Professor

Nasser Peyghambarian is a Professor of the College of Optical Sciences and also the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Arizona. He is the Chair of Photonics and Lasers at the University of Arizona as well as Director of the Photonics Initiative. He is also the Director of the newly created National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Integrated Access Networks (CIAN). He is Chairman of the Board and Founder of NP Photonics, Inc. and TIPD, LLC. He is the recipient of the U of A 2007 Technology Innovation Award, International Francqui Chair, Belgium 1998-1999, TRW Young Faculty Award, and 3M Company's Young Faculty Award. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Optical Society of America (OSA), the Society for optical engineers (SPIE) and the American Physical Society (APS). His research interests include optical networks, silicon photonics, optical subsystems and components, nanophotonics, waveguide and fiber optics, fiber lasers and amplifiers, glass-organic hybrid materials and devices, plastic optoelectronics, nonlinear photonics, semiconductor optics, and 3D displays.

Patents

8,203,780	Systems and methods for improving the performance of a photorefractive device
8,102,885	All-fiber mode selection technique for multicore fiber laser devices
8,077,747	Phosphate glass based optical device and method
7,973,989	System and method using a voltage kick-off to record a hologram on a photorefractive polymer for 3-D holographic display and other applications
7,912,327	Hybrid strip-loaded electro-optic polymer/sol-gel modulator
7,693,355	Hybrid electro-optic polymer/sol-gel modulator
7,391,938	Technique to enhance the electro-optic coefficient of polymers by using a sol-gel cladding layer to increase poling efficiency
7,015,052	Method for fabricating organic light-emitting diode and organic light-emitting display using screen-printing
6,611,372	Erbium and ytterbium co-doped phosphate glass optical fiber amplifiers using short active fiber length
6,525,466	Cathode including a mixture of a metal and an insulator for organic devices and method of making the same
6,402,994	Thermally stable molecules with large dipole moments and polarizabilities and applications thereof
6,399,221	Organic light-emitting diodes and methods for assembly and emission control
6,090,332	Process of changing the refractive index of a composite containing a polymer and a compound having large dipole moment and polarizability and applications thereof
5,744,267	Azo-dye-doped photorefractive polymer composites for holographic testing and image processing