[Physstaff] Colloquium: Wed 9/12/2015 David L. Andrews (UEA) "New Frontiers in Photonics – Is there more to the photon than meets the eye?"

[Daniel Oi]

The last colloquium of the semester is next week and will be given by Prof David Andrews. As usual, tea/coffee will be served afterwards in the Common Room.

Title: New Frontiers in Photonics – Is there more to the photon than meets the eye?
Speaker: Prof David L. Andrews, Chemical Physics, University of East Anglie
Venue: John Anderson JA3.14
Time/Date: 3pm Wednesday 9th December 2015

Abstract:
How much do we really know about the nature of a photon?  At a time when whole industries are being built on ‘photonics’, recent research makes the paradoxical nature of the photon more than ever evident.  Numerous developments in the field of optical vortices, plasmonics and nonlinear optics hinge on exotic properties of the wave-front and phase structures of light, down to the level of the photon itself.  As a result we are discovering new fundamental principles, and finding new applications ranging including nanomanipulation, quantum information and all-optical switching.  This colloquium highlights some of the recent discoveries, and puzzles that now need to be solved.

David Andrews is Professor of Chemical Physics at the University of East Anglia, where his group conducts research on fundamental photonics, optomechanical forces, optical vortices, nonlinear optics, energy harvesting and molecular energy transport.  He has a dozen books and over 300 research papers to his name.  David Andrews is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Optical Society of America, and SPIE – the international optics and photonics society, of which he is a Director.

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Dr Daniel K. L. Oi
Lecturer, Quantum Information
Computational Nonlinear & Quantum Optics
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