JILA Science Seminar: VF Trey Porto talk on : "Things you may not know about BEAM SPLITTERS"
- When
- Friday, November 6, 20264:00 PM – 5:00 PM MSTAdd to calendarGoogle Calendar
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- JILA X3171900 Colorado Avenue, Boulder, CO 80309Open in Maps
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About
Title:Things you may not know about BEAM SPLITTERS
Speaker: Trey Porto/JQI, NIST
Event Details / Abstract:This presentation was inspired by a paper I stumbled upon a few years ago, titled "Programming balanced optical beam splitters in white paint", which contained several concepts I hadn't known, and some interesting ideas that I think could be extremely useful in numerous optical applications. The talk starts with a review of simple beam splitters and the fundamental constraints that lead to the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect. Then I will discuss the results of several papers that developed programmable optical beam splitters in random scattering environments and demonstrated their functionality. Along the way I will note some counter-intuitive (at leas to me) observations about the fundamental behavior of beam splitters.