Research Activities

• Photonic engineering (design, measurement, implementation and characterization)

  • Optical chaotic oscillators

  • Optoelectronic chaotic oscillators

  • Photonic integrated chaotic oscillators

  • Micro-ring resonators

  • Quantum Dot laser devices

  • Quantum Cascade laser devices

• Optical sensing engineering

  • Temperature and strain monitoring

  • Fiber-based accelerometers

  • Fiber-based water level sensors

  • Interrogation in optical sensor networks

  • Ice detection in aircraft wings

  • Super-cooled large droplets monitoring

  • Biosensing

• Security

  • Optical methods for artificial sniffing

  • Optical methods for fingerprint identification

• Communications security

  • Optical chaos encryption in optical communications

  • Optical chaos encryption in wireless communications

  • Optical chaos encryption in free-space communications

  • Chaos-based random number generators

  • ASE-noise random number generators

• Data analysis

  • Data acquisition systems

  • Data fusion and neural networks