Am 30. Mai 2024 hält Dr. Falk Eilenberger vom Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Optik und Feinmechanik IOF, Jena & Institut für Angewandte Physik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena einen Gastvortrag zum Thema  "Wafer Scale Nanophotonic Components: hunting CO2 and Black Holes".

Der Vortrag findet um 09:00 Uhr im Ernst-Abbe-Zentrum Raum 1337/1338 statt.

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Nanophotonic components, also known under their colloquial name of metasurfaces,
are optical components which draw their functionality from subwavelength
nanostructures. As such they can complement classical optical components, such as
gratings or lenses, but can also implement functions that cannot be created otherwise.
In this talk I shall highlight our quest to turn this vision into real-world solutions with
light. I shall touch base with nanofabrication techniques, which can be used to fabricate bespoke metasurfaces on the waferscale and introduce a few high profile projects, which use those to great effect. Among them GAIA, a part-time hunter of black holes and a CO2m a full fledged surveyor for green house gases. I shall also highlight a few concepts, which have not yet found applications, but which highlight the application potential.