HQI Special Seminar
Wednesday, November 20
12 PM, Jefferson 250
Lunch will be served
Prof. Vahid Sandoghdar, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Efficiency in the Interaction of Light and Matter: From Nano-quantum Optics to
Nanobiophotonics
Light-matter interaction at the nanometer scale lies at the heart of elementary optical
processes such as absorption, emission or scattering. Over the past two decades, we have
realized a series of experiments to investigate the interaction of single photons, single
molecules and single nanoparticles. In this presentation, I will report on recent studies,
where we reach unity efficiency in the coupling of single photons to single molecules and
describe our efforts to exploit this for the realization of polaritonic states involving a
controlled number of molecules and photons. Furthermore, I will show how the underlying
mechanisms that play a central role in quantum optics, help image and track single
biological nanoparticles such as viruses and small proteins with high spatial and temporal
resolutions.
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Clare Ploucha
Director of Programs
Harvard Quantum Initiative
18 Hammond Street, Palfrey 105
Cambridge, MA 02138
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