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Robert A. Norwood is a Professor in the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, where he performs research on photonic materials and devices, specifically high speed electro-optic modulators and switches, RF photonics, silicon photonics, plasmonics, infrared optical polymer materials and devices, magneto-optic materials and devices, polymer-based integrated optics, 3-D display technology, solar energy, nonlinear optical fibers, biologically inspired optical microresonators and ultrafast optical switching among other areas. Prior to his current position, Dr. Norwood spent 15 years in R&D leadership positions in industry at both Fortune 100 corporations (AlliedSignal now Honeywell) and venture-capital backed startups (VP and CTO of Photon-X). He is a world expert in polymer integrated optics and optical materials, with more than 165 refereed publications, 7 book chapters, 35 issued US patents, and 70 invited talks. Dr. Norwood has served as a conference chair or co-chair for Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications (OSA/ACS) and Linear and Nonlinear Optics in Organic Materials (SPIE), and has served on the program committee for OFC (sub-committee chair); he has just started his second three year tenure on the CLEO (OSA) program committee. He is an associate editor of Optica and has previously served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters and Optical Materials Express. He is both an OSA Fellow and an SPIE Fellow, as well as a member of APS and IEEE. He holds the Ph. D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, and the B.S. in physics and mathematics from MIT.Show Less
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Courses
- AOLAdvanced Optics Laboratory
- FPIMFrom Photonics Innovation to the Marketplace
- NPNonlinear Photonics
- PPhotonics
Grants
- High Index Electro-active Polymer Development
Principal Investigator (PI)
2023
$20.0K
Active - Sulfenyl Chloride Electrophilic Addition to Olefinic Monomers: A New Step-Growth Polymerization Reaction to Prepare Optical Polymers
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$550.0K
Active - Novel Sulfur Based Polymers for Optical and Photonic Systems
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$70.0K
Active - DMREF: Computational Chemistry to Accelerate Development of Long Wave Infrared Polymers
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$1.9M
Active - U.S.-Ireland R&D Partnership: Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Medium: A Unified Framework for the Emulation of Classical and Quantum Physical Layer Networks
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$345.4K
Active - High Index Electroactive Polymer Development
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$270.2K
Active - Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Sulfur Based Optical Polymers
Co-Investigator (COI)
2021
$140.0K
Active - Integrated Photonics at SWIR Wavelengths
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$103.8K
Active - PFI-RP: Translational Research from Academia to Industry on Low Cost Plastic Materials for Infrared Thermal Imaging
Co-Investigator (COI)
2020
$676.0K
Active - Cylindrical Lens Design and Fabrication
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$210.0K
Active
News
- Harnessing the Sun to Purify Concentrated Waste Streams
2020
- UArizona Professors Elected to the National Academy of Inventors
2020
- UA Sets Record With 284 Inventions Disclosed in FY 2019
2019
- Using Computational Chemistry to Produce Cheaper Infrared Plastic Lenses
2019
- UA Optics Expertise Fuels $3.7M in US Funding
2017
- 2 Major Contracts for UA Optical Sciences
2016
- UA Part of National Team to Receive $110M to Launch Photonics Institute
2015
- UA Researchers are Creating Better Thermal-Imaging Lens From Waste Sulfur
2014
- Two UA Optical Sciences Students Picked for Astronaut Scholarship
2014
- Organic Photovoltaics: Solar Cells of the Future?
2011
- Summer Research Program Trains Future Graduate Students
2009
- What the World Would Be like Without Photonics
2009
- UA Gets $18.5M NSF Grant to Create Engineering Research Center
2008
- UA Optical Sciences Announces Joint Research Venture with Canon U.S.A.
