Mark. G. Kuzyk

Professor of Physics

(Principal Investigator)

Our group's research spans fundamental theories of the nonlinear-optical and mechanical response of molecules, understanding novel optical phenomena, and demonstrating devices in optical fibers.

Nonlinear Optics Website

kuz(at)wsu.edu

David Watkins

Professor of Mathematics

Scientific Computing, numerical linear algebra, structured eigenvalue problems

Personal Webpage

watkins(at)math.wsu.edu

Shiva K. Ramini

The main area of my research is studying the mechanisms of reversible photodegradation in certain dyes. The idea is, it may be possible to condition existing materials using light, radiation, and thermal cycling to make them better. Our work is based on a serendipitous discovery that certain materials self-heal after photodegradation, and that they become more robust in the process.Currently I am trying to understand the fundamental principles underlying self healing properties of dye called Disperse Orange 11 doped in PMMA polymer.

rshiva123(at)gmail.com

Nathan Dawson

Sheng-Ting Hung

Xianjun Ye

I am building optical tweezers to manipulate metal nanoparticles, in the hope of utilizing it to design and assemble materials with high nonlinear optical response from bottom-up, and also to verify previous theoretical calculation results.

xianjun_ye(at)wsu.edu

Shoresh Shafei

I am using quantum approximation methods to find the elasticity of DNA’s, atoms and molecules. For this purpose, we use the similarity between polarizabilities and different orders of elasticity.

shafei(at)wsu.edu

Wei Lu

Research: limits of nonlinear polarizabilities

weilu76(at)hotmail.com

Benjamin Anderson

The research I am doing currently is quantifying the self healing of a doped polymer over time by looking at burn marks due to exposure to intense laser radiation.  I utilize photo analysis software to measure the width and "depth" of the burns as a function of time to look at how the polymer heals.

sleepingawake86(at)gmail.com

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Undergraduate Student

Rosanne Garcia

I am a Junior at Washington State University, majoring in Physics.  My main focus working with Dr. Kuzyk focuses on self-healing compounds.  Certain materials have been found to have the ability to heal themselves over time, seemingly regaining all their initial properties.  Image analysis provides a new set of information regarding these identically regenerated properties.  By studying before-and-after conditions of a “destroyed” sample, fundamental information about these compounds is expected to be determined.

rmgarcia(at)wsu.edu