The Center for Advanced Photonics at Temple University focuses on using intense laser radiation to manipulate matter for new synthetic strategies, new chemical sensing paradigms, and the development of novel materials. Recent projects include the use of strong field laser pulses as photonic reagents, the use of shaped laser pulses to control filamentation in the solution phase, the pursuit of the first new form of oxygen to be created in 160 years (cyclic O3), the discovery of new photodissociation mechanisms based on long-lived charge transfer states and the construction of a new NMR apparatus to study laser control of solution phase reactions. The Center is composed of six faculty, fourteen students and several post-doctoral researchers in the areas of chemistry and physics. The research carried out is a mixture of chemical physics, intense-laser design, search algorithm development, and optical pulse shaping.

Recent Publications Include:

"Ultrafast hot-carrier dynamics at chemically modified Ge interfaces probed by SHG" McClelland, A.; Fomenko, V.; Borguet, E. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 40, 19784-19787 (2006).

McNavage W.; Dai HL. "Two-dimensional cross-spectral correlation analysis and its application to time-resolved Fourier transform emission spectra of transient radicals." Journal of Chemical Physics 123 (18): Art. No. 184104 (2005).

Spano FC. "Adsorption in regio-regular poly(3-hexyl)thiophene thing films: Fermi resonances, interband coupling and disorder". Chemical Physics 325 (1): 22-35 (2006).

Siddiqui MSU.; Stanley RJ. “A cryogenic optical waveguide spectrometer for the measurement of low-temperature absorption spectra of dilute biological samples”. Analytical Biochemistry 337 (1): 121-129 (2005).

Elliott R.; Compton R.; Levis R .; Matsika S. "Excited electronic states of the cyclic isomers of O-3 and SO2". Journal of Physical Chemistry A 109 (49): 11304-11311 (2005).