2008
Publications (166)
Recent
- SmartPrint single-mode flexible polymer optical interconnect for high density integrated photonics
2022
- Single-frequency fiber laser at 880nm
2022
- High Verdet constant materials for magneto-optical Faraday rotation: A review
2022
- Sulfenyl chlorides: An alternative monomer feedstock from elemental sulfur for polymer synthesis
2022
- Rapid photolithographic fabrication of high density optical interconnects using refractive index contrast polymers
2022
- 10-W picosecond Yb3+-doped all-fiber laser source at 976nm
2022
- High refractive index chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers for integrated photonics
2022
- Optical tuning of silicon nitride ring resonators using an external short visible wavelength laser source
2021
- Polymer-coated magnetic nanoparticles as ultra-high Verdet constant materials: Correlation of nanoparticle size with magnetic and magneto-optical properties
2021
- Widely wavelength tunable Dy3+/Er3+ ZBLAN fiber lasers
2021
- Relaxed tolerance low-loss adiabatic silicon nitride to polymer waveguide coupler for dense interconnects
2021
- Diode-pumped 1.15W linearly polarized single-frequency Yb3+ -doped phosphate fiber laser
2021
- Design and characterization of a translucent solar module (TSM) for greenhouse structures
2021
- Single-freequency Nd3+-doped phophate fiber laser at 915nm
2021
- Beyond 3 micron Dy3+/Er3+ co-doped ZBLAN fiber lasers pumped by 976nm laser diode
2021
- 100th Anniversary of Macromolecular Science Viewpoint: High refractive index polymers with elemental sulfur for infrared thrmal imaging and optics
2020
- Cryogenic C-band wavelength division multiplexing system using an AIM Photonics process design kit
2020
- Refractive index contrast polymers: Photoresponsive systeems with spatial modulation of refractive index for photonics
2020
- High-efficiency Nd3+-doped phosphate fiber laser at 880nm
2020
- Thermal compensation of molded silicone optics
2020
- Polymer and magnetic nanoparticle composites with tunable magneto-optical activity: role of nanoparticle dispersion for high Verdeet constant materials
2020
- Magneto-optical properties of Dy3+ doped multicomponent glasses
2020
- SiO2 and TiO2 blends with tunable optical and electronic properties
2019
- Numerical investigationo of GHz repetition rate fundamentally mode-locked all-fiber lasers
2019
- Investigation of ion-ion interaction effects on Yb3+-doped fiber amplifiers
2019
- Silicone optical elements for cost-effective freeform solar concentration
2019
- Low-cost magneto-optic sensor based on tapered fiber and distributed sensing concept
2019
- Infrared fingerprint engineering: A molecular design approach to long-wave infrared transparency with polymeric materials
2019
- Nonlinear optical properties of chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers (CHIPs) using the Z-scan technique
2018
- Optical and mechanical tolerances in hybrid concentrated thermal-PV solar trough
2018
- One-dimensional photonic crystals using ultrahigh refractive index chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers
2018
- Nonlinear optical components for all-optical probabilistic graphical model
2018
- Engineered nonlinear materials using gold nanoantenna array
2018
- Optical versus electronic implementation of probabilistic graphical infernce and experimental device demonstration using nonlinear photonics
2018
- Power scalable 10W 976nm single-frequency linearly polarized laser source
2018
- Efficient wafer-scale poling of electro-optic polymer thin films on soda-lime glass substrates: large second-order nonlinear coefficients and eceptional homogeneity of optical birefrinence
2017
- Nonlinear refractive index of sulfur copolymer materials
2017
- Octave-spanning dual-comb spectroscopy with a free-running bidiredtional mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser
2017
- Athermal silicon optical add-drop multiplexers based on thermo-optic coefficient tuning of sol-gel material
2017
- Yb3+ doped double-clad phosphate fiber for 976nm single-frequency laser amplifiers
2017
- Rapid visualization of grain boundaries in monolayer MoS2 by multiphoton microscopy
2017
- Review of recent progress on single-frequency fiber lasers
2017
- Ultrastrong nonlinear optical properties and trigonal warping in MoS2 layers
2017
- Pulsed fluoride fiber lasers at 3 microns
2017
- Improving Faraday rotation performance with block copolymer and FePt nanoparticle magneto-optic composites
2017
- Chalcogenide hybrid inorganic/organic polymers: Ultrahigh refractive index polymers for infrared imaging
2017
- Designing spectrum-splitting dichroic filters to optimized current-matched photovoltaics
2016
- Optical Implementation of Probabilistic Graphical Models
2016
- Dual-wavelength fiber laser operating above 2 microns based on cascaded single-mode-multimode-single-mode fiber structures
2016
- Label-free multi-photon imaging of dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus
2016
- Second and third harmoni generation in few-layer gallium telluride characterized by multiphoton microscopy
2016
- High-repetition rate terahertz generation in QPM GaAs with a compact, efficient 2 micron KTP OPO
2016
