A Sneak Peek with Light into Opaque Materials: From Imaging to Computing
Hosted By: Photonic Metamaterials Technical Group
17 November 2022 10:00 - 11:00
Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC -05:00)Light propagation in complex media, such as paint, clouds, or biological tissues, is a very challenging phenomenon, encompassing fundamental aspects in mesoscopic and statistical physics. It is also of utmost applied interest, in particular for imaging. Wavefront shaping has revolutionized the ability to image through or in complex media.
In this webinar hosted by the Photonic Metamaterials Technical Group, Sylvain Gigan will discuss how computational tools and machine learning allows to develop further wavefront shaping for imaging applications, and conversely discuss how the same complexity can be leveraged for optical computing tasks.
Subject Matter Level: Intermediate - Assumes basic knowledge of the topic
What You Will Learn:
- Basics of light scattering in complex and biological media
- Wavefront shaping and computational approach to deep imaging in biological tissues
- Basics of optical computing
Who Should Attend:
- Early career researchers interested in optics of complex media and their application
- Early career researchers interested in microscopy / imaging in tissues
- Early career researchers in optical machine learning
About the Presenter: Sylvain Gigan from Sorbonne Université
Sylvain Gigan is Professor of Physics at Sorbonne Université in Paris, and group leader in Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, at Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS, Paris). His research interests range from fundamental investigations of light propagation in complex media, biomedical imaging, computational imaging, signal processing, to quantum optics and quantum information in complex media. He is also the cofounder of a spin-off: LightOn (www.lighton.ai) aiming at performing optical computing for machine learning and Big Data.
