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Synthetic Optical Materials for linear and nonlinear photonic applications Andrea Di Falco School of Physics and Astronomy University of St Andrews Synthetic Optics group Email: [email protected] Web: synthopt.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk The current advances in photonics have given us ways to control and manipulate light virtually at will. We have learnt how to bend it, slow it down and even stop it, confine it in dimensions smaller that its wavelength and ultimately determine its path. This progress has been generated by enabling technologies, like that of photonic crystals and metamaterials, which allow the design of the properties of matter at the nanoscale. In this talk I will present the portfolio of techniques developed at the University of St Andrews to fabricate synthetic optical materials, like chaotic broadband resonators, flexible metamaterials and electron beam induced deposition of plasmonic nano- features, and discuss their potential applications.
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Synthetic Optical Materials for linear and nonlinear photonic applications
Andrea Di Falco
School of Physics and Astronomy University of St Andrews
Synthetic Optics group
Email: [email protected] Web: synthopt.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
The current advances in photonics have given us ways to control and manipulate light virtually at will. We have learnt how to bend it, slow it down and even stop it, confine it in dimensions smaller that its wavelength and ultimately determine its path. This progress has been generated by enabling technologies, like that of photonic crystals and metamaterials, which allow the design of the properties of matter at the nanoscale. In this talk I will present the portfolio of techniques developed at the University of St Andrews to fabricate synthetic optical materials, like chaotic broadband resonators, flexible metamaterials and electron beam induced deposition of plasmonic nano-features, and discuss their potential applications.