- Directed assembly of quantum dots using brush block copolymers for well-ordered nonlinear optical nanocomposites
2016
- Diffraction response of photorefractive polymers over nine orders of magnitude in pulse duration
2016
- Graphene mode-locked fiber laser at 2.8 microns
2016
- Plasmonically induced potential in metal-semiconductor composites
2016
- Real-time dual-comb spectroscopy with a free-running bidirectionally mode-locked fiber laser
2016
- Mode-locked Ho3+-doped ZBLAN fiber laser at 1.2 micron
2016
- High refractive index copolymers with imporved thermomechanical propeties via the inverse vulcanization of sulfur and 1,3,5-triisopropenylbenzene
2016
- Widely-tunable high-repetition-rate terahertz generation in GaSe with a compact dual-wavelength KTP OPO around 2 micron
2016
- High-power, high-brightness terahertz source based on nonlinear optical crystal fiber
2016
- All-fiber bidirectional optical parametric oscillaator for precision sensing
2015
- Dynamic covalent polymers via inverse vulcanization of elementl sulfur for healable infrared optical materials
2015
- Passive Q-switching of an all-fiber laser induced by the Kerr effect of multimode interference
2015
- Towards ten-watt 3-5 micron Raman lasers using tellurite fiber
2015
- High-power high-brightness terahertz source based on nonlinear optical crystal fiber
2015
- Analysis of quasi-periodic pore-network structure of centric marine diatoms
2015
- Nanoimprinted hybrid metal-semiconductor plasmonic multilayers with controlled surface nano architecture for applications in NIR detectors
2015
- Racetrack resonator as a loss measurement platform for photonic components
2015
- High-power synchronously pumped femtosecond Raman fiber laser
2015
- Sol-gel material-enabled electro-optic polymer modulators
2015
- Real-time imaging of chromophore alignment in photorefractive polymer devices through multiphoton microscopy
2015
- Surface-enhanced two-photon excitation fluorescence of various fluorophores evaluated using a multiphioton microscope
2015
- Investigation of second- and third-harmonic generation in few layer gallium selenide by multiphoton microscopy
2015
- Highly transparent light-harvesting window film
2015
- Graphene Q-switched Ho3+-doped ZBLAN fiber laser at 1190nm
2015
- Microwave properties of MAPTMS sol-gel films for high-speed electro-optic devices
2014
- Study of the C60/Ag interface of a large area nanoarchitectured Ag substrate using surface-enhaced Raman scattering
2014
- A novel approach for microsensing: Detecting and identifying eigenmodes of sensing objects
2014
- Graphene enabled 3 micron pulsed fiber lasers
2014
- Mulitphoton microscopy characterization of plasmonic enhanced nanodevices
2014
- Multiphoton microscopy as a detection tool for photobleaching in EO materials
2014
- Plasmon hybridization in ITO/Ag core shell nanoarrays
2014
- Enhanced magnetisim in highly ordered magnetite nanoparticle-filled nanohole arrays
2014
- Total internal reflection magneto-optical detection of dysprosium (III) ions adsorbed at liquid-liquid interface
2014
- Plasmon-enhanced ultrathin bulk heterojunction interplay between optical and thermal responses of AuNPs
2014
- New infrared transmitting material via inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur to prepare high refractive index polymer
2014
- Characterization of coplanar poled electro-optic polymer films for Si-photonc devices with multiphoton microscopy
2014
- An effective nanosensor for organic molecules based on water-soluble mercaptoproprionic acid-capped CdTe nanocrystals with potential application in high-throughput screening and high-resolution optical microscopy
2014
- Mid-IR supercontinuum generation in an integrated liquid-core optical fiber filled with CS2
2014
- Modeling of electric field enhancement in titania slot waveguides for electro-optic polymer modulators
2014
- Fiber lasers and their applications
2014
- Structure-based optical filtering by the silica microshell of the centric marine diatom Cosconodiscus wailessi
2014
- Observation of two-photon fluorescence for Rhodamine 6G in microbubble resonators
2014
- Third-order nonlinear optical characterization of organic chromopohres using liquid-core optical fibers
2014
- Study of the C60/Ag Interface of a Large Area Nanoarchitectured Ag Substrate using Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
2014
- THG as a probe for photodegradation analysis of EO polymers
2014
- Polymethines with macroscopic optical nonlinearities suitable for all-optical signal processing
2014
- Watt-level short-length Ho3+-doped ZBLAN fiber laser at 1.2 micron
2014
- Fast non-blocking N x N optical switch using diffractive MOEMs
2014
- Watt-level fluoride fiber lasers and amplifiers in the 1.2 micron region
2014
- Hybrid nanoarchitectured core shell plasmonic structures with tunable optical properties
2014
- Raman-induced frequency shift in carbon disulfide filled integrated liquid-core optical fiber
2014
- Silica/electro-optic polymer optical modulator with integrated antenna for microwave receiving
2014
- Faraday rotation of cobalt ferrite nanoparticel polymer composite films at cryogenic temperatures
2014
- Shape engineering to promote head-tail interactions of electro-optic chromophores
2013
- Effect of modular diffraction gratings on absorption in P3HT:PCBM layers
