Prof. George Barbastathis

Professor of Optics and Mechanical Engineering

Primary DLC

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT Room: 3-461C

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Information Photonics
Optical imaging
3D Optics
3D Nanomanufacturing

Classical Optics
--3D Optical Systems
--Volume Holography for Imaging Systems (3D Pupils)
--3D Spatial and Spectral Microscopy Without Scanning
--Underwater Imaging by Fleets of Autonomous Vehicles
--Holographic Particle Image Velocimetry
--Quantitative Phase Recovery
--Space-Frequency Analysis of Optical Systems

Subwavelength Optics: Non-Periodic High-Index-Contrast Dielectrics ("Metamaterials")
--Hamiltonian Optics
--Transformation Optics for Imaging
--Cloaking
--Nonlinear Metamaterial Optics

Nanostructured Origami
--3D Fabrication and Assembly Process
--Micromechanical Actuators for 3D Nanophotonics

Recent Work