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Colloquium
The OSC Colloquium series is a dynamic forum for the interchange of ideas, techniques and research in all areas of optics, wherein academic scholars and industry leaders lead discussions about groundbreaking research and open the floor to questions and comments. Students, faculty members, members of the optics community and the public are all invited to attend.
Colloquium is held on Thursday in Meinel 307 each week during the academic year.
- Colloquium Lecture Series Coordinator: Kristin Stone
Fall 2019 & Spring 2020 Lectures
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Thursday, December 12, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
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Thursday, December 5, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Jeffrey Shapiro Topic: My 40+ Years in Quantum Optical Communication Host: Saikat Guha Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveI have spent 40+ years working on a variety of topics in quantum opticalcommunication. In this talk, I will present a semi-chronological, incomplete reviewof how that field has progressed, focusing on some of my group’s contributions. Theresults to be...Thursday, November 28, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmThursday, November 21, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Grover Swartzlander Topic: Host: Rolf Binder Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveThursday, November 14, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Guido Mueller Topic: LISA: The Gravitational Wave Observatory in Space Host:Felipe Guzman Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable us to listen to the low frequency/high mass gravitational wave band complementing the high frequency/low mass symphony currently received by LIGO and VIRGO. LISA will measure distance changes at the pm-level between free falling test...
Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Sergei Tochitsky Topic: Long-Wave Infrared Filamentation in Air: Lasers and High-Field Phenomena Host: Jerry Moloney Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveFilamentation of a high-power laser beam in air opens possibility of the diffraction-compensated propagation of a laser beam over long distances and as such is being considered for remote stand-off detection, free-space communications, lightning control, and long-...
Thursday, October 31, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Dr. Alejandro Manjavacas Topic: Collective Effects on Periodic Arrays of Nanostructures Host: Linran Fan Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archivePeriodic arrays are an exceptionally interesting arrangement for metallic nanostructures due to their ability to support strong collective lattice resonances arising from the coherent multiple scattering enabled by the array periodicity. Thanks to these exceptional properties, periodic...
Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Dr. Jens Biegert Title: Attosecond x-rays for ultrafast condensed phase physics Host: Jerry Moloney Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveThe development of intense mid-IR sources led to the generation of isolated attosecond pulses in the soft X-ray water window across the oxygen edge at 543 eV. These table top sources of coherent x-rays are powerful new tools that combine ultrafast temporal resolution with the soft X-ray’s...
Thursday, October 17, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Dr. Anthony Yee Title: SPIDER: a chip-scale interferometric imaging sensor Host: Jonathan Ellis Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveThe Advanced Technology Center (ATC) is a small R&D lab in Palo Alto, California within Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company which aims to solve challenging engineering & integration problems and provide next generation capabilities to its defense, aerospace and civilian customers. We...
Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Professor Volker Sorger Topic: Heterogeneous Photonics for Next-generation Optoelectronics and Analog Processors Host: Eric Clark Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archivePhotonic technologies are at the forefront of the ongoing 4th industrial revolution of digitalizationsupporting applications such as virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, and electronic warfare. Thedevelopment of integrated photonics in recent years enabled functional...Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Dr. David Tsu Topic:The Study of Light Scattering from its beginnings in Astronomy, to understanding Haze in polymers, to helping Cosmology? Host: Masud Mansuripur Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveBefore discussing scattering, I will briefly start off talking about the meaning of Spectroscopy and what a Spectroscopist does. For some reason, the subject of light scattering in not taught in any meaningful way, especially at the Undergraduate level. But without such research, our knowledge...
Thursday, September 26, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Quntao Zhuang Topic: Quantum information with quantum optics: from sensing, communication to scrambling Host: Saikat Guha Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveQuantum information science has been an exciting area of research, with many different platforms. In this talk, I am going to introduce quantum information science with a focus on quantum optical systems, including two main subjects---quantum...
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmThursday, September 12, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: John Schaibley Topic: Interlayer Excitons and Nonlinear Plasmonics in 2D Material Heterostructures Host: Rolf Binder Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveAtomically thin semiconductors, such as monolayer MoSe2 and WSe2, have emerged as exciting optoelectronic materials, with novel spin-valley electronic physics and excitons that are strongly bound at room temperature. It has recently been shown that these materials can form...
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Prof. Cun-Zheng Ning Topic: Semiconductor Nanolasers: From Plasmonics to 2D Monolayer Materials Host: Rolf Binder Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveMiniaturization has been a constant trend for semiconductor-based technologies such as microelectronics and photonics. One of the most important photonic components in many applications is semiconductor lasers, whose miniaturization is both important and challenging, especially in the future...
Thursday, August 29, 2019 - 3:30pm - 5:00pm
