Panelist: Deutsch

Information Acquisition, Processing, and Display

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Application of range migration algorithms to imaging with a dynamic metasurface antenna
    • Microwave radiation is used to form images of buried objects, which is crucial in security screening and medical settings. But traditionally, the hardware needed for such imaging is cumbersome, including large arrays of...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 33(10) 2082-2092 (2016) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Light–Matter Interactions

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Ultrafast oscilloscope based on laser-triggered field emitters
    • One of the most common electronic instruments in an undergraduate physics lab is an oscilloscope, which measures voltage as a function of time. The fastest oscillations we can measure with an oscilloscope depend on its...
    • Opt. Lett. 40(2) 260-263 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Plasmonic nano-ring arrays through patterning gold nanoparticles into interferograms
    • The properties of most simple materials are independent of size. Many lumps of clay combined into one lump are still malleable, many drops of water together still boil at 100° C, and many chocolate chip cookies are...
    • Opt. Express 21(13) 15314-15322 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Linewidth enhancement in spasers and plasmonic nanolasers
    • What’s the difference between a laser and an incandescent lightbulb? From an optical physicist’s point of view, it’s about a micron. White light from a lightbulb is made up of colors from all across the visible...
    • Opt. Express 21(2) 2147-2153 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Broadband mid-infrared frequency upconversion and spectroscopy with an aperiodically poled LiNbO3 waveguide
    • What makes tomatoes look red or green? When sunlight, composed of all of the visible colors, hits carotenoids in a ripe tomato, the red light is picked out and scattered toward our eyes. By contrast, chlorophyll in...
    • Opt. Lett. 37(20) 4332-4334 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Electron acceleration driven by ultrashort and nonparaxial radially polarized laser pulses
    • Undergraduate physics students are very good at solving about five problems in electromagnetics. Why so few? After all, everything in classical optics and electronics can be solved exactly using Maxwell’s equations. The...
    • Opt. Lett. 37(13) 2442-2444 (2012) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Large-area plasmonic hot-spot arrays: sub-2 nm interparticle separations with plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition of Ag on periodic arrays of Si nanopillars
    • Michelangelo carved his statue of David using top-down fabrication, removing material from a chunk of marble until the desired form emerged. But the figures in his ceiling fresco at the Sistine Chapel required bottom-up...
    • Opt. Express 19(27) 26056-26064 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Temperature measurement and stabilization in a birefringent whispering gallery mode resonator
    • How precisely can temperature be measured? With patience and excellent eyesight, maybe you could read a mercury thermometer to a 10th of a degree, or with a good camera and a computer, maybe to a...
    • Opt. Express 19(15) 14495-14501 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Bloch surface waves in ultrathin waveguides: near-field investigation of mode polarization and propagation
    • Plato is often credited with posing the first optical inverse problem in The Republic: given a shadow on the wall, can we determine the object that caused it? While it was meant as a metaphor for the omnipresence (and...
    • J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27(8) 1617-1625 (2010) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optical Design and Instrumentation

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Ultrafast oscilloscope based on laser-triggered field emitters
    • One of the most common electronic instruments in an undergraduate physics lab is an oscilloscope, which measures voltage as a function of time. The fastest oscillations we can measure with an oscilloscope depend on its...
    • Opt. Lett. 40(2) 260-263 (2015) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Direct measurement of the Wigner time delay for the scattering of light by a single atom
    • A single photon traveling through space follows a straight line unless it runs into something, behaving more or less like a billiard ball in Newtonian physics. Much of the optical behavior that we are used to seeing on...
    • Opt. Lett. 38(11) 1963-1965 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Temperature measurement and stabilization in a birefringent whispering gallery mode resonator
    • How precisely can temperature be measured? With patience and excellent eyesight, maybe you could read a mercury thermometer to a 10th of a degree, or with a good camera and a computer, maybe to a...
    • Opt. Express 19(15) 14495-14501 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

Optoelectronics

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Linewidth enhancement in spasers and plasmonic nanolasers
    • What’s the difference between a laser and an incandescent lightbulb? From an optical physicist’s point of view, it’s about a micron. White light from a lightbulb is made up of colors from all across the visible...
    • Opt. Express 21(2) 2147-2153 (2013) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

  • Spotlight Summary by Brad Deutsch

    • Design of nanostructured plasmonic back contacts for thin-film silicon solar cells
    • "You can have it cheap, or you can have it work." That could be the motto of the solar cell industry right now. Inside every solar cell is a small amount of semiconductor material whose job it is to convert light...
    • Opt. Express 19(S6) A1219-A1230 (2011) View: Abstract | HTML | PDF

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