SCIENCE AT THE EDGE SEMINAR

Friday, 14 January 2011 at 11:30am

Room 1400 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Bldg.

Refreshments at 11:15


Speaker: Mark Stockman
         Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University

Title:   Nanoplasmonics: Citius, Minimius, Fortius!

Abstract:

Nanoplasmonics deals with collective electron dynamics on the surface of metal
nanostructures, which arises due to excitations called surface plasmons. The
surface plasmons localize and concentrate optical energy in nanoscopic regions
creating highly enhanced local optical fields. They undergo ultrafast dynamics
with timescales as short as a few hundred attoseconds. From the latest
developments and original work in nanoplasmonics, we will consider adiabatic
nanofocusing, nanolenses, SPASER (quantum nanoscale optical generator and
ultrafast amplifier) and SPIDER (surface-plasmon-induced drag-effect
rectification). Time permitting, we may present also one of the following
recent developments: attosecond nanoplasmonic field microscope or ultrafast
coherent control on the nanoscale.