Episode Synopsis "ECE 616 Student Presentation: Ultrafast Non-linear Plasmonics"

Plasmonics has gained significant attention in the recent days owing to its capability of providing sub-wavelength confinement of light. As a consequence of sub-wavelength confinement of electric field, the field intensity issignificantly enhanced. High field intensity achieved by plasmonics, together with high intensity provided by ultrafast pulse excitation techniques,provide an efficient way to harness the non-linearity of many materials. Non-linear characteristics of plasmonic devices can enable important applications such as plasmonic switches. Owing to the technological importance of these applications, active/non-linear plasmonics is gaining greater attention in the past few years. This review focuses on a few recent reports where plasmonic structures have been used to demonstrate various effects such as efficient four-wave mixing, ultrafast switching and magneto-plasmonic microinterferometry.

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• ECE 616 Lecture 1: Introduction to Ultrafast Optics
• ECE 616 Lecture 2: Laser Basics
• ECE 616 Lecture 3: Introduction to Short Pulse Generation via Mode-Locking
• ECE 616 Lecture 4: Active Mode-Locking: Time Domain Treatment
• ECE 616 Lecture 5: Active Mode-Locking: Frequency Domain Treatment
• ECE 616 Lecture 6a: Passive Mode-Locking with Saturable Absorbers I
• ECE 616 Lecture 10: Intensity Autocorrelation I
• ECE 616 Lecture 11: Intensity Autocorrelation II
• ECE 616 Lecture 16: Dispersion
• ECE 616 Lecture 6b: Passive Mode-locking with Saturable Absorbers II
• ECE 616 Lecture 7: Solid-State Laser Mode-Locking Using the Optical Kerr Effect
• ECE 616 Lecture 8: Solid-State Laser Mode-Locking Including Phase Effects
• ECE 616 Lecture 9: Ultrashort Pulse Measurement: Introduction and Electric Field Autocorrelation
• ECE 616 Lecture 12: Electric Field Cross-Correlation and Spectral Interferometry
• ECE 616 Lecture 13: Chirped Pulses and Measurement in the Time-Frequency Domain
• ECE 616 Lecture 21: Self-phase-modulation
• ECE 616 Lecture 23a: High Order Propagation Effects - Delayed Nonlinear Index and Raman Scattering
• ECE 616 Lecture 23b: High Order Propagation Effects - Delayed Nonlinear Index and Raman Scattering
• ECE 616 Lecture 14: Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG)
• ECE 616 Lecture 15: Characterization of Noise and Jitter
• ECE 616 Lecture 17: Temporal Dispersion Based on Angular Dispersion
• ECE 616 Lecture 18: Dispersion with Grating and Prism Sequences
• ECE 616 Lecture 19: Frequency Dependent Storage Time
• ECE 616 Lecture 20: Propagation Equation for Nonlinear Refractive Index Media
• ECE 616 Lecture 27: Fourier Transform Pulse Shaping
• ECE 616 Lecture 29: Ultrafast Spectroscopy
• ECE 616 Lecture 30: Coherent Polarization Effects and Dephasing
• ECE 616 Lecture 28: Space-time Duality and Temporal Imaging
• ECE 616 Lecture 22: Pulse Compression and Solitons
• ECE 616 Lecture 24: Soliton Effects in Mode-Locked Lasers with Fast Self-Amplitude-Modulation
• ECE 616 Lecture 25: Mode-Locked Frequency Combs
• ECE 616 Lecture 26: Ultrashort Pulse Amplification
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