Invited Lectures

Partha Banerjee, Topical Meeting in Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging (DH), FL March 17-19, 2008.

Partha P. Banerjee, Georges T. Nehmetallah, Rola Aylo and Prathan Buranasiri, “Dispersion relations for negative index materials and slow light,” Proc. SPIE 6698, 66980M.1-669808.8 (2007).

J. W. Haus, “Transparent metallo-dielectric stacks for tunable subwavelength focusing,” SPIE Conference Photonics: Design, Tecnology and Packaging III, Canbeera, Australia, Dec. 5, 2007.

J. W. Haus, “Dispersion and anisotropy in photonic crystals,” Workshop on advances in Photonic Crystals, Capri, Italy, September 28, 2007.

J. W. Haus, “Ladar and Laser Communications Center,” Coherent Laser Radar Conference, Snowmass, CO, July 10, 2007.

J. W. Haus, “Nanophotonics: multi-layers and metamaterials,” two lectures, Erice Nanophotonics Workshop, Erice, Italy, June 27, 2007.

J. W. Haus, “Nanophotonics: Photonic crystals,” Erice Nanophotonics Workshop, Erice, Italy, June 28, 2007.

J. W. Haus, “Maxwell Garnett Electro-optic Materials,” Photonics West, San Jose, CA, Jan. 24, 2007.

P.P. Banerjee and G. Nehmetallah, “Pulse and Bean Propagation in Negative Index Materials,” Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, June 12-16, 2006.

B.D. Duncan and M.P. Dierking; “Stripmap Holographic Aperture Ladar,” invited presentation delivered during the Aperture Synthesis Symposium of the 21st Annual Meeting of IEEE LEOS, Newport Beach, CA, November 12, 2008.

N.J. Miller, B.D. Duncan and M.P. Dierking; “Digital Holographic Image Synthesis,” invited presentation delivered during the Aperture Synthesis Symposium of the 21st Annual Meeting of IEEE LEOS, Newport Beach, CA, November 12, 2008.

J. W. Haus, Nanophotonics/Biophotonics Conference October 15-18 2006, Hangzhou, China. “Negative refraction and sub-wavelength focusing in the visible range using transparent metal-dielectric stacks,” coauthors: J. W. Haus, M. Scalora, G. D'Aguanno, M. J. Bloemer, D. de Ceglia, M. Centini, N. Mattiucci, N. Akozbek, M. Cappeddu and M. Fowler.

J. W. Haus, SPIE Annual Meeting August 13-17, 2206. Invited: “Electro-optic composites” co-authors: J.W. Haus, B. Birchfield, R. Nelson and J. Grote.

J. W. Haus, Ohio Academy of Science 115th Annual Meeting, April 21-22, 2006. Invited talk: Nanophotonics.

J. W. Haus, Quantum Electronics Summer School held in Erice, Italy August 1-7, 2005, Two lectures on Photonic Crystals.

J. W. Haus, Laser Physics Conference, Nara, Japan July4-8, 2005, Second-harmonic Generation in lithium Niobate.

J. W. Haus, University of Delaware, March 3, 2005, Nanophotonics.

J. W. Haus, Norfolk State University, February 18, 2005, Nanophotonics.

J. W. Haus, Physics of Quantum Electronics Conference held in Snowbird, UT, Jan 2-7, 2005, Nanophotonics.

J. W. Haus, IEEE-LEOS Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico November 7-11, 2004. Nanophotonics with photonic crystals.

J. W. Haus, Laser Optics for Young Scientists 2003, St. Petersburg, Russia June 30 – July 4, 2003. Keynote talk. Title: Nanophotonics.

J. W. Haus, Quantum Electronics Conference, Snowbird, UT January 6-10, 2003, Title: Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Band Gap Structures.

P. E. Powers, “Improving the performance of midwave infrared optical parametric devices,” Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China, May 21 2008.

P. E. Powers, “A narrow bandwidth and broadly tunable terahertz source,” Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Covington, KY, May 23 2007.

P. E. Powers, “Modeling and validation of multiple-stage nonlinear interactions,” Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering Conference, Chicago, IL, June 23, 2007.

P. E. Powers, “A Narrow Bandwidth, Tunable Terahertz Source and its Applications,” The 2nd Symposium on Infrared Materials and Technologies, Pennsylvania State University, November 21 2005.

P. E. Powers, “Exploring the terahertz region with a narrowband tunable source,” October 25 2004, Department of Physics Condensed Matter Seminar, Case Western Reserve University.

