Nanophotonics and nanophotonic materials for highly integrated optics and optoelectronics
IEEE AESS Boston Section Chapter (Region 1 Northeastern US), IEEE AESS Melbourne Section (Australia), and IEEE AESS Queensland Section (Australia).
Nanophotonics is the science of light in small spaces — confining electromagnetic radiation to volumes below the diffraction limit. Tricking waves to stay well-behaved on such small length scales is a hard task. In my lecture I will outline why it is worth doing, focusing on three aspects — the enhancement of interactions between light and matter, controlling light propagation at will via manipulating Snell’s Law, and conversion of energy from the electromagnetic field to other forms such as chemical bonds or acoustic surface waves.
Via a number of examples from my research group over the years, I will endeavour to give an overview of the field and demonstrate how nanophotonics has an impact on all areas of science and technology where control over light plays an important role. I will present two application examples in more detail — a new form of high-density video holography, and achromatic focusing over the whole telecommunication window with an integrated fibre-optic lens.
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- Date: 28 Jun 2024
- Time: 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM
- All times are (UTC+10:00) Canberra
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- QinetiQ Technology and Engineering Centre (Q-TEC)
- 109 Salmon Street
- Port Melbourne , Victoria
- Australia VIC 3207
- Starts 17 June 2024 09:00 AM
- Ends 28 June 2024 06:00 PM
- All times are (UTC+10:00) Canberra
- No Admission Charge
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Prof. Stefan Maier
Nanophotonics and nanophotonic materials for highly integrated optics and optoelectronics
Biography:
Prof. Stefan Maier, Head of School in Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Prof. Stefan Maier left Germany after three years of undergraduate studies in Physics at the Technical University of Munich to enroll in the Applied Physics graduate programme at Caltech, where he obtained his M.Sc and Ph.D in the early 2000s. He then joined the University of Bath in the United Kingdom as a Lecturer, and in 2007 moved to Imperial College London as Reader. He stayed at Imperial full-time until 2018; during this time, he served as Director of Postgraduate Studies and as Head of Experimental Solid-State Physics. In 2016 he obtained the College’s endowed Lee Lucas Chair in Experimental Physics, and from 2019 to 2022 built up a new chair at the University of Munich (LMU), before joining Monash as Head of School in Physics and Astronomy. He has over the years been fortunate to mentor an amazing group of early career researchers and PhD students, 21 of those now in faculty positions all over the world. Stefan has been on the ISI Highly Cited list since 2017.