Mehmetcan Akbulut
Associate Research Professor of Optical Sciences
Office: GCRB 447
Mailing Address:
Wyant College of Optical Sciences
The University of Arizona
1630 E. University Blvd.
P.O. Box 210094
Tucson, AZ 85721-0094
Welcome to the Photonics & Systems Laboratory. Our research focuses on Photonics related Subsystems and Systems development and Applications. Some of the applications includes Directed Energy, Remote Sensing & LIDAR, Classical and Quantum Optical Telecommunications & Networking, Optical Computing, Ultrafast & RF Photonics, Biophotonics. Learn more about our research and available opportunities.
Our research focuses on multiple areas of Photonics related Subystems and Systems. Here are some of the highlights of our work:
- High Energy and High Peak/Average Power Fiber Lasers for Directed Energy and Beam Control
- Multi-kW class fiber lasers
- Coherent Transform-Limited Eye-safe Fiber Lasers
- Laser beam combining for power and energy scaling
- LIDAR/LADAR and (Active) Remote Sensing
- Advanced LADAR systems for security applications
- Coherent Doppler LIDAR for Wind Shear and Wake-Vortex sensing
- Distributed Sensing over Fiber (DAS, DTS, etc.)
- Quantum Optical Networks
- CENTER FOR QUANTUM NETWORKS (CQN) (http://www.cqn-erc.org)
- Quantum Communications and Internet
- Classical Optical Fiber/Free Space Communications and Networking
- CENTER FOR INTEGRATED ACCESS NETWORKS (CIAN) (https://cian-erc.uawebhost.arizona.edu)
- Silicon Photonics and Hybrid Integrated Circuits
- Ultrafast & RF Photonics
- RF tone generation using low-noise lasers
- Frequency Comb Sources and Metrology
- Optical Computing
- Optical Ising Machine
- Analog Optical Communications for Graphical Inference
- Biophotonics including Novel Photonic Sensors for Cancer Detection
- Hyperspectral Imaging with AI for skin cancer detection