Jun 6, 2021
Mohammad Shahili has been selected to receive the prestigious Department of Defense (DoD) National Defense and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Awardees receive a competitive package lasting for three years that pays for their tuition and fees, as well as...
Jun 6, 2020
The heart of a QC-VECSEL is the amplifying metasurface, in which a reflectarray of antenna-coupled THz QC-gain elements with subwavelength spacing operate collectively to amplify and reflect incident THz radiation. Ordinarily, that occurs through an array of ridge...
Sep 24, 2019
The 15th instance of the Infrared Terahertz Quantum Workshop (ITQW) was held in Ojai, CA from September 15-20, 2019. It was hosted by the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA, with Prof. Ben Williams as the general chair and organizer. This...
Sep 20, 2019
A UCLA-led research team has developed a laser that can be tuned across a broad part of the terahertz band of the light spectrum. The technology could improve drug screening equipment by making them able to analyze more compounds, or the technology could be...
Dec 24, 2017
Our VECSEL makes the cover of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics for Nov/Dec 2017. This issue contains our paper “Terahertz metasurface quantum-cascade VECSELs: theory and performance,” authored by L. Xu, C. A. Curwen, D. Chen, J. L. Reno, T. Itoh,...
May 30, 2017
Luyao Xu has been awarded the UCLA EE Department “Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award in Physical & Wave Electronics” for 2016-17. Congratulations! Her thesis reported the first realization of a metasurface laser and: the quantum-cascade metasurface THz VECSEL...
