2005 Corporate Affiliates Program (CAP) Meeting
May 5, 2005
Light Controlling Light: All-Optical Techniques in Photonic Crystals
12:00 a.m. Friend Center Auditorium F101
Professor Jason Fleischer
Abstract: Photonic crystals are periodic structures that guide and manipulate light in the same way that atomic crystals determine the motion of electrons. However, fabrication of photonic crystals is difficult, and, until recently, light behavior in them has been linear (that is, passively routed by the imposed structure). This latter restriction means that light can act as the signal carrier but cannot alter its own dynamics or directly influence other light signals.
In this talk, I will review our efforts to create photonic structures using holography and our studies of nonlinear light propagation, in which the behavior of the signal, and its interactions, depends on its intensity. These all-optical methods allow creative engineering design without material fabrication and enable the observation of many phenomena that are universal in science but are difficult to see in other fields.
Professor Jason Fleischer - obtained his B.A. from the University of Chicago in 1993 and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1999. Following this, he was a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technion-Israel Institute for Technology and served as a consultant for the College of Optics and Photonics/CREOL at the University of Central Florida. Industrial experience includes Prediction Sciences (a bioinformatics company for which he still consults), Signagenics (a video processing company), and a year at Lockheed Martin. He has been at Princeton since September 1, 2004. His research interests include nonlinear optics and photonics, soliton dynamics, and statistical and condensed matter physics. |