Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur: R. R. Dasari Distinguished Lecture Series - 2013

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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

R. R. Dasari Distinguished Lecture Series - 2013


Nanophotonics Studies Based on Modern Optics and Materials Science
by

Dr. Kazuaki Sakoda


Managing Director, Photonic Materials Unit
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
& Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Date/Time : 19TH AUGUST AT 12:00 PM
Venue : DA 229(ACES) (Tea will be served at 11:30 AM)
Abstract: The combination of modern optics and materials science can realize a variety of novel optical
phenomena that may find innovative applications. The lecture will be focussed in particular on (1) the control of
the radiation field by photonic crystals, metamaterials, plasmonic nano-cavities, and their fabrication
technologies, (2) nano-scale materials science like quantum dots, quantum rings, isoelectronic traps, and
polariton nano-fibers, and (3) their applications (Purcell effect, photonic Dirac cone, tunable laser, micro-pattern
laser, thermal IR source, single-photon source, and entangled photon-pair source).

About the Speaker


Professor Kazuaki Sakoda is the
Managing Director of the Photonic
Materials
Unit
at
the National
Institute for Materials Science
(NIMS), Japan. He is also a
Professor in the Doctoral Program in
Materials Science and Engineering
at the Graduate School of Pure and
Applied Sciences, University of
Tsukuba.
Professor Sakoda is an engineer and scientist by training.
Prior to joining NIMS as a Senior Researcher in 2002, he was
a researcher at the Toray Industries Electronic and
Information Materials Research Laboratory and an Associate
Professor of the Hokkaido University Research Institute for
Electronic Science. He was appointed Director of the NIMS
Quantum Dot Center in 2007 and has been Unit Director of
the Photonic Materials Unit since 2011. Prof. Sakoda is a very
well-known researcher in the area of Photonic crystals and
has several seminal publications to his credit.
He
holds the credit of writing the first comprehensive textbook on
the optical properties of photonic crystals. The book provides
both introductory knowledge for graduate and undergraduate
students and is also a store-house of important ideas for
researchers in this field.

About Dr. R.R.Dasari


Dr. Ramachandra Rao Dasari
was born in India in Krishna
District of Andhra Pradesh. He
had all his education in India
receiving B.Sc. in 1954 from
Andhra University, M.Sc. in 1956
from Benares Hindu University
and Ph.D. in 1960 from Aligarh
Muslim University.
He joined the faculty of the Department of Physics at the
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1962 and became a
full professor in 1973. Prof. Dasari's major accomplishment
at IIT Kanpur included the establishment of one of the
largest Laser laboratories for university research in India. He
left IIT Kanpur in 1978. After a couple of other stints, he
joined MIT in 1980 as a visiting Professor of Physics. In
1981 he was appointed Principal Research Scientist in
Spectroscopy Laboratory. In 1984 he was appointed as
Assistant Director of the Spectroscopy Laboratory and later
promoted as Associate Director in 1992. He oversees
project coordination and facility developments of the
National Institute of Health supported MIT Laser Biomedical
Research Center and also coordinates research programs
associated with the National Science Foundation supported
Laser Research facility.

* The lecture will be an introductory one for both graduate and undergraduate students.

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