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Complex optical components based on geometric phase
28 April 2022
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC - 05:00)
Many areas in Photonics demand the design and construction of complex optical systems that require overcoming challenges in control, efficiency, and miniaturization, which are not possible to achieve with the usual diffractive and refractive elements. Recently, a promising type of optics has emerged that exploits the geometric phase (GP) shift also known as Pancharatnam–Berry phase to modify wavefronts or shaping beams by introducing spatially varying anisotropy. GP promises a new generation of electro-optical elements with arbitrary phase profiles that potentially can overcome those challenges and be incorporated into a wide variety of modern optical systems to have improvements in a wide range of applications.
About Our Speaker: Veronica Vicuña Hernandez, University of Naples Federico II
Dr. Verónica Vicuña Hernández, an early career member of OPTICA, is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics of the University of Naples Federico II in Italy. Verónica holds a PhD in Materials Sciences and Engineering, an MSc, and a BSc in Physics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico. She had worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Quantum Engineering of Light at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences (2017-2019). Her research interests span a broad range of areas including Singular Optics, Quantum Optics, and the development of novel optical devices based on geometric phase.