Optical Engineering at Northeastern

Optics Education at NU

Northeastern University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering offers an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering with a concentration in Electromagnetics, Plasmas, and Optics. Students may conduct their thesis research in optics, to prepare for an exciting career in optical communications, environmental measurements, optical sensing, biological or medical optics. This program combines courses in electromagnetics with courses addressing current topics in optics, and has a strong research component.
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The ECE department offers undergraduate electives in Electromagnetics, Optics for Engineers, Biomedical Optics, along with directed-study courses in specific areas such as modeling optical propagation in tissue, optical instrumentation, and image processing.

Optics education and research is also found in the departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.

Courses

EECE7105Optics For Engineers (Grad)DiMarzio
EECE5651Introduction to Photonic DevicesGhosh
EECE5654Design and Prototyping of Optical Systems for Engineering Applications DiMarzio
EECE5647Nanophotonics
BIOE5648Biomedical OpticsNiedre
EECE5698Introduction to Quantum EngineeringMittal
EECE4646Optics For Engineers (UG)DiMarzio, Mittal

Some Optics Research Groups at NU

Sam Chung's Group
BIOE Neurolab
Chuck DiMarzio's Group
ECE Optical Science Lab: Microsopy, Coherent Imaging, SIM
Qianqian Fang's Group
BIOE Computational Optics and Translational Imaging Lab
Christa Haase's Group
BIOE
Sunil Mittal's Group
ECE Quantum Photonics Lab
Hossein Mosallaei's Group
ECE Metamaterials Laboratory
Mark Niedre's Group
BIOE Biomedical Optics Research Group
Mohammad Abbas Yaseen's Group
BIOE Optical Microscopy and Neuro-Imaging Lab