{"id":82,"date":"2017-02-27T19:36:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renningerlab.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-27T02:12:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T02:12:42","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group focuses on experimental and theoretical nonlinear optics for a variety of applications.\u00a0 Research includes ultrafast nonlinear optics for applications such as bio-imaging, light-sound interactions for applications including RF-photonics and quantum computing, and optical computing platforms for low-power brain-scale information processing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recent News:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wendao successfully defended his thesis and heads off to Corning.<\/li>\n<li>Yahel Grullon and Jessie Ledesma deliver final presentations after fantastic summer research programs this year.<\/li>\n<li>The group gives six talks at CLEO 2025.\u00a0 Congrats team!<\/li>\n<li>Kelsey McEwen and Junchi Zhang join the team.\u00a0 Welcome!!<\/li>\n<li>Renninger receives the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/2025-pecase-recipients-presidential-early-career-award-for-scientists-and-engineers-636132\/\">Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers<\/a> (PECASE).\u00a0 Thanks to everyone&#8217;s support from mentors to students to the university and the US government!<\/li>\n<li>Wendao&#8217;s ultra-narrow linewidth Brillouin scattering results published in <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/app\/article\/10\/1\/016108\/3331427\/Ultranarrow-linewidth-stimulated-Brillouin\">APL Photonics<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Surface acoustic wave work featured in OPN&#8217;s &#8216;Optics in 2024&#8217; issue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optica-opn.org\/home\/articles\/volume_35\/december_2024\/extras\/coherent_optical_coupling_to_surface_acoustic_wave_devices\/\">here!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Arjun and Wendao publish a simple optical method to access and control surface acoustic waves in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-48167-7\">Nature Communications<\/a>.\u00a0 See the recent news article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/surface-acoustic-waves-techniques-quantum-internet-605922\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Yuelin Chen, Connor Hewson, and Liam Young join the group for their PhDs. Welcome!!<\/li>\n<li>Renninger receives the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optica.org\/get_involved\/awards_and_honors\/awards\/award_descriptions\/adolphlomb\/\">Adolph Lomb Medal<\/a> and the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/september-2023-faculty-awards-accolades-568752\/\">DARPA Young faculty Award<\/a>.\u00a0 Incredible to join such amazing company!<\/li>\n<li>Haozhen Xu joins the group. Welcome!<\/li>\n<li>Emily DeVeyra joins the group for summer 2023. Welcome!<\/li>\n<li>Arjun Iyer wins &#8220;Best Presentation Award&#8221; at WOMBAT 2022 at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany.\u00a0 Congrats Arjun!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1842\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Tag4_Prizes-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Tag4_Prizes-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Tag4_Prizes-828x1024.jpg 828w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Tag4_Prizes-768x950.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Tag4_Prizes-1242x1536.jpg 1242w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Tag4_Prizes-1655x2048.jpg 1655w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/2022-06-17_Tag4_Prizes.jpg 1872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/> \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1862\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/talkprize-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/talkprize-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/talkprize.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1872\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Group-picture-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Group-picture-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Group-picture-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Group-picture.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chirped pulses recently discovered in normal dispersion fiber Kerr resonators &#8211;\u00a0 this research is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osapublishing.org\/optica\/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-8-6-861&amp;id=451795\">Optica<\/a> and a news article can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/novel-chirped-pulses-defy-conventional-wisdom-484312\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The femtosecond team discovers an exciting new soliton which supports the shortest pulses to date from fiber Kerr resonators &#8211; now published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.125.033902\">Physical Review Letters<\/a>.\u00a0 News article found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/rochester-versatile-ultrafast-laser-pulse-445912\/\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Group wins the 2020 NSF CAREER award for research in optomechanics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interested PhD candidates are encouraged to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hajim.rochester.edu\/optics\/graduate\/apply.html\">apply<\/a> to the Institute of Optics.\u00a0 Current Rochester PhD\u00a0 candidates are encouraged to <a href=\"mailto:william.renninger@rochester.edu\">email<\/a> to discuss research opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Several Master&#8217;s thesis and undergraduate research projects are also available for admitted students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The group is currently recruiting exceptionally qualified postdocs.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a short excerpt for the about&nbsp;page. <a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/renninger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}