MULTIMODE PHOTONICS: FROM OPTICAL FIBRES TO ON-CHIP WAVEGUIDES
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MULTIMODE PHOTONICS: FROM OPTICAL FIBRES TO ON-CHIP WAVEGUIDES
Wed, 17/10/2018 - 14:30
Location:
Speaker:
M Guasoni
Affiliation:
University of Southampton
Synopsis:
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in multimode fibres. The ability to control the propagation and interaction of different modes in these fibres opens the way to novel applications in several areas, from optical communications, to astronomy, to high-power lasers, just to name a few. This seminar will review the main challenges and advantages of the multimode platform with respect to the conventional single-mode technology. Moreover, it will discuss some recent ideas and exciting perspectives related to the interaction between several modes in on-chip waveguides, where the study of the multimode dynamics is still on its infancy.
Biography:
Massimiliano Guasoni is currently researcher at the Optoelectronics Research Centre of the University of Southampton, UK. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Brescia, Italy. In 2016 he has been Erasmus-Mundus fellow at the Australian National University. Afterwards, he has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual fellowship. Recently, he has been awarded a ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council. His research interests include theoretical and computational photonics, all-optical signal processing, plasmonics and nonlinear optics.