P. E. Powers, “Terahertz generation in one dimensional photonic crystals,” Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 2004.

Q. Zhan, “Optimal Plasmonic Focusing with Thin Film Metrology Applications,” Invited talk, Annual Meeting of the German Society of Physics (DPG), March 22-27, Dresden, Germany, 2009.

Q. Zhan, “Optimal Plasmonic Focusing and Field Enhancement for Semiconductor Metrology Applications,” invited, The 6th Asia Pacific Near-field Optics conference (APNFO6), Yellow Mountain, China, June, 2007.

James L. Blackshire, Adam Cooney and Qiwen Zhan, “Terahertz Radiation as a Nondestructive Inspection Tool,” invited, the 3rd International Conference on Electromagnetic Near-field Characterization and Imaging (ICONIC 2007), St. Louis, Missouri, June, 2007.

Q. Zhan, “Polarization engineering of light and potential applications in fluorescence imaging,” invited, CERMACS2007-the Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Covington, KY, May, 2007.

Q. Zhan, “Nanometrology Using Spatially-Variant Polarization,” invited, in the proceedings of the Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science XXII conference, Rochester, NY, October, 2006

A. Tschimwangan, Q. Zhan, “Designing and testing a nulling radially symmetric Microellipsometer,” invited, in the proceeding of Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Dayton, OH, June, 2006

Q. Zhan, “Generation and focusing of radially polarized light,” Invited, APS march meeting, LA, CA, March, (2005).

Q. Zhan and J. R. Leger, “Imaging ellipsometry for high-spatial-resolution metrology,” Invited, SPIE proceedings Vol. 4435, “Wave Optics and VLSI photonic devices for information processing”, pp. 65-76, 2001.

Q. Zhan, “Cylindrical vector beams and their applications in nanoscale imaging and manipulation,”invited seminar, Physics Department, Lehigh University, Bethelem, PA, October, 2008.

Q. Zhan, “Subwavelength Metal Gratings and Their Applications,” invited seminar, the Institute of Optics and Electronics (IOE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Chengdu, China, July, 2008.

Q. Zhan, “Human Eyes, Brittle Stars and Optimal Plasmonic Focusing for Semiconductor Metrology Tools: What could they have in common?” invited seminar, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, May, 2008.

Q. Zhan, “Recent Developments of Optical Techniques for Semiconductor Characterization and Metrology,” invited seminar, Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, University of Florida, Gansville, FL, March, 2008.

Q. Zhan, “Nanometrology using Spatially Inhomogeneous Polarization,” invited seminar, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, June, 2007.

Q. Zhan, “Human Eyes, Brittle Stars and Semiconductor Metrology Tools: What could they have in common?” invited seminar, School of Optometry, Indianan University, Bloomington, IN, April, 2007.

Q. Zhan, “Recent Developments of Optical Nanometrology Techniques Using Spatially-Variant Polarization,” invited seminar, Materials Engineering Seminar, University of Dayton, April, 2007.

Q. Zhan, “Spatially Inhomogeneous Polarization and Their Potential Applications in Semiconductor Metrology,” invited seminar, Fraunhofer Institute for Nondestructive Testing, Dresden, Germany, February, 2007.

Qiwen Zhan, “Vectorial vortex and optical manipulation,” invited seminar, Physics Department, Xavier University, Cincinnati OH, April, 2006.

Q. Zhan and J. Haus, “Roads towards nanometrology at optical frequency,” invited seminar, Center for Nanotechnology (CNT), Dresden, Germany, January, 2006.

Q. Zhan, “Cylindrical vector beams: generation and applications,” invited seminar, Materials Laboratory Polymers Branch, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, June 2005.

Q. Zhan, “Cylindrical vector beams, generation and applications,” invited seminar, Department of Physics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, May, 2005.

Q. Zhan, “Optical polarization: What is new about it?” invited seminar, Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, September, 2004.

Q. Zhan, “Cylindrical polarization symmetry and its applications,” invited seminar, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, August, 2004.

Q. Zhan, “Development of optical techniques for nano-characterization,” EO 20 years anniversary, University of Dayton, March, 2004.

Q. Zhan, “Novel optical polarization techniques for nanophotonics,” invited seminar for Condensed matter physics seminar, University of Cincinnati, November, 2003.

Q. Zhan, “Cylindrical polarization symmetry and its applications,” invited seminar for Chemistry seminar, Boston College, October, 2003.