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16 September 2016
OSA Incubator on Subwavelength Photonics
OSA Incubator on Subwavelength Photonics
WASHINGTON — The Optical Society (OSA) will host an Incubator meeting on “Subwavelength Photonics,” on Thursday, 22 September and Friday, 23 September 2016 at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC, USA. This Incubator will focus on the controlling of light flow in optical materials structured on a subwavelength scale. Many accomplishments have been made in this exciting field, from the subwavelength index engineering in integrated optics to high-index-contrast gratings. The goal is to establish new directions for the development of these emerging photonics structures and search for new applications that would be enabled by these structures.
“Our goal with this OSA Incubator is to evaluate different solutions of controlling flow of light in optical materials structured at subwavelength scale,” stated Pavel Cheben, Incubator host and Senior Research Officer, National Research Council (NRC), Canada. “Indeed, much progress has been made in this area in recent years, including metamaterials, photonic crystals, nanoplasmonics and all-dielectric nanostructures, and we hope that our meeting will help unlock exciting new opportunities that future holds in this fast progressing field.”
WHAT: Incubator on Subwavelength Photonics
WHEN: Thursday, 22 September and Friday, 23 September 2016
TIME: 8:00 am on Thursday, 22 September 2016
HOSTED BY: Pavel Cheben, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
Inigo Molina Fernandez, University of Malaga, Spain
David Smith, Duke University, Durham, United States
Weidong Zhou, University of Texas at Arlington, United States
Featured Topics: Subwavelength structures for photonics and integrated optics, high-index-contrast gratings and metastructures, resonant and holographic optical metasurfaces, form birefringent photonic structures and chiral media, advanced lithography techniques for fabrication of photonics devices with subwavelength nanostructures
Keynote Speakers:
- Philip Russell, OSA Past President, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany, Photonic Crystal Waveguides, Bloch Waves and Subwavelength Photonics
- Siegfried Janz, National Research Council, Canada, Subwavelength Silicon Photonics
- David R. Smith, Duke University, USA, Photonic Metamaterials
- Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue University, USA, Subwavelength Plasmonic Structures
For more information about this incubator or other incubators in this series visit the OSA Incubator Meetings page.
Interested in attending? There are a limited number of spaces available to this event, for interested individuals and members of the press, please send a brief letter of interest expressing your intent to the Media Relations team at MediaRelations@osa.org.
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