Colloquium

Non-contact surface mapping at a distance is of interest to diverse applications including industrial metrology, manufacturing, determination of structural deformation in the case of fire and forensics. Frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser detection and ranging (LADAR) is a promising...

Silicon Nitride lacks second order optical non-linearity making it difficult to modulate. Traditionally thermal heaters are used to tune and trim silicon nitride optical resonators, but they are limited by thermal time constants and consume DC power. In this talk I will demonstrate tuning of...

Similar  to the early days of the Wright brothers, this period in

history marks the dawn of the Age of Light Sails  for  propelling

vehicles  through outer space. The combined emergence of a devel‐

oping space economy, Cube Sat technology, metamaterial...

Filamentation 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-...

The 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...

Quantum 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...

Atomically 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...