PHOTONICS RESEARCH GROUP
Program Coordinator: Myles Allen H. Zosa, Ph.D.
The Photonics Research Laboratory (PRL) is the leading expert in the field of generation, transmission, modulation, amplification and frequency conversion, detection and the use of light in the Philippines. As the former Laser Physics Laboratory, the PRL still involves itself in the development of high-impact laser physics research. Many of our research are also in the frontier of studying the very nature of light with the aim of using it in various applications such as in metrology. PRL is equipped with cutting edge lasers and optical setups used in studying light-matter interaction and its applications to various fields such as quantitative phase imaging, structured light engineering and thin film fabrication and characterization.
Research Areas: astrophotonics, Goos-Hänchen and Imbert-Fedorov shifts, catastrophe optics, optical cloaking, digital holography, fringe processing, imaging techniques such as single pixel imaging and fluorescence imaging, intense magnetic field generation, ion acceleration, laser ablation and plasma dynamics, laser-driven plasma compression and laser-produced plasma, optical angular momentum, optical information storage, spectroscopy, phase retrieval, profilometry, pulsed laser deposition, relativistic laser-plasma interactions, speckle interferometry, shearography, structured light generation and detection, tailored polarization and polarization measurements, use and control of partially coherent light sources.
Senior Members:
Percival F. Almoro – Professor
(Optics and Coherent Metrology)
Wilson O. Garcia – Professor
(Photonics)
Nathaniel P. Hermosa II – Professor
(Optics and Photonics)
Myles Allen H. Zosa – Assistant Professor
(Laser Plasma Interaction)
Niña Angelica Z. Simon – Senior Lecturer
Visit for more information: http://photonics.nip.upd.edu.ph/