SRI's Applied Optics Laboratory provides complete services in fundamental science, applied research, engineering, and field testing.

The laboratory's staff has expertise in optics, optoelectronics, acoustics, electrical engineering, physics, materials science, and chemistry. Technical specialties include modeling, computational materials and device design, development of novel materials, fabrication of prototype devices, and sensors.

The laboratory maintains specialized facilities and equipment for these capabilities:

• State-of-the-art in-house and commercial modeling tools for electronic structures and electromagnetic wave propagation

• Optical characterization of materials and surfaces across the electromagnetic spectrum, from ultraviolet to long-wavelength infrared

• Materials synthesis and characterization

• Optical and infrared measurements

• Epitaxial growth and fabrication of custom III-V semiconductor wafers

• Printing of novel electronic materials