PHOTONICS RESEARCH

Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications -
The Integration of Research and Applications for the Region

At UNC Charlotte, we are growing a new Center built on existing expertise and facilities in Optoelectronics technology. Our photonics research emphasis is broad but with a strong emphasis on smart integrated optical devices:

• Optoelectronic devices and sub-assemblies
• Devices for telecommunications, sensors, and characterization
• Active and passive photonic devices
• Integrated optics and packaging
• Optical materials (semiconductors, polymer-organic and crystalline)
• Optical metrology
• Optical imaging
• Optical communication networks

These areas are critical to the acceleration of future enabling optoelectronics technologies, for example in manufacturing components for local optical networking. Our integrated research approach, across both disciplines and industries, is grounded in materials, processing, fabrication, measurement and characterization.                         more...

Center for Precision Metrology

UNC Charlotte's Center for Precision Metrology is a world leader in the measurement of the physical dimension. Within the optoelectronics field, metrology is essential to characterization and alignment of structures fabricated at the micron and sub-micron level.

As a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, our metrology research benefits from the involvement the expertise of 15 corporate partners . With funding from industrial and federal sources, the center supports more than 35 graduate students at the master's and Ph.D. levels.

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Related Information

Optics Center Research Overview

Research Facilities

Optics Faculty
Recent Publications
and Grants:
2005 - 2006
2003 - 2005

Charlotte Research Institute