Physics Colloquium
Friday, Nov. 16th, 2007,
4:00 P.M.
E300 Math/Science
Center; Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. in
Room E200
Marin Soljacic
Department of Physics
MIT
Photonic Crystals: when the only limit is imagination
Photonic Crystals are artificially created metamaterials:
they are nano-structured at scales smaller than the
wavelength
of light. As a result, light propagating inside them does
not really resolve the structure; instead, a Photonic
Crystal
"appears" to light as a uniform material, but in which laws
of optical physics are dramatically modified. This way, one
can tailor laws of physics almost at will, designing
metamaterials with optical properties dramatically different
than those of any naturally occurring material. In this
talk,
I will present a variety of novel physical phenomena
displayed
by photonic crystals, including some of the exciting
applications they enable.
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