Event calendar file
Department of Nuclear and Atomic Physics Seminars
Exploring the quantum at the nanoscale
by Dr. Mario Agio (European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Florence, Italy)
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
from
to
(Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( Guest House Seminar Room )
at Colaba Campus ( Guest House Seminar Room )
| Description |
Optical nanoscopy is recognized as a powerful tool for investigating physico-chemical as well as biological processes in nanomaterials, whereby subwavelength spatial resolution is combined with a variety of spectroscopic techniques. The past decades have witnessed the development of several attempts in this regard, which have however suffered from the mismatch between light and nanoscale matter. The dramatic advances of nanotechnology experienced in recent years have enabled us to fabricate optical nanostructures that greatly improve the conversion of localized electromagnetic energy into radiation and vice versa, thus enabling the implementation of ultrafast and nonlinear techniques, coherent control and multidimensional correlation spectroscopy at the nanoscale We are particularly interested in interrogating single quantum systems and in exploring quantum phenomena that occur at the subwavelength scale. Although we primarily address fundamental questions related to light, matter and their interaction, our efforts may also make their way into practical devices, such as a new class of light-sources, sensors and functional materials. References: M. Agio, “Molecular scattering and fluorescence in strongly confined optical fields,” Habilitationsschrift ETH Zurich, http://dx.doi.org/10.3929/ethz-a-007049705, (2012) M. Agio, “Optical antennas as nanoscale resonators,” Nanoscale 4, 692 (2012) |
| Organised by | Dr. Vaibhav Prabhudesai |
