• Professor, Electrical Engineering
• Director, W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics

Baskin School of Engineering
1156 High St
Mail Stop SOE2
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Phone Number: 831-459-1482

Department: Electrical Engineering

Office Location: Baskin Engineering, Room 245

E-Mail Address:

Web Pages

• Applied Optics research group:
• W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics

Biography

Holger Schmidt received an M.S. degree in physics from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1994, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. After serving as a postdoctoral fellow with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, he joined the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2001. He is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics.
Prof. Schmidt has authored over 190 publications and several book chapters in various fields of optics. He recently edited the first Handbook of Optofluidics published with CRC Press. His research interests include single molecule detection and analysis in optofluidic devices, hollow-core waveguide photonics, atomic spectroscopy on a chip, and nano-magneto-optics. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Optical Society of America and American Physical Society. He received an NSF Career Award in 2002 and a Keck Futures Nanotechnology Award in 2005.

Research Areas

Optofluidics, atom photonics, hollow-core photonics for biomedicine and quantum optics, nano-magnetism, nano-magneto-optics, single-particle spectroscopy, ultrafast optics

Selected Publications

• Handbook of Optofluidics
• Optofluidic waveguides: I. Concepts and implementations
• Atomic spectroscopy on a chip
• Slow light on a chip via atomic quantum state control.
• Magneto-optical observation of picosecond dynamics of single nanomagnets

Current and Future Classes

Spring 2013

• EE 280O: Seminar on Applied Optics

Fall 2013

• EE 145: Properties of Materials
• EE 145L: Properties of Materials Laboratory
• EE 280O: Seminar on Applied Optics

Winter 2014

• EE 211: Introduction to Nanotechnology
• EE 280O: Seminar on Applied Optics

Students & Researchers

• Cassidy Russell Berk (Graduate)
• Jennifer Anne Black (Graduate)
• Rebekah Brandt (Graduate)
• Kaelyn Leake (Graduate)
• Shuo Liu (Graduate)
• Damla Ozcelik (Graduate)
• Josh Parks (Graduate)
• Yu Yahagi (Graduate)
• Tom Yuzvinsky (Researcher)

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