Biography

Charles Reinke's home town is Vaiden, MS. He received his B.S. in Physics from Jackson State University in 2000 and his B.S.E.E and M.S.E.E. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2007, respectively. Currently, Charles is working on his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech, with an expected graduation date of May 2008.

He has participated in numerous summer interships with organizations such as MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and Lucent's Bell Labs (from whom he received a graduate fellowship). During these programs, he worked on projects ranging from DWDM fiber component characterization, to Raman fiber amplification, to soliton pulse generation for high-speed communications networks.

Charles's current research projects involve characterization of novel photonic crystal structures as well as studying the effects of nonlinear optical materials in photonic crystals. His technical interests include photonic integrated circuit technology, applications of quantum optical structures, and optical computing.

Research Interests