Electro-Optics and Photonics Research
Research
Our challenging courses complement our unparalleled research opportunities. We offer 20 dedicated electro-optics labs on campus and have access to research and development facilities at the University of Dayton Research Institute, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and local industries to provide you with a path to success.
The Department of Electro-Optics and Photonics was recently awarded a grant from NSF to purchase new equipment that will drastically reduce the time it takes UD researchers, faculty and students to create a semiconductor device.

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
Faculty Research and Expertise
Learn more about Dr. Agha's research
Dr. Partha Banerjee is a professor of electro-optics and photonics at UD, where he served as director and then chair from 2012-2020. Previously, he was chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2000-2005. At UD, Dr. Banerjee has established the Holography and Metamaterials Lab, where he supervises research engineers and graduate and undergraduate students. He also supervises M.S. and Ph.D. students who are pursuing their research at Air Force research labs. He was general chair of OSA’s Digital Holography in 2010, 2016, 2019 and 2021. To date, Dr. Banerjee has published five textbooks, over 150 refereed journal papers, over 180 conference papers/presentations and holds one patent. He has supervised 26 Ph.D. dissertations and 17 M.S. theses. Dr. Banerjee is a fellow of OSA, SPIE and IoP. He received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Sigma Xi excellence award, the Dayton Area Associated Society Council’s Best Researcher Award, IEEE Dayton Section Photonics Society Award, the UD Alumni Research Award and the Vision Award. In recognition of his contribution to holography, he received the Holoknight award in 2019.
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