July Lecture: Solid Light: trapping photons in photonic crystals
Fri 18 Jul 08 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre A (adjacent to the School of Physics)
Presented by Dr Andrew Greentree, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Capturing a light beam and storing it in a crystal has many useful possibilities for science and technology. Trapped light can be processed using strange quantum mechanical laws before sending it on its way. We have discovered how to couple light and matter that exploits quantum coherence in photonic modules can be built using advanced nanotechnology. These modules open the way to advanced communication technologies that could take quantum coherence from laboratories to factories.
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