Photonic Systems Group

Much of the credit for the team's progress is attributed to the advanced facilities available in Calit2's 2,000-square-foot Photonic Systems Lab. The facility at Calit2 has a telecom-class space for supporting multicasting, synchronization, sampling, and system integration in one place, which has been absolutely fundamental in the achievements by the group. The laboratory closely emulates the Bell Laboratories model and has no equivalent in a university setting.

The Photonic Systems Lab is modeled on the large, modular, industrial research labs where Professor Radic worked previously: Corning Research (1995-98) and Bell Labs (1998-2003).

The Nano3 facility in the Calit2 building at UC San Diego  provides advanced capabilities for fabrication and characterization in a state-of-the-art cleanroom opened in May 2006. The name Nano3 reflects the synergistic nature of the facility, focusing on three fields of nanoscale research and development within the space - Nanoscience, Nanoengineering and Nanomedicine. In addition to providing essential nanofabrication capabilities for research on electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices, the facility is intended to facilitate the pursuit of research in emerging, interdisciplinary, and rapidly growing fields such as biomedical and biochemical devices, heterogeneous integrated devices and circuits, and sensor technology.