Welcome to Photonics Laboratory @ UCLA
The Photonics Laboratory at UCLA performs multi-disciplinary research and development in the fields of silicon photonics, microwave photonics, and biophotonics for biomedical and defense applications. The Lab has two complementary missions. The first is to solve critical problems faced by defense, commercial industries, and medicine through innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in devices or systems. The second and equally important mission is to produce creative and highly skilled scientists and engineers who will be the driving force for technological innovation in the 21st century. The Lab enjoys the strong support of the Department of Defense, National Institue of Health, National Science Foundation, W. M. Keck Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and private companies
News & Announcements
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Kam Yan Hon's paper titled "The Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Coefficients of Si, Ge, and Si(1-x)Ge(x) in the midwave and longwave infrared" has been selected to be on the cover of Journal of Applied Physics. Congratulations! Using a combination of semiconductor theory and experimental results from the scientific literature, we have compiled and plotted the key third-order nonlinear optical coefficients of bulk crystalline Si and Ge as a function of wavelength (1.5-6.7 um for Si and 2.0-14.7 um for Ge). |
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Ali Fard wins SPIE Scholarship. This award recognizes his academic and research excellence in the field of optics and photonics. Congratulations! |
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Keisuke Goda wins Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface! The purpose of this award is to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the first three years of faculty service. Congratulations! |
All the undergraduate students in Photonics Laboratory got admitted to and will attend top U.S. graduate schools in the coming fall. Congratulations!
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Recent Press Coverage

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Click here for a complete list of press coverages.
Open Positions
Exciting projects are available for postdocs, graduate, and undergraduate students. Postdocs and students with fellowships will be given priority. Interested candidates should read this page and send a brief e-mail together with a CV to chaowang@ee.ucla.edu.






