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Cornell University

Rivera Lab

Physics of light and matter

Welcome! Here, you can learn about our research on light-matter interactions. Light-matter interactions are central to a wide range of technologies and applications such as lasers, sensors, materials characterization, optical communication, computing, and medical imaging. With my collaborators, I work on identifying new fundamental effects in light-matter interactions, and translating these new effects into new devices and new applications.

Our lab does both theoretical and experimental work, and the interaction between theory and experiment is a basic feature of our work. Also of major importance to us is developing first-principles computational methods to accurately predict the results of experiments. We have a strong track-record of developing models that both closely track experiments and predict new effects.