Major & Minor
Pursue a degree or take courses in optics or optical engineering.
Graduate Studies
We emphasize collaboration and collegiality in our master’s and doctoral programs.
Optics Research
Research includes quantum optics, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, and more.
Recent News
Industrial Associates
The IA Program provides training and informational benefits to participating companies and allows the Institute to learn more about industry needs and concerns. This exchange improves our partners’ ability to use modern optical technology while increasing our ability to educate individuals to assume key roles within their companies.
Photon Camp 2019
Optics Camp for Local High School Students
The Photon Camp is a free, one-week program where rising high school juniors and seniors can explore the growing field of optics and optical engineering.
Feature Story
Resolving quantum ‘weirdness’: A new look at the duality of light
For 90 years physicists have known that incompatibly opposite properties are inherent in all elementary particle—such as electrons, photons, and mesons—and any of them can be observed to have either property at any time. Now University of Rochester researchers say they’ve resolved this weird and inescapable wave-particle duality.
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