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which opened twentieth century is now fulfilled in the research into technologies ranging
from communications to medicine. Innovations in designing and fabricating materials at
atomic dimensions allow father and faster telecommunications as well as the precision
control of chemical reactions atom by atom. Scientists create and study new materials and
how they generate light; they study how light propagates through and interacts with these
materials. In a word, the electronics of the twentieth century has is being replaced by
photonics. Photonics crosses all disciplines to include physicists, electrical engineers,
chemists, and material scientists. At Oklahoma State University the PhD in
Photonics, drawing on the resources of the Departments of Physics, Electrical Engineering,
and Chemistry, offers advanced graduate training in a multidisciplinary doctoral program
which prepares the graduates to assume leadership roles in research and development in the
Photonics industry. This program is unique in not only including courses from the various
disciplines but also providing an innovative set of newly designed photonics lab courses
to introduce the student to a wide variety of techniques in nanoscience and photonics. A
Biophotonics Ph.D. option is also available, which includes graduate courses in the
biological sciences and veterinary medicine. The PhD program is focused upon a research
project carried out in collaboration with a faculty advisor from one of the three
Departments. The research interests of the faculty cover a broad spectrum, from
nanotechnology and the optical material sciences of glasses, through the investigation and
development of semiconducting lasers for opto-electronic applications, to terahertz
radiation phenomena for communic!
ations and information technology. The faculty are listed below, along with their research
interests, and we invite you to "click on" their home pages and see some of the
innovative photonics research being carried out at Oklahoma State. If you are interested
in developing your talents in science and engineering to become one of tomorrow's leaders
in photonics research we invite you to join us to follow Einstein's vision and "ride
the light wave" into the future.
FACULTY HOME PAGES EMPHASIZING RESEARCH
PROBLEMS AND STUDENT INVOLVEMENT
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