2010 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School @ UIUC Lecture 3 - Fourier optics - Nonlinear optics - Microscopy

25 Sep 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kimani C Toussaint

Ray optics-Limit of wave optics when wavelength is infinitesimally small Wave optics-provides a description of optical phenomena using scalar wave theory Electromagnetic optics- provides most …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9745

A Half Century of Nonlinear Optics

22 Mar 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Robert W. Boyd

In this talk, we first present a review of the development of the field of nonlinear optics, and we then survey some areas of recent research including quantum imaging and implications of the ability …

https://nanohub.org/resources/10994

ECE 616 Lecture 20: Propagation Equation for Nonlinear Refractive Index Media

22 Nov 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Andrew M Weiner

Related reading: Ultrafast Optics, 5.1-5.2, 6.1. This online course is made available on nanoHUB.org by NSF grant ECCS-1102110, High Repetition Rate Photonic Frequency Combs and Applications.

https://nanohub.org/resources/12462

ECE 616 Lecture 23a: High Order Propagation Effects - Delayed Nonlinear Index and Raman Scattering

15 Feb 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Andrew M Weiner

Related reading: Ultrafast Optics, 6.7.

https://nanohub.org/resources/13151

ECE 616 Lecture 23b: High Order Propagation Effects - Delayed Nonlinear Index and Raman Scattering

15 Feb 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Andrew M Weiner

Related reading: Ultrafast Optics, 6.7.

https://nanohub.org/resources/13152

Illinois ECE 398 Lecture 18: Optoelectronics I - Light Emitting Diodes & Lasers

14 Jun 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kent D Choquette

[Prof. Choquette's] Photonic device research group is involved in the study of semiconductor photonic and optoelectronic device physics, fabrication technologies, and systems with a strong emphasis …

https://nanohub.org/resources/11160

KIST/PU Bridging Nonlinear Optical Imaging and Nanotechnology with Medicine

23 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ji-Xin Cheng

Our interdisciplinary research develops and utilizes state-of-the-art optical imaging techniques and nanotechnology to tackle compelling biomedical problems highly related to human health. Research …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3396

KIST/PU Introduction to Global Research Laboratory (GRL) Program: Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine for Theragnosis using Nano-Bio Materials

23 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kui Won Choi

The Global Research Laboratory (GRL) program was initiated by the Korea Foundation for International Cooperation of Science and Technology (KICOS) in 2006. The GRL program has been designed to …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3386

Linear and Nonlinear Optical Devices Based on Slow Light Propagation: Figures of Merit

19 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jacob B. Khurgin

Performance of optical delay lines and nonlinear devices based on slow wave propagation in photonic crystal waveguides in the presence of higher order dispersion is analyzed and compared with other …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4399

Metamaterials, Part 2: Negative-Index, Nonlinear Optics and Super/Hyper-Lenses

01 May 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev

Part 2/3. Metamaterials are expected to open a gateway to unprecedented electromagnetic properties and functionality unattainable from naturally occurring materials, thus enabling a family of new …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4267

Negative Refraction, Wave-particle Dualism and “Minkowski-Abraham controversy”

19 Nov 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Victor G. Veselago

Professor Veselago was the first to identify that the relationships between energy and linear momentum are significantly different for electromagnetic radiation and material particles. The process of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/15902

Nonlinear and Magnetooptic Control of Light in Metamaterials and Superfocussing

15 Jan 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Allan Boardman

This talk is part of the International Workshop "Novel Ideas in Optics: From Advanced Materials to Revolutionary Applications" hosted by Purdue University. Allan is a Fellow of the SPIE and is also …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16491

Opening Remarks

13 Jan 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Vladimir M. Shalaev

This talk is part of the International Workshop "Novel Ideas in Optics: From Advanced Materials to Revolutionary Applications" hosted by Purdue University. Discovery Park

https://nanohub.org/resources/16463

Photonic Metamaterials: From Linear to Nonlinear Optics

14 Dec 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Natalia Litchinitser

Metamaterials open unparalleled opportunities for "engineering" previously inaccessible values of refractive indices from positive to near-zero and even negative values, and new avenues for light …

https://nanohub.org/resources/10185

Plasmonic Metamaterials: Unusual Optics and Applications

28 Feb 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Igor Smolyaninov

Surface plasmon-polaritons (or plasmons) are collective excitations of the conduction electrons and the electromagnetic field on the surface of such good metals as gold and silver. Near the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4033

Routing Light with Nematicons: Light Localization and Steering in Liquid Crystals

10 Oct 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gaetano Assanto

Nematic liquid crystals support optical spatial solitons via light-induced molecular reorientation. Such all-optical waveguides can channel a signal towards a destination, hence permitting signal …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3271

Taming Light and Electrons with Metamaterials

11 Jul 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Nader Engheta

In recent years, in my group we have been working on various aspects of metamaterials and plasmonic nano-optics. We have introduced and been developing the concept of "metatronics", i.e. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/11392

Transformation Optics and Sub Wavelength Control of Light

13 Jan 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): John Pendry

Keynote presentation.

https://nanohub.org/resources/16166

[Illinois] Biophotonics 2012: Nonlinear Optics

23 May 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Kimani C Toussaint

Biophotonics Summer School 2012 May 21st - June 1st 2012 Urbana-Champaign, Illinois The Biophotonics Summer School brings together from a wide variety of disciplines to teach students about the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/14070