People

Faculty and Research Staff

Alexander (Alex) Albrecht

Assistant Research Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Email: 

alex2@unm.edu

Richard I. Epstein

Research Professor

CEO of Thermo-Dynamics Films (TDF), Albuquerque NM

Email: 

richard.epstein@gmail.com

Personal Website

 

Lab Website

 

Zhou Yang

Postdoc I

Department of Physics and Astronomy, OSE Program

Email: 

zyang01@unm.edu

Phone: 

(505) 277 1284

Graduate Students

Stefano Bigotta

Email: 

bigotta@df.unipi.it

Research Areas: 

Laser Cooling of Rare Earth Doped Solids, Spectroscopy

Year: 

2007

Mohammad Reza Ghasemkhani

Email: 

mrghasem@unm.edu

Phone: 

(505) 277 3301

Office: 

LAB177

Research Areas: 

Laser Cooling in Solids

Nathan Giannini

Email: 

ngiann01@unm.edu

Phone: 

(505) 277 3301

Office: 

LAB 177

Research Areas: 

Nonlinear Optics, Semiconductor Photonics

David Lidsky

Research Areas: 

VECSEL, Nanophotonics

Duncan McGraw

Email: 

mcgrawd@unm.edu

Junwei Meng (Tiger)

Email: 

jmeng@unm.edu

Phone: 

(505) 277 3301

Research Areas: 

Solid-State Laser Cooling

Name Removed by Request

Research Areas: 

Nonlinear Optics, Laser Cooling in Semiconductors, Semiconductor Spectroscopy

Year: 

2006

Saeid Rostami

Email: 

saeid.rostami@gmail.com

Phone: 

(505) 277 3301

Office: 

LAB 177

Research Areas: 

Nonlinear Optics, Laser Cooling

Mahendra Man Shakya

Email: 

mahendra@unm.edu

Phone: 

505-277-8497

Research Areas: 

Ultrafast High Intensity Interactions, High Harmonic Generation

Year: 

2010

Ed Soto

Email: 

soto.ed@gmail.com

Year: 

2007

Andreas Stintz

Email: 

andreas@chtm.unm.edu

Phone: 

505-272-7548

Research Areas: 

MBE Growth, Nanofabrication

Year: 

2008

Nima Vadie

Email: 

nimavadiee@comcast.net

Year: 

2004

Venkatesh Vankipuram

Email: 

venkat@unm.edu

Research Areas: 

Nano-Optics

Year: 

2005

Keith Wyman

Phone: 

(505) 277 1284

Office: 

OPSLs for Sodium GuideStars

Visiting Scholar

Alumni

Aram Gragossian

Email: 

agragoss@unm.edu

Phone: 

(505) 277 8497

Office: 

LAB 179

Research Areas: 

Research Area: High Harmonic Generation (HHG), Scintillator Dynamics

Year: 

2017

Shawn Hackett

Email: 

shawn.hackett@kirtland.af.mil

Phone: 

(505) 277 1284

Research Areas: 

OPSLs for Sodium GuideStars

Year: 

2016

Chia-Yeh Li (Pablo)

Email: 

cyli@unm.edu

Phone: 

(505) 277 1284 (lab)

Research Areas: 

THz Spectroscopy

Year: 

2016

Chengao Wang (Puff)

Email: 

puffwang@hotmail.com

Phone: 

(505) 277 1284 (lab)

Research Areas: 

Nonlinear Optics, Solid-State Lasers, Optically Pumped VCSELs

Year: 

2015

Seth Melgaard

Email: 

sdmelga@sandia.gov

Research Areas: 

Solid-State Laser Cooling, Near Field Imaging

Year: 

2013

Denis Seletskiy

Email: 

denisel@unm.edu

Phone: 

(505) 277-3301, 277-8497

Research Areas: 

Nano-Optics, Photonic Crystals, Laser Cooling

Year: 

2010

Brook Jilek

Email: 

st.brook@gmail.com

Research Areas: 

Ultrafast Optics

Year: 

2009

Wendy Patterson

Email: 

wendy5@unm.edu

Research Areas: 

Laser Cooling: in Rare-Earth Doped Solids, High Power OPOs

Year: 

2009

Daniel Bender

Email: 

dabende@sandia.gov

Phone: 

505-845-1239

Office: 

Bldg. 897 Rm. 4101 MS-1423, 1515 Eubank SE , Albuquerque, NM 87123

Research Areas: 

Ultrafast Optics, Near-Field Scanning Microscopy

Year: 

2008

Mark Fleharty

Email: 

mark.fleharty@gmail.com

Year: 

2008

Anca Mocfanescu

Email: 

amocofanescu@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Research Areas: 

Laser Cooling of Rare Earth Doped Solids, Nonlinear Optics

Year: 

2006

Toshi Hirayama

Email: 

peiinaz@hotmail.com

Research Areas: 

Ultrafast Optics

Year: 

2003

Chad Hoyt

Email: 

hoycha@bethel.edu

Research Areas: 

Laser Cooling of Rare Earth Doped Solids, Atom Optics

Year: 

2003

Joachim Zeller

Email: 

Joachim.Zeller@physik.uni-karlsruhe.de

Research Areas: 

Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors, Ultrafast Optics

Year: 

2002

Shahed Azarian

Email: 

shahedazarian@yahoo.com

Year: 

2000

Michael P. Hasselbeck

Email: 

mph@unm.edu

Phone: 

(505) 277-0590