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Illinois 2011 NanoBiophotonics Summer School: Poster Day: Tan Nguyen
Online Presentations | 29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s):: Tan Huu Nguyen, Nadia Jassim
Spectroscopy imaging.
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Illinois 2011 NanoBiophotonics Summer School: Poster Day: Yefu Wang
Online Presentations | 29 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s):: Yefu Wang, Nadia Jassim
Luminescent properties of rare earth nanoparticles for bioimaging and bioprobing.
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Illinois 2011 NanoBiophotonics Summer School: Summer School Commercial
Online Presentations | 16 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s):: Nadia Jassim
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Illinois 2011 NanoBiophotonics Summer School: Summer School Reactions!
Online Presentations | 04 Dec 2011 | Contributor(s):: Nadia Jassim
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Illinois iOptics Lecture 5: Deposited Nanorod Films for Biosensor Applications
Online Presentations | 17 May 2010 | Contributor(s):: Brian Cunningham
Planar photonic crystals have been used as the basis of many biological sensing devices. Here, we successfully demonstrated that the combination of a photonic crystal structure and a dielectric nanorod coating prepared by the glancing angle deposition technique can lead to significant increases...
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Illinois Nano EP Seminar Series Fall 2011: Current Status of Coherent Large-Scale InP Photonic Integrated Circuits
Online Presentations | 02 May 2012 | Contributor(s):: Frederick A. Kish, Jr.
The current state-of-the-art for large-scale lnP photonic integrated circuits (PICs) is reviewed with a focus on the devices and technologies that are driving the commercial scaling of these highly integrated devices. Specifically, high-capacity dense wavelength division multiplexed (DWDM)...
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Illinois: NanoBiophotonics Summer School: First Impressions (3min video)
Online Presentations | 10 Nov 2011 | Contributor(s):: Nadia Jassim
Nadia Jassim: Media Director (NanoHub/NCN@Illinois)Directed by/Edit:Nadia JassimAssistant Crew:Abby SobhObaid SarvanaThe National Science FoundationNanoHubIEEEBeckman Institute (UIUC)Strategic Initiative on ImagingMaterials Computation Centerhttp://light.ece.illinois.edu/nbss11/SCHOOL ORGANIZERS:...
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Innovation & Failure Learnings from 20+ Years in Silicon Valley
Online Presentations | 06 Jul 2022 | Contributor(s):: Mario Paniccia
The talk will give insights and learnings on the 20 year journey of taking silicon photonics from a crazy idea that no one thought would ever work to today being one of the key technologies used to transmit optical data in every data center around the world.
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Novel Plasmonic Materials and Nanodevices for Integrated Quantum Photonics
Online Presentations | 19 Jun 2017 | Contributor(s):: Mikhail Shalaginov
This research focuses on color centers in diamond that share quantum properties with single atoms. These systems promise a path for the realization of practical quantum devices such as nanoscale sensors, single-photon sources, and quantum memories. In particular, we explored an intriguing...
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Optical Hyperspace: Light in Metamaterials with Hyperbolic Dispersion
Online Presentations | 03 Nov 2016 | Contributor(s):: Evgenii Narimanov
The composites with opposite signs of the dielectric permittivity in two orthogonal directions, known as the hyperbolic metamaterials, represent a new "universality class" of optical media, with the light behavior which is qualitatively different from that in either metals or...
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Photonic Metamaterials: From Linear to Nonlinear Optics
Online Presentations | 14 Dec 2010 | 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 manipulation. While an enormous progress has been made in the field of linear optics of uniform...
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Photonic Structures with Topological Robustness: from Classical to Quantum
Online Presentations | 09 Jan 2017 | Contributor(s):: Mohammad Hafezi
In this talk, I demonstrate how similar physics can be observed for photons; specifically, how various quantum Hall Hamiltonians can be simulated in an optical platform. I report on the first observation of topological photonic edge state using silicon-on-insulator technology and our recent...
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S4 Tutorial P2: Example 2 - 1D Photonic Crystal
Online Presentations | 08 Apr 2021 | Contributor(s):: Enas Sakr, Peter Bermel
This presentation is part of the three part tutorial for the S4 tool (Stanford Stratified Structure Solver) on nanoHUB designed for the nanoHUB IGNITE challenge. In the tutorial, we give an overview of the S4 electromagnetic simulation tool, and demonstrate the basic features through three...
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S4 Tutorial P3: Example 3 - 1D Grating
Online Presentations | 08 Apr 2021 | Contributor(s):: Jie Zhu, Enas Sakr, Peter Bermel
This presentation is part of the three part tutorial for the S4 tool (Stanford Stratified Structure Solver) on nanoHUB and is designed for the nanoHUB IGNITE challenge. In the tutorial, we give an overview of the S4 electromagnetic simulation tool, and demonstrate the basic features through three...
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SCALE Electronics, Photonics, and Space, Oh My! - An Introduction to the EPICA Program
Online Presentations | 02 Jan 2024 | Contributor(s):: Hannah Dattilo
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Slow and Fast Light - Penetrating the Fog
Online Presentations | 16 Dec 2010 | 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 slow light schemes, such as coupled resonators and media with electromagnetically-induced...
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Surprising Nanophotonic Phenomena in Nature
Online Presentations | 11 Jul 2016 | Contributor(s):: Peter Bermel
A broad range of optical phenomena in nature have created long-standing mysteries. For example, what gives butterflies and birds their rich colors? And how can sightings of some unusual natural phenomena like mirages or ball lightning be explained? The process of solving these mysteries has...
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Surprising Nanophotonic Phenomena in Nature and Photonic Modeling with S4
Online Presentations | 17 Aug 2016 | Contributor(s):: Peter Bermel
I will show how S4sim, a transfer matrix-based optical simulation tool available on nanoHUB.org can be used to precisely calculate these behaviors. A few exciting real-world applications of this work will also be briefly discussed.
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World of Light
Online Presentations | 22 Sep 2022 | Contributor(s):: Atilla Ozgur Cakmak, The Micro Nano Technology - Education Center
In this presentation, World of Light, Atilla Ozgur Cakmak, Assistant Professor at Grand Valley State University, explains Photonics and more.
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[Illinois] Beckman Director's Seminar - Quantitative Phase Imaging
Online Presentations | 26 Nov 2012 | Contributor(s):: Gabriel Popescu
"Ever since the invention of the microscope in the 17th century, it has been observed that live cells are transparent under visible illumination, i.e. they do not absorb (or scatter) light significantly. Thus, a magnified image of cells will generally exhibit low contrast. In order to overcome...