Time: 2 March 2023, 9 a.m.
Sites: Multi-function Hall 502, New Optoelectronics Building, Shanghai Institute of Technology (East side of the building)
Title：Confinement and manipulation of photons using microcavities have triggered intense research interest in both fundamental and applied photonics for more than one decade. Prominent examples are ultrahigh-Q whispering gallery microcavities which confine photons by means of continuous total internal reflection along a curved and smooth surface. The long photon lifetime and strong field confinement characteristics make them promising candidates for enhancing light-matter interactions on a chip. In this talk, I will focus on microcavity sensing mechanisms and their practical applications in single nanoparticle detection, single-cell tracking and environmental monitoring.
Rapporteur's profile
Dr. Yun-Feng Xiao received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 2002 and 2007, respectively. After a postdoctoral research at Washington University in St. Louis, he joined the faculty of Peking University in 2009, and was promoted a tenured associated professor in 2015 and a full professor in 2019. His research interests lie in the fields of whispering-gallery microcavity optics and photonics. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 refereed journal papers in Science, Nature Photonics, PNAS, PRL, Advanced Materials et al. He has delivered over 100 plenary/keynote/invited talks/seminars in international/national conferences/universities. He is the Fellow of OSA, SPIE and COS, and has served as the committee member for more than 30 international conferences.
