Graduate Student Seminar Series 2004

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CIPS/OSA Graduate Seminar Series

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Thursdays at 12 noon, RLE Haus conference room: 36-428

Fall 2009*
Sept 17	John Joannopoulos "Working at the Speed of Light"
Oct 1	Ofer Shapira Multimaterial Fiber Devices and Systems
Oct 8	OSA Annual Meeting Prep Presentations
Oct 15	Vanessa Wood Colloidal Quantum Dot LEDs using Metal Oxide Thin Films
Nov 12	Sidney Tsai Generating optical near-fields from afar via Absorbance Modulation
Nov 19	Yuan Luo Spatial-Spectral Volume Holographic Imaging System (S2-VHIS)
Dec 3	Milos Popovic Rings and On-chip Photonics

Fall 2008
Oct 2	OSA/LEOS Student Chapter Meeting
Oct 9	Tonio Buonassisi "Towards a Low-Cost, High-Performance Solar Cell: An Overview of Photovoltaics Research in Industry and Academia"
Oct 16	Aristeidis Karalis "Mid-range efficient Wireless Energy-Transfer"
Oct 30	Vladimir Bulovic "A Tutorial on Organic Light Emission"
Nov 6	Scott Bradley "Engineering J-Aggregate Cavity Exciton-Polariton Devices"
Nov 13	Alan Lee "Lens-Coupled Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers and Real-Time Imaging"
Spring 2008**
March 6	Reja Amatya "Thermal Tuning of Silicon Compatible Microring Filters"
March 13	Dominik Pudo "On the temporal Talbot effect in optical communication systems"
March 20	Obrad Scepanovic "Clinical multimodal spectroscopy for detecting vunerable athersoclerotic plaques"
March 27	Spring Break
April 10	Michael Mori "Lattice Mismatched Epitaxy of Heterostructures for Non-nitride Green Light Emitting Devices"
May 1	Tonio Buonassisi "Towards a Low-Cost, High-Performance Solar Cell: An Overview of Photovoltaics Research in Industry and Academia"
Fall 2007
November 8	Erich Ippen "Shaping electric fields on a femtosecond timescale"
November 15	Ryan Williams "Photonic Integrated Circuits for Optical Logic"
November 29	Joseph R Kovac "Intuitive, Image-based Sorting of Mammalian Cells Using OPTO-FLUidic Cell Sorting (OPTO-FLUCS)"
December 6	Alexi Arango "Planar Heterojunction Photovoltaics Consisting of a Printed Colloidal Quantum Dot Film and a Small Molecule Hole Transport Layer"
Spring 2007
February 15	Thomas Rand-Nash Characterizing Cost in Fiber-to-the-Home Networks
February 22	Jade Wang Integrated All-Optical Switches for Telecommunication Networks
March 8	Milos Popovic Taming strong-confinement photonics and building high-performance microring resonator filters
March 22	Jonathan Birge Optical pulse characterization near the single-cycle limit
April 5	Jason Orcutt Design of SiGe Photodiodes in Strict 65nm Bulk CMOS
April 19	Jorge Bravo- Abad Plasmonics: A tutorial on the fundamentals and applications of a thrilling research field
Fall 2006
October 5	Prof. Vladimir Stojanovic The Interconnect Problem
October 19	Tom Liptay Nanoparticle Optical Barcodes A Biological Application of Quantum Dots
October 26	Jianglong Chen Molecular Jet Printing for Organic Electonic and Optoelectronic Device Applications
November 9	Prof. Mehmet Fatih Yanik Femtosecond Laser Nanosurgery and Large Scale Study of Neural Regeneration and Degeneration
November 16	James Perkins Low Threshold VCSELs Recess-Integrated on Si-CMOS ICs

Spring 2006
February 16	Eric Statz THz Phonon Polaritons in Patterned Materials
February 23	Kevin Lee Rapid Prototyping of Large Core Polymer Optical Backplanes for Fluorescence Detection
March 2	Prof. Rajeev Ram Tutorial
March 9	Peter Rakich Ultrawide tuning of photonic microcavities via evanescent field perturbation
March 16	Yinthai Chen Applications of Semiconductor Nanocrystals in Sol-gel Derived Microcavities
March 23	Yaakov Tishler Critically Coupled Resonators in Vertical Geometry Using a Planar Mirror and a 5 nm Thick Absorbing Film
April 13	Sushil Kumar THz QCLs with Distributed Feedback in Metal-metal Waveguides
April 20	Fuwan Gan "High-Speed Si Electro-Optic Modulator for Electronic Photonic Integrated Circuits,"
Fall 2005
October 27	Ofer Shapira Modal Decomposition for Photonic Bandgap Fibers and Fiber-Web Detectors
November 3	Andrew Brzezinski Dynamic Reconfiguration and Routing Algorithms for IP-over-WDM Networks with Stochastic Traffic
November 10	Oliver D. Muecke HeNe/CH4 Optical Clock Employing a Carrier-envelope Phase Independent Clockwork
November 17	Peter Bremel Properties of Radiating sources in Omnicirctionally Reflecting Bragg Fibers
Spring 2005
February 10	Tauhid Zaman Integrated Optical Isolators
February 17	Minghao Qi A 3D Photonic Crystal with Designed Point Defects at Telecommunication Wavelengths
February 24	Seth Coe-Sullivan Quantum Dot Light Emitting Devices for Display Applications
March 3	Dietrich Lueerssen Nanoscale Millikelvin Thermal Imaging for Photonic Applications
March 10	SPECIAL EECS SEMINAR 3-4pm in 34-401A (Grier Room A) Tobias Kippenberg Ultra-high-Q Optical Microcavities
March 17	Erica Fuchs Consolidate? Integrate? Go East? Or Get Out? Mapping the Drivers of Optoelectronic Production Costs
April 7	Felix Grawert Towards multi-GHz integrated femtosecond laser systems
April 14	Joel Yang "Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors"
April 21	Mohsen Razavi "Quantum Communication: Why and How?"
April 28	Jon Mapel "Photosynthesis Inspired Redesign of Organic Photovoltaics"
May 5	Chi Guan "The Design of WDM Networks: an Analytical Approach".

Fall 2004
Oct 21	Wenyang Sun Rainbow Imaging with Volume Holographic Lenses
Oct 28	Sheila Tandon Large Area Broadband Saturable Bragg Reflectors for Femtosecond Pulse Generation
Nov 4	Milos Popovic & Tymon Barwicz Microring Filters in Very High Index Contrast: Design and Fabrication
Nov 18	Henry Choy Quantum Wells on Graded Buffers for Laser Diodes beyond 1.3 um on GaAs
Dec 2	Ben Williams Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers: Bridging the Terahertz Gap

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*Fall 2009 Series co-sponsored by Graduate Student Council (GSC) Funding Board

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