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Emerging Materials for Nanophotonics and Plasmonics: Roads Ahead
01 Nov 2018 | | Contributor(s):: Alexandra Boltasseva
In this presentation, I will discuss emerging material platforms including transparent conducting oxides, transition metal nitrides, oxides and carbides as well as two- and quasi-two-dimensional materials for future practical optical components across the fields of on-chip optics and...
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Hybrid Nanomaterials for Tailored Light-Matter Interactions
27 Nov 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Maiken H. Mikkelsen
In this lecture, I will provide an overview of our recent research demonstrating tailored light-matter interactions by leveraging ultra-small plasmonic cavitites fabricated using bottom-up techniques. Examples of our demonstrations include ultrafast spontaneous and single photon sources,...
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Plasmonics and Metasurfaces for Extreme Manipulation of Light
08 Mar 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Yongmin Liu
In this talk, I will present some of our work in the fascinating field of plasmonics and optical metasurfaces. First, I will discuss reconfigurable plasmonic lenses operating in microfluidic environment, which can dynamically diverge, collimate and focus surface plasmons [5]. Second, I will...
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[Illinois] Synthetic Optical Holography
26 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Brad Deutsch
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[Illinois] Ultra-thin Plasmonic Metasurfaces
05 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Mikhail A. Kats
Most optical components can be grouped under the umbrella of "bulk optics"; i.e. they generally have a non-negligible thickness compared to the wavelength of light. This is the case for prisms, lenses, etc., all of which must be of sufficient thickness such that light accumulates a...
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The PhotonicVASEfit Tutorial
18 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Ludmila Prokopeva, Alexander V. Kildishev
This online presentation will help you to get started with our simulation tool PhotonicVASEfit. In the introduction we explain the scenarios in which the simulation tool can be used. We describe the fitting models and give a demo with complete how-to-use instructions.
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New Frontiers in Terahertz Technology
13 May 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Mona Jarrahi
In this talk, I will describe some of our recent results on developing fundamentally new terahertz electronic/optoelectronic components and imaging/spectrometry architectures to mitigate performance limitations of existing terahertz systems.
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Spaser in Quantum Regime
12 Feb 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Mark I Stockman
The spaser have been introduced theoretically and discovered experimentally. We briefly consider quantum theory and latest results on spaser as an ultrafast quantum generator and amplifier of nanoplasmonic fields, ultrabright nanolabel, and highly-efficient nanosensor. We present latest original...
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[Illinois] Fundamentals of Nano-Optics and Plasmonics for the Biomedical Researcher
01 Aug 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Prashant K Jain
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Ongoing Transformation of Computational Nanophotonics
18 May 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Alexander V. Kildishev
Computational nanophotonics is one of the central tools of the science of light and photonic device engineering. It plays a crucial role in enabling optical technologies ranging from bio-sensing to quantum information processing. Up to the present, a plethora of various methods and commercial...
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Disordered Photonics
11 Apr 2014 | | Contributor(s):: Hui Cao
Most of the research in the field of photonics has focused on understanding and mitigating the effects of disorder which are often detrimental. For certain applications, however, intentionally introducing disorder can actually improve the device performance, e.g., in photovoltaics optical...
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Ultrafast & Broadband Photonic Signal Processing: From Microdevices to Control of RF Propagation
15 Jan 2013 | | Contributor(s):: Andrew M Weiner
This talk is part of the International Workshop "Novel Ideas in Optics: From Advanced Materials to Revolutionary Applications" hosted by Purdue University.
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Invisible cloaks and the perfect lens
16 May 2011 | | Contributor(s):: John Pendry
Refractive materials gives us some limited control of light: we can fashion lenses, and construct waveguides, but complete control of light is beyond simple refracting materials. Ideally we might wish to channel and direct light as we please just as we might divert the flow of a fluid....
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A Half Century of Nonlinear Optics
22 Mar 2011 | | 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 to control the group velocity of light.
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Random Lasers
19 May 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Mikhail A. Noginov
Random lasers are the simplest sources of stimulated emission without cavity, with the feedback provided by scattering in a gain medium. First proposed in the late 60’s, random lasers have grown to a large research field. This lecture reviews the state of the art of random lasers, provides...