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Opening Remarks
Online Presentations | 05 Apr 2016 | Contributor(s):: Vladimir M. Shalaev
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VIRTUAL PHOTONS: From Lamb’s shift to Dicke’s superradiance
Online Presentations | 05 Apr 2016 | Contributor(s):: Marlan O. Scully, Dawei Wang
The effects of virtual photons are very real. The Lamb shift and Unruh radiation are examples. It may even be possible to make real advances from virtual processes in solar cells. The three main topics to be covered are: The Lamb Shift Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; Unruh Radiation is a...
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Quantum Error Correction for Metrology
Online Presentations | 05 Apr 2016 | Contributor(s):: Fedor Jelezko
I will discuss recent developments transforming quantum control tools into quantum technologies based on single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond. I will present ultrasensitive MRI at nanoscale and recently developed magnetometry protocols that use quantum error correction as a resource....
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Hybrid Perovskite Optoelectronics
Online Presentations | 05 Apr 2016 | Contributor(s):: Tao (Tom) Wu
I will discuss the perspective of applying hybrid perovskites in photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices, with a focus on photodetectors and phototransistors. Our experiments on perovskite phototransistors provided direct evidence on the ambipolar transport in perovskite films with balanced...
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Plasmonics and Metasurfaces for Extreme Manipulation of Light
Online Presentations | 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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Engineering Diamond Color Centers for Quantum Information and Sensing
Online Presentations | 11 Feb 2016 | Contributor(s):: Philip Hemmer
For over a decade diamond color centers like the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) have been investigated for applications ranging from quantum storage registers to room temperature quantum computers to quantum enhanced bio-sensors. Recently silicon-vacancy (SiV) centers in diamond have showed potential to...
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[Illinois] Signal Processing at Light Speed: Ultrashort Optical Pulse Generation with Arbitrary Waveforms
Online Presentations | 29 Jan 2016 | Contributor(s):: Claire Mcghee
We aim to further improve early detection of cancer biomarkers, including metal ion and small molecules, using functional DNA as the selective component for photonic crystal surface enhanced Raman scattering (PC-SERS) based detection. It is known that gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) display SERS...
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[Illinois] Using Photonic Crystals to Enhance SERS Signals for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer
Online Presentations | 29 Jan 2016 | Contributor(s):: Caitlin Race
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer for men, and the second leading cause of death due to cancer in men. Currently, the most common screening method aims to detect high levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in blood. Our research has shown the potential for both better prostate...
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Atom-photon Interactions In 1D Photonic Crystals: From cQED to band-gap physics
Online Presentations | 05 Jan 2016 | Contributor(s):: Jonathan Hood
We investigate opportunities that emerge from the integration of cold atoms with nanoscopic photonic crystal waveguides (PCWs). PCWs enable the light-matter interaction to be engineered for both trapping and strong atom-photon coupling, thereby opening new avenues for novel quantum transport and...
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A Crash Course in Nanophotonic Simulations
Online Presentations | 18 Jun 2015 | Contributor(s):: Peter Bermel
This seminar will cover rapid, scalable computational methods used in simulating optical reflection,transmission, and absorption in complex structures. After a brief survey of the tools available, the S4 simulation tool will be demonstrated in detail.
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The PhotonicVASEfit Tutorial
Online Presentations | 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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Ultrafast Photonic Signal Processing: A Quarter Century Perspective
Online Presentations | 28 May 2015 | Contributor(s):: Andrew M Weiner
In this lecture I will begin with a brief introduction to ultrafast optics and specifically to methods permitting shaping of ultrafast laser fields on time scales too fast for direct electronic control. For contrast I will first provide some brief perspective on the state of my research around...
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Towards Light-Spin Interface for NV Center in Diamond
Online Presentations | 17 Mar 2015 | Contributor(s):: Alexey V Akimov
In this work we present our efforts on using CMOS compatible hyperbolic metamaterials and optical fibers to construct efficient single-photon sources and sensing elements using NV center in diamond.
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Quantum Optics in New Systems: From Plasmonics to Cold Atoms
Online Presentations | 17 Mar 2015 | Contributor(s):: Alexey V Akimov
In my talk I will describe our activities in both field on quantum interfaces and cold atoms
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Spaser in Quantum Regime
Online Presentations | 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] Spectral Method for Linear and Nonlinear Phenomena in Nanophotonics
Online Presentations | 29 Dec 2014 | Contributor(s):: Qing Huo Liu
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Addressing the Inverse Problem of Optical Imaging
Online Presentations | 10 Sep 2014 | Contributor(s):: Aaron Lewis
"Addressing the inverse problem of imaging" by Prof. Aaron Lewis from the Nanonics NanoPhotonics workshop.
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Ongoing Transformation of Computational Nanophotonics
Online Presentations | 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
Online Presentations | 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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[Illinois] CNST 2012: Gold Nanoparticles In, On, and Around Cells
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s):: Cathy Murphy
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