Bell Labs Physical Research Lab

The mission of the Physical Research Lab is medium to long-term high-impact research primarily in areas of science and technology relevant to Lucent Technologies' focus on communications and networks. Specific areas of work include photonics components based on nonlinear optical materials and on semiconductors, etc.; physical optics; soft-condensed matter physics and technology, such as organic injection lasers and devices based on liquid crystals and polymers; physics of wireless propagation smart antennas; wireless components; information and communication theory; quantum information processing; biological computation including biology inspired algorithms and machine learning; nanoscale science and technology including nanoprobes for high resolution imaging of devices and materials; materials and condensed matter physics research including semiconductors such as nitrides, organic molecular crystals, new photonic materials; astrophysics and space science.