Laboratory for Advanced Optical Fabrication, Instrumentation and Metrology (AOFIM)
Dr. Qiao, Associate Professor, leads the the laboratory for Advanced Optical Fabrication, Instrumentation and Metrology (AOFIM) at the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. Her research group conducts research in the areas of (1) Ultrafast Lasers for advanced optics fabrication including integrated photonics and freeform optics (2) Optical Metrology for phase imaging and wavefront sensing, which can be used for characterizing astronomical telescopes, laser beams or retina imaging (3) Coherent phasing of segmented large-scale gratings and adaptive optics for next-generation telescopes or laser systems.
The field of wavefront sensing and the use of femtosecond lasers for photonics / optics fabrication require significant investment in equipment. Through building collaborations with a number of industrial partners, Dr. Qiao has built up a state-of-the-art femtosecond laser facility and metrology lab hosting elite equipment infrastructure. Working with her graduate students, undergraduate students, and research associates, Dr. Qiao’s group is conducting the development of a novel wavefront sensing technique and numerical and experimental investigations of the mechanism and performance of ultrafast lasers based photonics / optics fabrication and packaging.