Hello, Please find below notice of a talk which may be of interest, to take place Thursday, June 16 at 2:00pm in Pierce 209. Best, Clare -- Clare Ploucha Faculty Assistant to Professors Lukin & Greiner and their labs Department of Physics 17 Oxford St., Lyman 324A Cambridge, MA 02138 P. (617) 496-2544 Special Seminar, Thursday, June 16 at 2:00 p.m. in Pierce 209 "Hybrid Optical Fibers: a new base for photonic devices in fiber form" Professor Markus A. Schmidt Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Fiber Sensors Research Group, and Otto Schott Institute of Material Research, Jena, Germany Abstract Hybrid optical fibers are fiber-type waveguides including multimaterial large-aspect ratio nano- and microstructures. Due to their unique properties these fibers have found applications in various fields such as coherent light generation or biophotonics. In this talk I will review our latest results on fiber-based plasmonics including spiraling surface plasmon modes, fiber-based near-field probes and nanoparticle enhanced fibers. I will also talk about detection of nanoobjects using nanobore fibers and about our recent developments in the field of hollow-core optical fibers with the focus on anti-resonant guidance in the UV. References 1. M.A. Schmidt, A. Argyros, and F. Sorin, Hybrid Optical Fibers - An Innovative Platform for In-Fiber Photonic Devices. Advanced Optical Materials 4, 13 (2016). 2. R. Spittel, et al., Curvature-induced geometric momenta: the origin of waveguide dispersion of surface plasmons on metallic wires. Optics Express 23, 12174-12188 (2015). 3. A. Hartung, et al., Low-loss single-mode guidance in large-core antiresonant hollow-core fibers. Optics Letters 40, 3432-3435 (2015). 4. S. Faez, et al., Fast, Label-Free Tracking of Single Viruses and Weakly Scattering Nanoparticles in a Nanofluidic Optical Fiber. ACS Nano 9, 12349-12357 (2015). CV Markus A. Schmidt owns a professorship for Fiber Optics at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and is head of the research group Fiber Sensors at the Leibniz Institute for Photonic Technologies (IPHT). His main research topic is combining fibers and nanophotonics with applications in areas such as biophotonics, plasmonics or nonlinear optics.