Making Every Photon Count

Lab News and Milestones

Apr 2023: A very warm welcome to 3 new students (Kefu Mu, Aaron Fernandes, Vishwajeet Ekal) to the research group.

Apr 2023: Excited to receive a vibration isolation platform from Minus K Technology as one of the Educational Giveaway Winners!

Nov 2023: Doors are open to our lab space in MESH. Part of our optical equipment has arrived at IU!

2024 Postdoc and RA Hiring | WE ARE HIRING
Calling all IU women undergrads to consider applying to Emerging Scholars Research Experience for Undergraduate Women! Deadline: Aug 1

Vendors {disclaimer: non-incentivized list}
- - Optics: Thorlabs, Newport, Edmund Optics, Eksmaoptics, OptoSigma
  - Gratings: Wasatch, Ibsen, Richardson, Lightsmyth
  - Fiber: Ozoptics
  - Nonlinear crystals: Covesion
  - Mechanical: McMasterCarr
  - Electrical: Digikey
Online calculators
Outside reading / literature
- - Feynman Lectures on Physics
  - E&M lectures & discussions by Prof Mansuripur; by Prof Kaplunovsky; UIUC Physics Van
  - Free online tutorial on optics basics by Ansys, webinars on polarization.
  - Basics on microscopy [1] [2]
  - FDTD online book by Dr. Schneider
  - Vitual tour of facility scale optical labs ELI LIGO
Beyond science readings
- - Tips on how to prepare and write journal papers [1]
  - Email etiquette [1][2]
  - Terrence Tao's words of wisdom