Paras N. Prasad
Distinguished Professor Departments of Chemistry and PhysicsPhotonics; Ultrafast Optical Processes, Nonlinear Optics
- B.S., Bihar University (1964)
- M.S., Bihar University (1966)
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (1971)
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1997-98)
- Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1977-81)
- Fellow of Optical Society of America
- Fellow of American Physical Society.
- G. S. He, L. Yuan, Y. Cui, M. Li, and P. N. Prasad. Studies of two-photon pumped frequency-upconverted lasing properties of a new dye material. J. Appl. Phys. 81:2529 (1997).
- P. N. Prasad. Excitation dynamics in organic molecules, solids, fullerenes and polymers. In Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Collective Excitation in Solids, ed. R. DiBartolo, Plenum Press, New York, p. 203 (1997).
- G. Ruland, R. Gvishi, and P. N. Prasad. Multiphasic nanostructured composites: Multi-dye tunable solid-state laser. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 118:2985 (1996).
- J. D. Bhawalkar, G. S. He, and P. N. Prasad. Nonlinear multiphoton processes in organic and polymeric materials. Rep. Progress of Physics 59:1041 (1996).
- C. F. Zhao, C. K. Park, P. N. Prasad, Y. Zhang, S. Ghosal, and R. Burzynski. Photorefractive polymer with side-chain second-order nonlinear optical and charge transporting groups. Chem. Mater. 7:1237 (1995).
Research InterestsPhotonics is emerging as a multidisciplinary new frontier of science and technology and is capturing the imagination of scientists and engineers worldwide because of its potential applications to many areas of present and future information and image processing technologies. Photonics is the analog of electronics in that it describes the technology in which photons instead of electrons are used to acquire, store, transmit, and process information. Nonlinear optics provides key operational functions needed for the implementation of photonics technology. Our Photonics Research Laboratory is engaged in multidisciplinary research in the field of photonics and nonlinear optics. It has excellent research facilities for a comprehensive multidisciplinary research program and features state-of-the-art instrumentation.
- Preparation, processing and theoretical modeling of photonic materials
- Nonlinear optical effects in organic polymers
- Laser induced ultrafast processes in the condensed phase
- Nanostructured and multifunctional materials
- Microstructure and dynamics within sol-gel processed organic/inorganic hybrid materials
- Multiphoton processes and their applications to photodynamic cancer therapy
- Fluorescence imaging and 3D optical data storage