Lasers that are narrow-linewidth, widely tunable, and portable in the visible wavelength spectrum have been a long-standing challenge in the field of photonics. A news article on steps towards this in a recently published article in Nature Photonics can be found here: Link to article.
We’ve recently received funding for two collaborative grant awards through the Scialog: Advancing Bioimaging Program for using nanophotonics to develop miniaturized microscopes for deep tissue microscopy (with Sixian You at MIT) and super-resolution microscopy (with Gokul Upadhyayula at UC Berkeley). We thank both Research Corporation for Science Advancement and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for the funding and support. Check out the details here and here!
Our work on compact beam steering and switching has recently been featured in the news. Our approaches for low power optical phased arrays and visible wavelength photonic systems are opening up new application areas in photonics including Lidar, AR/VR, and neuroscience. Take a look here, here, and here!