Conveners
W1-9 Nonlinear Optics and High Field Physics (DAMOPC) / Optique non linéaire et physique en champs intenses (DPAMPC)
- Tsuneyuki Ozaki (INRS-EMT)
Prof.
Jean-Michel Ménard
(University of Ottawa, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light)
15/06/2016, 08:30
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
Second-order solid-state nonlinear crystals are used for a wide variety of parametric frequency-conversion processes including the generation of second harmonic, degenerate entangled photon pairs and phase-locked terahertz transients. These crystals can have a high χ$^{(2)}$ coefficient enabling efficient nonlinear effects, but their spectral range of operation is limited because of their...
Jarno Nicolaas van der Kolk
(University of Ottawa)
15/06/2016, 09:00
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Oral (Student, Not in Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), pas dans la compétition)
Collagen fibrils can be found in a wide array of biological tissues such as bones, tendons, arteries, cornea. They give most of the biological tissues its mechanical properties and as such are an important area of research. Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) is a non-linear optical process that is particularly strong in collagen fibrils due to their unique chiral molecular structure, enabling...
Xinru Cheng
(University of Ottawa)
15/06/2016, 09:15
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Due to its inherent stability and compactness, integrated photonics can allow for experimental complexity not currently achievable with bulk optics. This opens up the possibility for large-scale quantum technological applications, such as quantum communication networks and quantum information processing. Most demonstrations so far have featured the on-chip manipulation of photon states using a...
Christopher DiLoreto
(University of Windsor)
15/06/2016, 09:30
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
The use of nanoscale structures to enhance local electric fields has seen much recent use in improving the effectiveness of numerous, optically-driven systems. As such, we investigate how these nanoscale enhancements can be used to improve the operation of quantum control systems. These nanoscale systems have various different effects on quantum systems, but in most cases are able to...
Mr
Frédéric Bouchard
(University of Ottawa)
15/06/2016, 09:45
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Optimal quantum cloning machines are realized in linear optical systems by means of the symmetrization method, a method involving the two-photon interference effect at a beam splitter. Optimal quantum cloning has been realized with two-dimensional quantum states, qubits, and four-dimensional quantum system comprised of polarization and orbital angular momentum qubits. Nonetheless, no...
Dr
Antonino Calà Lesina
(University of Ottawa, Department of Physics)
15/06/2016, 10:00
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
Plasmonic nanostructures have been extensively investigated in recent years for their ability to concentrate light to sub-wavelength scales. Plasmonics allows us to overcome the diffraction limit and confine an intense field to spatial dimensions that are not achievable with a laser or dielectrics, which are typically used in nonlinear optics. The strong fields created by arrays of...
Zhengyan Li
(JASLab, National Research Council and University of Ottawa)
15/06/2016, 10:15
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
High harmonic generation is a non-perturbative nonlinear optical process [1], quite different from conventional perturbative nonlinear optics [2]. These two regimes are bridged by the nonlinear wave mixing process in high harmonic generation [3], in which a harmonic extreme ultraviolet (XUV) photon with frequency Ω is a combination of n1 driving photons with frequency ω1 and n2 perturbing...
