Selim Shahriar
Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Dr. Selim Shahriar is the director of the Solid State and Photonics division within EECS. He leads the Laboratory of Atomic and Photonic Technologies. His research activities include the following areas: superluminal ring laser for ultra-high sensitiviity accelerometry and rotation sensing, with applications to inertial navigation, table-top gravitational wave detection, and measurement of Lense-Thirring rotation as a test of General Relativity; white light cavities for enhancing the sensitivity of Michelson-interferometry based gravitational wave detectors; switchable white light cavities for high-speed data buffering ; quantum computers using trapped atomic ensembles; ultra-low light level nonlinear optics using nanofibers and atoms for switching and quantum logic; holographic image processing for ultrafast data base search; polarimetric laser radar for surveillance and tracking; polarimetric optical coherence tomography for biological imaging and opthalmology; BEC based atomic interferometry for rotation sensing and nano-scale lithography; Rb atomic clock using pulsed coherent populatio trapping.
Faculty Collaboration
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