Speaker: Dr Angeles Camacho Rosales, Coractive Inc, Canada
Title: Specialty optical fiber technologies, industrial overview
Date: 20 November 2024
Speaker: Dr Antonio Hurtado, UKRI Turing AI Fellow, Institute of Photonics, Dept of Physics, University of Strathclyde
Title: Photonic Spiking Neurons and Spiking Neural Networks for High-Speed Neuromorphic Technologies
Date: 20 November 2024
Speaker: Assoc Prof Ugur Tegin, Koç University (Turkey)
Title: Tunable and scalable optical computing with linear and nonlinear optical dynamics
Date: 18 Nov 2024
Speaker: Prof Alina Karabchevsky, Ben-Gurion Univerity (BGU)
Title: Advancing Light-Matter Interaction with Photonic Chips
Date: 24 October 2024
Speaker: Prof Massimiliano Guasoni, ORC Southhampton
Title: Optically Reconfigurable Photonics in Optical Fibers
Date: 23 October 2024
Speaker: Prof. Sahin Özdemir, Saint Louis University, USA
Title: Non-Hermiticity as a Resource for Photonics
Date: 16 October 2024
Speaker: Prof. Sahin Özdemir, Saint Louis University, USA
Title: Non-Hermiticity as a Resource for Photonics
Date: 16 October 2024
Speaker: Prof Takeshi Yasui, Institute of Post-LED Photonics (pLED), Tokushima University, Japan
Title: “Century of light” pioneered by invisible light
Date: 30 September 2024
Speaker: Dr Yu Tokizane, Institute of Post-LED Photonics (pLED), Tokushima University, Japan
Title: Wireless communication utilizing terahertz waves generated through a Kerr micro-resonator soliton comb
Date: 30 September 2024
Speaker: Dr Eiji Hase, Institute of Post-LED Photonics (pLED), Tokushima University, Japan
Title: Application of dual-comb technique for scan-less confocal imaging of amplitude and phase
Date: 30 September 2024
Speaker: Prof Pavlo Mikheenko, University of Oslo, Norway
Title: Nanosuperconductivity and nanophotonics in biological systems
Date: 19 September 2024
Speaker: Prof Julien Javaloyes, Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain)
Title: Coherence and multiplicity of frequency combs in Harmonic Mode-Locked lasers
Date: 19 July 2024
Speaker: Andrey Matsko, California Institute of Technology (CalTech), US
Title: Theory and applications of hyperparametric microwave photonic oscillators
Date: 4 June 2024
Speaker: Professor Daniel Elson, Imperial College London
Title: Spectrally-and polarization-resolved imaging in vivo-providing surgical guidance using vision and robotics
Date: 16 May 2024
Speaker: Prof Francesco Pavone, University of Florence
Title: Morpho-chemical tissue imaging
Date: 9 May 2024
Speaker: Dr Victoria Barygina, University of Florence
Title: Skin signaling: a study in controlled cell co-cultures and detection in vivo
Date: 9 May 2024
Speaker: Dr Mitchell Cox, PhD (Wits), SMIEEE, Optica Ambassador
Title: Towards long range free‐space optical communications at the Wits OC Lab
Date: 30 April 2024
Speaker: Professor Juergen Popp, Friedrich-Schiller University, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe School of Photonics, Germany; Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology Jena, a member of the Leibniz Research Alliance Leibniz Health Technology, German
Title: Raman spectroscopy for translational medicine
Date: 15 April 2024
Speaker: Dr. Pedro Parra-Rivas, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Title: From temporal to spatiotemporal dissipative solitons: a bifurcation journey in optical resonators
Date: 7 March 2024
Speaker: Dr Feng Wen, Key Lab of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Ministry of Education, School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Title: Signal processing technologies in mode division multiplexing systems
Date: 20 February 2024
Speaker: Dr. Maria Chernysheva, Leibniz Institute of Photonics Technology, Jena, Germany
Title: Trends and prospectives of ultrafast fibre laser development and applications in Leibniz Institute of Photonics Technology
Date: 19 February 2024
Speaker: Dr Kouichi Akahane, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan)
Title: Semiconductor quantum dot lasers operating in the telecom band
Date: 25 January 2024
The 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in part to John Hall and Theodor Hänsch for their development of optical frequency combs. As a simultaneously spectrally broadband and high-resolution light source, frequency comb lasers have been successfully implemented in a variety of scientific fields ranging from metrology to high resolution spectroscopy. In this talk, I will highlight the advantages of using infrared frequency comb laser spectroscopy in chemical applications ranging from chemical reaction kinetics to high-resolution spectroscopy. I will give you an overview of frequency comb lasers, the design and implementation of a spatially dispersive infrared frequency comb spectrometer,1 and results from our home-built spectrometer. I will focus on our experimental results on the infrared spectroscopy2 of diiodomethane, CH2I2, its photodissociation and subsequent reaction,3 and using the spectrometer for probing low temperature chemistry relevant to the interstellar medium.