Isaac Gallegos
Doctoral Researcher · University of Colorado Boulder
I'm a physics PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder, working on quantum photonics and photonic integrated circuits. Before Boulder I was in the Bouma Lab at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine (Harvard Medical School and MGH), developing methods in optical coherence tomography including spectroscopic OCT methods, spectral unmixing for photoacoustic imaging, and a micro-LED imaging system prototype. Outside the lab I travel, learn languages, play piano, and garden.
Currently: Finishing a laser safety calculator for evaluating tissue exposure limits and reading about topology and differential geometry.
Selected work
All projectsOCT gives you 3D structure, but not composition. This project adds molecular characterization to interferometric imaging — figuring out what a tissue is made of from how it scatters broadband light.
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical School NIR-II Photoacoustic ImagingAn all-fiber laser amplifier at 1064 nm, built for photoacoustic imaging. The point: use multiple wavelengths and inverse algorithms to identify molecules deep in tissue without any labels or dyes.
Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Harvard Medical SchoolRecent writing
All writingResearch interests
Currently my work centers on quantum photonics and photonic integrated circuits. I am also interested in applying novel methods in deep learning and AI t quantum information, photonics, and many-body and statistical physics more broadly. My research interests started with single-photon detection, nonlinear optics, and laser physics.
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