About This Webinar
Metasurfaces provide an almost unlimited toolbox to design the wavefront of light in search of new phenomena and applications. Using matrix Fourier optics aided in the design of spatial distribution of Jones matrices to achieve polarization sensitive imaging, a new type of holography with control of polarization in the far-field and Mueller matrix imaging. Polarization metaoptics has led to an error-free biometric authentication system for smartphones. Federico Capasso will present recent developments in large-area metalenses for astrophysics as well as high-efficiency broadband metalenses. He will conclude with recent work on bilayer freestanding metasurfaces and the new functionalities that they enable.
Who should attend:
Optics engineers, designers, researchers and educators, and anyone who is interested in learning about new developments in lens technology and how they could impact future products and applications.
About the presenter:
Federico Capasso, Ph.D., holds a Doctor of Physics degree from the University of Roma, La Sapienza. Capasso is the Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University, which he joined in 2003 after 27 years at Bell Labs, the premier industrial laboratory, where his career advanced from postdoctoral fellow to vice president for physical research. His contributions span a broad range of topics from science to applications, in the areas of optics, artificial designer materials, and nanotechnology, including the invention of the quantum cascade laser metaoptics and in particular flat lenses. He is a cofounder and board member of Metalenz, which commercializes flat lenses for the consumer electronics market, and of EOS Photonics, now part of Pendar, focused on chemical sensing with quantum cascade lasers.
Federico is a 2023 Citation laureate for physics of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), which recognizes an exceptional citation record within the Web of Science. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Inventors, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Accademia dei Lincei. His many awards include the Balzan Prize, the King Faisal Prize for Science, the Ives Medal of Optica, the Robert Wood Prize of Optica, the IEEE Edison Medal, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award, the Enrico Fermi Prize, the Arthur Schalow Prize of the American Physical Society, and the Material Research Society Medal. He holds honorary doctorates from Lund University, Diderot University, the University of Bologna, and University of Roma, Tor Vergata. He is a fellow of Optica, IEEE, SPIE, APS and AAAS.