research. These innovative projects touch on "virtually every field of science and industry"! Students pick will be in one of several research programs:

Midspacial Frequency Optical Surface Error Control

Creating, Manipulating and Imaging Complex Quantum States in a Single Atom

XUV Frequency Combs for Precision Spectroscopy

Fabrication and Testing of Freeform Optics

Ultrafast Mode-Locked Semiconductor Disk Lasers

3-D Vector Maxwell Simulations on the Nanoscale

Metal Oxide Thin Film for UV Protection of Polymer Optical Filler

Development of V-Lab Module: Virtual 3-D Optical Ray Aberration Visualizer

Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging of Fallopian Tube

Freeform Optics for Lighting

Students will receive a stipend of $5,000.

The deadline is February 26 and acceptance letters will be sent in early March. If interested, see the website for more details.