Plasmon-empowered nanophotonics
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Plasmon-empowered nanophotonics
Wed, 26/04/2017 - 14:30 to 15:30
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Speaker:
Prof. Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Affiliation:
Centre for Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark
Synopsis:
Interaction of light with nanostructured materials gives rise to nanostructured optical waves, i.e., to electromagnetic fields varying strongly at the nanoscale, opening exciting possibilities for surpassing the classical diffraction limit and molding the flow of light at length scales far below the optical wavelength. Using carefully designed nanostructures light can be manipulated in fascinating new ways that are impossible to achieve with natural materials and in conventional geometries. Controlling light at the nanoscale led to unveiling new physical phenomena and empowered many applications, including integrated optical circuitry, optical processing, super-resolution microscopy, quantum information technologies, bio- and medical sensing. In this talk, I concentrate on arguably the most important research directions within optics and photonics – optical communication and information technologies, and follow recent developments in exploiting metallic nanostructures for reaching ultimate miniaturization of optical circuitry and empowering quantum optics.
Biography:
Sergey Bozhevolnyi received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1978 and 1981, respectively, and the Dr.Scient. degree from Århus University, Denmark, in 1998. Since 2003, he has been a Professor at Aalborg University (Denmark) changing in 2008 to the University of Southern Denmark, where he now leads the Centre SDU Nano Optics. During 2001–2004, he was also the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Micro Managed Photons A/S set up to commercialize plasmonic waveguides. In 2016, he has been a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at King’s College London. Apart from numerous (> 400) research publications, he edited two books: “Plasmonic Nano Guides and Circuits” and “Quantum Plasmonics” and co-organized two conferences: “Quantum Plasmonics” in 2015 and “Quantum Nanophotonics” in 2017. His current research interests are within linear and nonlinear nano-optics, being centered at plasmonics, including nanophotonic components, metasurfaces and quantum plasmonics. In 2013, he has been awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant “Plasmon-based Functional and Quantum Nanophotonics (PLAQNAP)”. He is a Fellow of OSA and a Chair of Technical Science at the Danish Institute of Advanced Study (D-IAS).
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