Anne (Annie) R. Kroo
PhD Candidate Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford University
I am deeply passionate about optics and science and enjoy leveraging my expertise in the optical domain to contribute to the scientific community through the development of novel sensors and sensing methods.
Engineering diffraction patterns to encode chemical and physical sensor information in retroreflected beam in passive distributed sensing scheme.
Designing photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to make programmable optical filters that operate as on-chip optimized Raman and Gas spectrometers.
Using photonic integrated circuits to analyze correlations between optical fields at different points in time and space.
Intuition is a fundamental part of research. As topics increase in complexity and obscurity, it can be hard to find tools that can help one build intuition. For my own work in photonic integrated circuits and analyzing partially coherent light, I have found this to be especially true. For future students and for my own edification, I am developing a set of interactive web-based tools to play with photonic circuits and the statistical properties of light. This process has been dramatically accelerated by AI tooling. All of these demos are a work in progress with several more in the planning stages.
Diagonal Line Photonic Integrated Circuit
Statical Optical Source and Field Autocorrelation