Biomedical Engineering
The Boston University Photonics Center is a collaborative research and education center that
supports physicists, engineers, chemists, and biomedical researchers to advance academic
research, educational programs, commercial incubation, and photonics technology development.
The Center supports applications from entangled photons for quantum information processing to
nanohole photonic bandgap systems for virus detection and identification. The Center supports
faculty and students with 4 floors of faculty and shared laboratories, plus central facilities for
processing, imaging, and fabrication. Biomedical engineers at the Photonics Center include
Bigio, Ehrlich, Han, Klapperich, Mertz, Ritt, and Roblyer and their research encompasses
biomedical optics; ultrafast DNA sequencing; development and applications of novel optical
microscopy; and active sensing by organisms.
Chemistry
The Boston University Photonics Center is a collaborative research and education center that
supports physicists, engineers, chemists, and biomedical researchers to advance academic
research, educational programs, commercial incubation, and photonics technology development.
The Center supports applications from entangled photons for quantum information processing to
nanohole photonic bandgap systems for virus detection and identification. The Center supports
faculty and students with 4 floors of faculty and shared laboratories, plus central facilities for
processing, imaging, and fabrication. Chemists at the Photonics Center include Chen, Jones,
Reinhard, and Ziegler and their research encompasses photochemistry; dye probes; design,
implementation of new tools for manipulation of biological & in organic materials; and
spontaneous resonance raman studies of photodissociative and biological chromophores.
Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Boston University Photonics Center is a collaborative research and education center that
supports physicists, engineers, chemists, and biomedical researchers to advance academic
research, educational programs, commercial incubation, and photonics technology development.
The Center supports applications from entangled photons for quantum information processing to
nanohole photonic bandgap systems for virus detection and identification. The Center supports
faculty and students with 4 floors of faculty and shared laboratories, plus central facilities for
processing, imaging, and fabrication. Electrical and computer engineers at the Photonics Center
include Bellotti, Bigio, Dal Negro, Hubbard, Joshi, Klamkin Morse, Moustakas, Paiella, Pavlidis,
Ramachandran, Ruane, Sander, Semeter, Sergienko, Swan, Teich, and Unlu and their research
encompasses nanophotonic devices for optical communications; computational electronic;
biomedical optics; optical amplification phenomena; auditory physiology; on-chip and off-chip
interconnect; photonic material processing; MEMS; terahetz photonics; micro & nano optical
fibers; resonant cavity biosensors; ultrafast quantum optics; interactions of biomaterials with
nanostructures; neural coding; and optical characterization.
Mechanical Engineering
The Center supports applications from entangled photons for quantum information processing to
nanohole photonic bandgap systems for virus detection and identification. The Center supports
faculty and students with 4 floors of faculty and shared laboratories, plus central facilities for
processing, imaging, and fabrication. Mechanical engineers at the Photonics Center include
Basu, Bifano, Bunch, Ekinci, Fawcett, Schmidt, Sharon, White, and Zhang and their research
encompasses microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); ultra-thin metal films; biodetection,
optics, nanscale lithography and imaging; electromechanical machines, and nano and
microsystems.
Medical School
The Boston University Photonics Center is a collaborative research and education center that
supports physicists, engineers, chemists, and biomedical researchers to advance academic
research, educational programs, commercial incubation, and photonics technology development.
The Center supports applications from entangled photons for quantum information processing to
nanohole photonic bandgap systems for virus detection and identification. The Center supports
faculty and students with 4 floors of faculty and shared laboratories, plus central facilities for
processing, imaging, and fabrication. Medical school professors include Connor, Gabel and
Goldstein, and their research encompasses protein synthesis in virus replication; vesicular
stomatitis virus; optical neurophysiology; and femtosecond laser surgery.
Metropolitan College
The Boston University Photonics Center is a collaborative research and education center that
supports physicists, engineers, chemists, and biomedical researchers to advance academic
research, educational programs, commercial incubation, and photonics technology development.
The Center supports applications from entangled photons for quantum information processing to
nanohole photonic bandgap systems for virus detection and identification. The Center supports
faculty and students with 4 floors of faculty and shared laboratories, plus central facilities for
processing, imaging, and fabrication. Barry Unger is a Metropolitan College professor at the
Photonics Center, and his research encompasses venture capital investment; product design
process; and MIT Tech. Enterprise Forum.
Physics
The Boston University Photonics Center is a collaborative research and education center that
supports physicists, engineers, chemists, and biomedical researchers to advance academic
research, educational programs, commercial incubation, and photonics technology development.
The Center supports applications from entangled photons for quantum information processing to
nanohole photonic bandgap systems for virus detection and identification. The Center supports
faculty and students with 4 floors of faculty and shared laboratories, plus central facilities for
processing, imaging, and fabrication. Physicists at the Photonics Center include Goldberg,
Rothschild and Erramilli, and their research encompasses solid immersion microscopy for
integrated circuits; fundamental physics of graphene; tip-enhanced near-field scanning optical
microscopy to explore aperiodic nanostructures for energy focusing and ultra-sensitive detection;
tunable metamaterials and THz imaging; infrared microscopy and ultrafast infrared
spectroscopy.