Current Projects: Radiation Pressure Induced Photon-Phonon Coupling at Nanoscales, Self-Adaptive Optomechanical Systems and Open-System Energetics, Novel Laser Sources Based on Photon-Phonon Interactions Biographical Sketch: The Rakich group focuses on experimental nonlinear optics and spectroscopy. Research areas include: the study of natural and artificial forms of optical nonlinearity in nanostructured effective media; the dynamics and evolution of nonlinear systems at new time and length scales; optical forces and energetics in nanoscale systems; nonlinear nano-optomechanical interactions.