Highlights of the Hot Topics in Optics

Following last semester's special video seminar on nanophotonics, I'm going to play the second part of the documentary DVD, which features two presentations on the recent development on some of the hottest topics in optics. These presentations were given by the topical group chairs of the Optical Society of America in last year's Frontier in Optics Conference. The first presentation reviews a number of new results in the area of quantum electronics, while the second focuses on two recent experiments on human vision and color. This seminar is intended to give students with all background an opportunity to peek into the cutting-edge research in the field of optical sciences. Again, I will give a brief tutorial on some of the subjects covered in the presentations, including attosecond optics, optical cloaking and quantum communications.

Lingze Duan

UAHuntsville