Cody Leary, associate professor of physics at the College of Wooster, will be visiting campus to discuss several areas of progress in the study of interactions between light and matter.
We review progress in three areas of research involving interactions between light and matter. First, we model the forces and torques imparted to nanoscale particles moving in structured electromagnetic fields, which contain spatial gradients of polarization and overall phase across the field profile. Second, we describe a recent experiment involving entangled two-photon interferometry, and show how extensions of this work allow for the extraction of amplitude and phase information related to two-photon quantum light-matter interactions. Finally, we discuss an experiment where geometrical information relating to the time evolution of a light beam’s polarization state evolution may be encoded onto its overall phase.
Join us on Friday, February 10, from 12 to 1 p.m. in Hayes 211/213 to hear this presentation. Lunch will be available in Hayes 216 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. We hope to see you there!