The Past, Present, and Future of Optical Fiber
Tue, Sep 26, 2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Hair-thin strands of glass, intrinsically transparent and strong, connect today’s world in ways that are unimaginable even 20 years ago. Over the past 50 years, glass optical fibers have advanced from passive low-loss conduits for light to active light-amplifying hosts to a myriad of nano-to-macro-structuring of core-clad combinations. John Ballato of Clemson University discusses this history as a looking glass into the future of optical fibers and its symbiosis with light to address the question: What can the next 50 years bring? Sponsored by Fibercore and Lumatec GmbH.
New Frontiers in Terahertz Technology
Wed, Oct 4, 2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT
Although unique potentials of terahertz waves for chemical identification, material characterization, biological sensing, and medical imaging have been recognized for quite a while, the relatively poor performance, higher costs, and bulky nature of current terahertz systems continue to impede their deployment in field settings. In this presentation, Professor Mona Jarrahi describes some of her team’s recent results developing fundamentally new terahertz electronic and optoelectronic components as well as imaging and spectrometry architectures to mitigate the performance limitations of existing terahertz systems. Her team’s results pave the way for compact and low-cost terahertz sources, detectors, and spectrometers that could offer numerous opportunities such as, medical imaging and diagnostics, atmospheric sensing, pharmaceutical quality control, and security screening systems.
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