Making a Difference Through Engineering

Learn more about the work we're doing at UD by exploring our areas of research, labs and related centers.


Areas of Research

  • LiDAR and free-space optical communications
  • Silicon photonics
  • Digital and dynamic holography
  • Atmospheric optics
  • Thin-film optical engineering
  • Optical lithography
  • Optical information processing
  • Nonlinear optics
  • Nanophotonics and metamaterials


Related Engineering Research Centers
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LiDAR and Optical Communications Institute link-arrow link-arrow

Offers laser radar curriculum and consolidates the brainpower of the region's lidar researchers — instructors from the University of Dayton and the Air Force Institute of Technology.

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All Engineering Centers and Institutes link-arrow link-arrow

At UD, centers and institutes extend our focus on experiential learning beyond the classroom into a variety of co-curricular activities.