There is a vast array of optics-related activity at RIT. On this page you will find highlights and links to various educational programs and research activities within the domain of optics.

Photons after Dark

Monthly informal seminar series with a vibrant community of students and faculty with interest and/or expertise in optics

Reduced Power Consumption Optical Signal Processing

Prashant Baveja, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester

February 15, Wednesday 6:00-7:00pm
Chester F. Carlson
Center for Imaging Science
CAR 76-1125

View Abstract and Bio here

Optics News

Prof. Grover Swartzlander, a joint professor in the Center for Imaging Science and the Physics Department, has recently published (Dec and Jan) two papers that describe ways of measuring unresolvable objects:

The first paper, published in the prestigious journal Optics Letters, describes a means of using a device he developed, called an optical vortex coronagraph, to extract spatial information from an unresolvable source.  In this case, a normal telescope would be unable to discern whether an object was composed of a single, or multiple stars.

However the coronagraph would be able answer the question by making two simple power measurements. This paper is particularly important because it overcomes limitations established by the Abbe theory of imaging 140 years ago.   Read more>>>

The second paper, published in collaboration with a group from Italy (University of Padua) and Sweden (Swedish Inst. of Space Physics), demonstrates how an optical vortex coronagraph may be used to  determine the distance between two unresolved light sources.

The paper appears in the rapid open access publication, Optics Express. Read more>>>

Quantum Optics

Quantum Optics Gives RIT’s Physics Program a Big Edge

Course takes students on strange ride through quantum physics  Read more >>>