Our Ultrafast Nanostructure Optics Labs are located in the Boston University Photonics Center.<\/p>\n
PHO 809<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>Ultrafast Nanostructure Optics<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(UNO) Laboratory: The research is mainly focused on: a) ultrafast emission spectroscopy; b) optical gain relaxation dynamics; c) nonlinear optical characterization of semiconductor nanostructures, novel bio-compatible materials, photonic and plasmonic nano-devices. Implemented Optical techniques include: picosecond fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy, time-resolved variable stripe length and pump-probe gain techniques, time-resolved femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, emission quantum efficiency and photon statistics, Z-scan nonlinear characterization, second harmonic generation (SHG).<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Spectra Physics Auto Inspire 100 – Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO)<\/strong><\/p>\n Custom-made dark-field\/bright-field microscope for the study of photonic\/plasmonic structures<\/strong><\/p>\n The system enables dark-field scattering in transmission and reflection configurations, , photoluminescence and time-resolved photoluminescence, photonic band-dispersion measurements.<\/p>\n PHO 808 Luminescence Laboratory:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>The research is mainly focused on the steady-state optical spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures, bio-compatible materials and plasmonic devices. Implemented Optical techniques include: Broad-band Photoluminescence Excitation Spectroscopy (PLE), Emission lifetime measurements under steady state (CW) excitation, CW photoluminescence (PL), CW Quantum efficiency.<\/p>\n Olympus IX7 Microscope \/ Andor Shamrock (750) Spectrometer<\/strong><\/p>\n Continuum M150 Probe Station<\/strong><\/p>\n Computational electromagnetics resources:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Electrodynamics modeling of complex photonic devices, such as photonic crystal structures and nano-plasmonics components. The main computational techniques available in our group are:\u00a0 Generalized Mie theory (GMT), T-matrix, Mie scattering codes, Discrete Dipoles and Coupled Dipoles codes, Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD), Finite Elements (FEM),\u00a0<\/span>ad hoc<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>computational models for the solution of specialized research problems.<\/p>\n Picture of the\u00a0<\/span>DURIP cluster\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>\u2013 fully operational 192 AMD cores, 512GB memory, 10 Tb storage, Fast G-bit Interconnect<\/p>\n (From left to right) Prof. Bellotti and Prof. Dal Negro<\/p>\n Emission, PLE spectroscopy and Ultrafast pump-probe set up configuration:<\/p>\n Configuration of Picosecond florescence and Pump and Probe set up for optical gain measurements.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lab Photos<\/strong><\/p>\n \n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0Ultrafast\u00a0Nanostructure\u00a0Optics\u00a0(UNO)\u00a0Laboratory “To think without observing is as dangerous as observing without thinking” (S.R.y Cajal) Our Ultrafast Nanostructure Optics Labs are located in the Boston University Photonics Center. PHO 809\u00a0Ultrafast Nanostructure Optics\u00a0(UNO) Laboratory: The research is mainly focused on: a) ultrafast emission spectroscopy; b) optical gain relaxation dynamics; c) nonlinear optical characterization of semiconductor nanostructures, novel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16034,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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