2013
- Label-free, single-object sensing with a microring resonator: FDTD simulation
2013
- Ultra-low crosstalk, CMOS compatible waveguide crossings for densely integrated photonic interconnection networks
2013
- Layer separation optimization in CMOS compatible multilayer optical networks
2013
- Interface Between C60 and Ag on Nanostructured Plasmonic Ag Gratings: A SERS Study
2013
- Organic photonics: Ready for prime time
2013
- Spectroscopic ellipsometry study of novel nanostructured transparent conducting oxide structures
2013
- Design considerations and performance of MEMS acoustoelectric ultrasound detectors
2013
- Nonlinear optical transmission of lead phthalocyanines in polymeric matrix
2013
- Biological and biologically inspired photonic materials and devices
2013
- Hybrid electro-optic polymer modulators for RF photonics
2013
- Electrically tunable optical delay line in a polymer Bragg grating
2012
- Focus issue introduction: Nonlinear optics
2011
- Simulation-based optimization of the acoustoelectric hydrophone for mapping an ultrasound beam
2010
- Fabrication and characterization of an indium tin oxide acoustoelectric hydrophone
2010
- Polarization properties of two-dimensional slot waveguides
2010
- Modification of symmetrically substituted phthalocyanines using click chemistry: Phthalocyanine nanostructures by nanoimprint lithography
2009
- An evaporative co-assembly method for highly-ordered inverse opal films
2009
- Linear electrooptic coefficient of InP nanowires
2008
- Electro-optic polymer modulators for telecommunications applications
2008
- Hybrid electro-optic polymer devices: Beating the drive voltage/insertion loss trade-off
2007
- Proceeding of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering: Introduction
2006
- Optical polymers: Critical requirements for optical access applications
2004
- Hybrid polymer devices for improved thermal control and performance
2001
- Sources of loss in single-mode polymer optical waveguides
2001
- Erratum: (Design, Manufacturiing, and Testing of Planar Optical Waveguide Devices (1 August 2001))
2001
- Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering: Introduction
2001
- Thermo-optically active polymeric photonic components
2000
- Rare earth-doped polymer optical waveguide amplifiers
2000
- Thermally tunable polymer Bragg grating OADM's
1999
- Fluorinated acrylates in making low-loss, low-birefringence, and single-mode optical waveguides with exceptional thermo-optic properties
1999
- Polymer Bragg gratings for wavelength division multiplexers
1999
- Thermooptic planar polymer Bragg grating OADM's with broad tuning range
1999
- Polymer-based waveguide devices for WDM applications
1999
- Polymer integrated optical devices for telecommunications applications
1998
- Integrated multichannel OADM's using polymer bragg grating MZI's
1998
- Fast, low insertion-loss optical switch using lithographically defined electromagnetic microactuators and polymeric passive alignment structures
1998
- High-performance optical polymers for low-cost high-port-count planar wavelength-division-multiplexing devices
1997
- Ultra-low-loss polymeric waveguides for optical interconnection
1997
- Advanced polymer systems for optoelectronic integrated circuit applications
1997
- Polymer optical interconnects: Meeting the requirements for datacom and telecom applications
1997
- Self-imaging chirped holographic optical waveguides
1997
- Polymer optical interconnection technology: toward WDM applications
1996
- Modeling of bottom antireflection layers: sensitivity to optical constants
1996
- Toward the practical application of polymeric interconnection technology
1996
- Linear and nonlinear optical properties of a new organic crystal, N-(4-aminobenzenesulfonyl)acetamide
1996
- Low-loss high-thermal-stability polymer interconnects for low-cost high-performance massively parallel processing
1996
- Photoimageable, low shrinkage organic-inorganic hybrid materials for practical multimode channel waveguides
1996
- Rapid and accurate measurements of photoresist refractive index dispersion using the prism coupling method
1996
- Four-layer optical waveguide device using isopropyl-4-acetylphenylurea (IAPU)
1995
- Silicon phthalocyanine/methyl methacrylate copolymer slab directional couplers for all-optical switching
1994
- Electro-optic tensor ratio determination of side-chain copolymers with electro-optic interferometry
1994
- Microstructural characterization of sol-gel coating on PET films
1994
- Polymers for nonlinear optics: Absorption, two-photon absorption and photodegradation
1993
- Conductivity and third-order nonlinear optical measurements of polymers with distyrylbenzene and diphenylbutadiene segments
1993
- Third-order nonlinear optical response in polymer thin films incorporating porphyrin derivatives
1992
- Third-order nonlinear optical characterization of side-chain copolymers (Invited Paper)
1991
- Synthesis and incorporation of ladder polymer subunits in copolyamides, pendant polymers, and composites for enhanced nonlinear optical response
1991
- Phase-matched second-harmonic generation in a polymer waveguide
1990
- Quasi-phase-matched frequency doubling over 5 mm in periodically poled polyme waveguide
1990