Physics Department
City College of the City University of New York
Convent Avenue and 138 th Street
New York, NY 10031
Office J201, Marshak Science Building
Office Phone ( 212) 650 - 5531
E-mail ralfano@ccny.cuny.edu
Fax ( 212) 650 - 5530
Web Link Profile of R. Alfano
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Ultrafast laser physics, tunable solid-state lasers, semiconductors, nonlinear optics and biomedical optics imaging and spectroscopy. He has been one of the prime movers in optical biopsy and optical mammography. His group introduced fluorescence and Raman scattering to detect cancer and ballistic and snake photons for imaging in turbid media. See web link for more details.