» Applied Optics Group    University of L'Aquila (Italy). Activities involve NDT on works of art and optical metrology. Staff, research areas, publications, links and lateral thinking section.    http://dau.ing.univaq.it/~laser

» Center for Adaptive Optics    An NSF Science and Technology Center dedicated to removing the blurring of images caused by changing distortions in optical systems with applications to Astronomy and Vision Science.    http://cfao.ucolick.org/

» Chair for BioMolecular Optics at the Physics Department of Ludwig-Maximilians University    München, Germany. Current research and development information on femtosecond laser technology, jobs, tour, faculty, and contact details.    http://www.bmo.physik.uni-muenchen.de/

» CoreCom - Lightwave Processing    A research consortium of Pirelli cables and systems and the Politecnico di Milano for optical lightwave processing.    http://www.corecom.it

» Diffraction by Periodic Structures    Research at the University of Sydney. In particular involves studies of diffraction by periodic structures, photonic and phononic crystals, transport properties of composite materials, and modes in systems of optical fibres.    http://physics.usyd.edu.au/theory/dif/dif.html

» ETHZ Quantum Optics Group    Homepage of the Quantum Optics Group at the ETHZ Institute for Quantum Electronics.    http://www.quantumoptics.ethz.ch/

» Electro-Optics Research Center    University of Texas at Arlington, nonlinear optics research in second harmonic generation, ionic selfassembled monolayer (ISAM) films, ellipsometry, waveguides, atomic force microscopy, and optical anisotropy.    http://www.uta.edu/optics/index.htm

» Engineering Photonics Group, Cranfield University    Topics include: fibre optic sensors, fiber Bragg gratings, long period gratings optical coherence tomography, flow measurement and speckle interferometry.    http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/soe/departments/processsystems/engineeringphotonics/

» Fiber Optics Group    Gives the activities of the Fiber Optics Group of the Institue of Physics at Wroclaw University of Technology.    http://www.if.pwr.wroc.pl/instytut/labe/labe/labe.html

» GAP-Optique    Research and Development center for Quantum Optics at the Group of Applied Physics (GAP), University of Geneva. Projects, prototypes, publications, members.    http://www.gap-optique.unige.ch/

» GUESS Research Group    High-resolution monochromatic optical system design, based on conventional and unconventional (diffractive and gradient-index) elements.    http://www.guess.h1.ru/

» High-Field Science Group, University of Michigan    Physics of ultra-high fields produced by intense and ultrashort-pulse-duration lasers. Applications to relativistic nonlinear optics, compact sources of ultrashort-duration x rays, protons and relativistic electrons.    http://www.eecs.umich.edu/USL-HFS/

» Laboratory Optical Means of Information    Fundamental and applied research in image restoration, quality assessment, theory of nondepolarizing optical systems, light scattering and radiation transfer at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.    http://losi.itgo.com/

» Laboratory of Adaptive Optics of Moscow State University    Devoted for research and development in adaptive optics, adive optical elements such as bimorph mirrors, wavefront sensors, etc.; optics of the human eye, nonliner dynamics, nonlinear properties of polimers, etc.    http://www.optics.ru

» Laboratory of Nonlinear Optics of Nanostructures and Photonic Crystals    Laboratory of nonlinear optics of nanostructures and photonic crystals, Aktsipetrov O.A., Murzina T.V., Fedyanin A.A., Maidykovsky A.I.    http://www.shg.ru/

» Laser Optics and Spectroscopy Group    Physics Department of Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, UK.    http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research/qols/

» Laser Physics Group    A collection of links to the fields of laser, quantum, atomic, molecular physics and optics.    http://www.phys.umu.se/laser/physlink.htm

» NASA JPL Optical Communications Group    The Optical Communications Group at NASA / JPL is developing the next generation of optical communications systems that are 10 to 100 times faster than current state-of-the-art systems.    http://lasers.jpl.nasa.gov

» Nonlinear Optics Laboratory at ETH Zurich    The nonlinear optics laboratory is part of the institute of quantum electronics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Switzerland. The main research topics are nonlinear optical materials and methods for frequency conversion and optical co    http://www.nlo.ethz.ch

» Nonlinear Optics and Photonics Group    Nonlinear Optics and Photonics Group is part of the Department of Theoretical Physics at the National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering "Horia Hulubei", Bucharest, Romania.    http://www.theory.nipne.ro/NLO/

» Optical Sciences Center    Education, research and outreach in the science and application of light.    http://www.optics.arizona.edu/

» Photonics Communication Research Laboratory    Includes research areas, staff and publications.    http://www.telecom.ece.ntua.gr/photonics/

» Photonics Engineering and Health Technology Research    Specialises in non-invasive optical monitoring systems for medical, surgical and personal health applications. Page contains list of staff and current projects, A part of the Loughborough University in the UK.    http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/el/research/photonics/

» Quantum Optics    Provides an overview of the research, the people and publications in the field at Caltech.    http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~qoptics/

» Research Group on Semiconductors    Group of Prof. Lorenzo Pavesi. Research on Porous Silicon. Photonics Devices. University of Trento (Italy)    http://www.science.unitn.it/~semicon/

» SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering    SPIE is dedicated to advancing the scientific research and engineering applications of optics, optical, photonic, imaging and optoelectronic technologies through international conferences, education programs and publications.    http://spie.org

» School of Optics/CREOL    Graduate school/Research center in optics and photonics.    http://www.creol.ucf.edu/

» Specialty Fiber Optics Development Laboratory at Rutgers University    Development of specialty fiber optics for the transmission of infrared energy for a variety applications. Professor James A. Harrington    http://irfibers.rutgers.edu/

» The Group of Applied Physics (GAP) at Geneva University (GAP-Optique)    Research and Development center for Quantum Optics at the Group of Applied Physics (GAP), University of Geneva. Projects, prototypes, publications, members.    http://www.gapoptique.unige.ch/

» The Institute of Photonics    A commercially-oriented research unit, working as part of the University of Strathclyde, but with industrial requirements significantly influencing the research agenda.    http://www.photonics.ac.uk

» University of Reading, Infrared Multilayer Laboratory    Design, manufacture and testing of infrared optical filters and coatings for atmospheric sensing instrumentation.    http://www.irfilters.reading.ac.uk/

» University of Rochester: The Institute of Optics    Institute of Optics at Rochester.    http://www.optics.rochester.edu/

» Vahala Research Group at Caltech    The Vahala Research Group at the California Institute of Technology currently focuses on silica high-Q and ultra-high-Q microresonators.    http://www.vahala.caltech.edu

» Visual Optics and Biophotonics Group. Institute of Optics, CSIC, Madrid    Research activities on: Optical quality of the human eye; New technology for non-invasive assessment of the visual system. Ocular aberrations: normal eye, pathological and surgical eyes; Ocular biometry and biophotonics.    http://www.vision.csic.es

» Webpage on Fiber Optics. Claudio Vinegoni - Home Page    Webpage on Fiber Optics. Claudio Vinegoni Articles on Fiber Optics. Electrochromic Materials. Physics. Porous silicon and optical Spectroscopy. Raman Spectroscopy.    http://www.quantacomm.com