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

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

Optical Sensors 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/cpoe

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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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.io.csic.es

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

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

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/

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/

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

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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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/

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

Ultrafast Photonics Collaboration
- An interdisciplinary research collaboration comprising 5 UK universities and 7 industrial collaborators. Research projects, news, partnership information.
- http://www.ultrafast-photonics.org/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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