Rate My Professor Juliet Gopinath

Gopinath leads the Optics and Photonics Research Group, specializing in ultrafast and high-power continuous-wave and pulsed lasers, beam combining, mid-infrared sources and materials, spectroscopy of semiconductors and novel materials, rare-earth doped media, micro- and optofluidics, and orbital angular momentum of light. Current projects encompass adaptive optics, LIDAR systems, pulsed and continuous-wave sources overcoming fundamental laser constraints, and applications in sensors, communications, medical imaging and surgery, water purification, and environmental monitoring. She has authored numerous key publications, including “Recent advances in stimulated emission depletion (STED) superresolution microscopy for in vivo imaging” in APL Photonics (2026), “Ultrahigh-Q chalcogenide micro-racetrack resonators” in Applied Physics Letters (2026), “Impact of Mechanically Applied Strain on Auger Recombination in InGaAs Multiple Quantum Wells” in Applied Physics Letters (2025), “Nonmechanical spectral domain optical coherence tomography using an electrowetting beam-scanner” in Optics Express (2025), and “Tunable liquid lens for three-photon excitation microscopy” in Biomedical Optics Express (2024). Her contributions have earned the NSF CAREER Award (2016), Optica Fellow status (2021), R&D 100 Award (2012), University of Colorado Boulder Provost Achievement Award (2016), University of Colorado Engineering Research Award (2025), and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (1998-2001). Gopinath serves as Associate Editor for Optica since 2020 and previously for IEEE Photonics Society Journal (2011-2017), and she engages in teaching, outreach, and committee service, advancing interdisciplinary photonics and quantum engineering.