Prof. Peter R. Herman

Professor

Peter R. Herman received the B.Eng. degree (1980) in Engineering Physics at McMaster University. He earned M.A.S.c (1982) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees studying lasers and diatomic spectroscopy in the Physics Department at the University of Toronto that followed with a post-doctoral position at the Institute of Laser Engineering in Osaka University, Japan (1987) to the study of laser-plasma physics and X-ray lasers. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto in 1988 where he currently holds a full professor position. Professor Herman directs a large and collaborative research group that develops and applies laser technology and advanced beam delivery systems to control and harvest laser interactions in new frontiers of 3-D nanofabrication. Our mantra is: “We begin with light and we end with light devices.” To this end we are inventing new methods for processing internally inside optical materials that carve out highly compact and functional lightwave circuits, microfluidics, optofluidic systems, biophotonic sensors, and smart medical catheters. Our end goals are inventing new manufacturing processes and extending optical device and Lab-on-a-chip concepts towards more compact Lab-on-a-fiber and Lab-in-a-film microsystems. Our group collaborates with many academic and industry groups and has published more than 300 scientific journal and conference papers and 10 patents.

Membership / Awards:

• Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2000
• International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), conference co-chair & committees
• IEEE, Photonics Society, member
• Infrastructure Award, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT), 1999, 2000, 2005, 2009
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1987
• NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1987
• NSERC 1967 Science and Engineering Scholarship, 1980-1985

Dr. Jianzhao Li

Jianzhao Li received his B.Sc. degree from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, M.Sc. degree from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. His research experiences include laser, laser spectroscopy and microscopy, nonlinear and quantum optics, laser material processing and micro/nano-fabrication. His current research interests are laser-material interaction mechanism and combining advanced laser micro/nano-fabrication with multi-modal laser spectroscopy/microscopy for photonic, biophotonic and other applications. He is Senior Member of OSA and SPIE.

Dr. Stephen Ho

Stephen Ho received his B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science (Biomedical Engineering option) at the University of Toronto. He further his studies and received his M.A.Sc. degree and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering under the Photonics Group at the University of Toronto. His research interests are femtosecond laser micro and nano-machining, and laser fabrication of optofluidic lab-on-a-chips and 3-D structures inside transparent materials.

Gligor Djogo

Ph.D. Candidate

Gligor Djogo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is working on advanced photonic packaging of laser-fabricated optical circuit interconnects, with silicon photonic chips and fiber devices.

Polina Zavyalova

Ph.D. Candidate

Polina is a Ph.D candidate co-supervised by Prof Herman and Prof Sivanandam of the Dunalp Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics. She is working on femtosecond laser processing of Bragg gratings for astrophotonic applications.

Yueqi Wang

Ph.D Candidate

Yueqi is Ph.D student in Prof Herman's group working on photonic crystals in glass, using laser filament nano-capillaries.

Pok Man (Adrian) Chow

Ph.D. Candidate

Adrian is a Ph.D. student in Prof Herman's group working on developing AI tools for laser beam shaping and simulation.