Lasers have been around for over six decades. Since their invention, they have found their way into many applications that have changed our lives. Optical communications is of course one of them, and there are many that may surprise you. There is also still plenty of room to take laser performance to new heights, leading to even more new applications.  In Episode 37, we continue our conversation with laser and optics expert Juliet Gopinath, Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. We move on to her project with electrically tunable lenses and their application to 3D brain imaging in mice. – Pat Chou, Cisco Optics Product Manager  

Juliet Gopinath is the Alfred T. and Betty E. Look Professor of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.   She received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at MIT. She was a member of technical staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 2005 to 2009.  Since then, she has led a research group at the University of Colorado Boulder.  Her current research interests include ultrafast lasers, nonlinear optics, mid-infrared materials, spectroscopy, orbital angular momentum and adaptive optical devices. She has published 78 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 97 conference presentations. She is the recipient of an R&D 100 Award (2012) and is an Optica Fellow.  She served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Photonics Society Journal (2011-2017), the Associate Director for Cubit (2019), and currently is an Associate Editor for Optica.  

Take Juliet’s course on Active Optical Devices for free! https://www.coursera.org/specializations/active-optical-devices  

Related links 
Cisco Optics-to-Device Compatibility Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/  
Cisco Optics-to-Optics Interoperability Matrix: https://tmgmatrix.cisco.com/iop  
Cisco Optics Product Information: https://copi.cisco.com/   

Additional resources 
Cisco Optics Podcast: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/ciscoopticspodcast  Cisco Optics blogs: https://blogs.cisco.com/tag/ciscoopticsblog  (subscribe at https://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=CiscoOpticsBlog ) 
Cisco Optics YouTube playlist: http://cs.co/9008BlQen  
Cisco Optics landing page: cisco.com/go/optics   
Timestamps 
2:58	Electrically tunable lens and prism 
3:50	Electrowetting 
4:54	Contact angle 
6:02	Density matched liquids 
8:00	3D brain imaging in mice  

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Cisco Optics Podcast Ep 37. Fascinating laser research projects you wish you thought of (3 of 9)

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