Oct. 24, 2005 – Lehigh University opened the Smith Family Laboratory for Optical Technologies, a state-of-the-art optical research facility.

The new facility provides researchers the ability to make and analyze new classes of optical materials, and to model, design, test and fabricate new optical devices. The lab is intended to enable researchers from various fields to address a host of issues, including the use of novel photonic integration techniques for biomedical, military, pharmaceutical, and communication applications.