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Photonics Initiative Seminar: Ventsislav K. Valev
March 25, 2026 @ 11:00 am
Speaker: Ventsislav K. Valev Title: Polarization-Resolved Nonlinear Optical Activity in Scattering Abstract: Nonlinear optical activity in scattered light, first predicted in 1979, has recently become experimentally accessible. The original theory encompassed both elastic scattering and its inelastic counterpart, hyper-Raman. In elastic scattering, depending on the ratio between particle size and wavelength, light scattering is typically classified Read More
Photonics Initiative Seminar: Rainer Hillenbrand
May 21, 2026 @ 10:00 am
Dr. Hari Padma, Case Western Reserve University Decoding light-driven quantum materials Abstract: Driving quantum materials with intense optical pulses offers a powerful means to control their behavior, leading to remarkable emergent phenomena such as photoinduced magnetic, ferroelectric, and superconducting phases. However, such phenomena are usually transient, limited to the sub-picosecond duration of the optical pulse Read More