TOMORROW! OSA Student Chapter Seminar: "Casimir-like forces between particles under fluctuating optical fields" by J.J. Saenz

OSA Student Chapter Seminar: "Casimir-like forces between particles under fluctuating optical fields" by J.J. Saenz

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
CREOL Room 103

J.J. Sáenz
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)

Abstract:

We review some basic concepts related to the optical forces on small (subwavelength) particles, focusing on the interplay between scattering asymmetry and momentum transfer. We show that artificially created random fluctuating light fields can be used to induce and control isotropic Casimir-like forces between small colloidal particles.

Biography:

Prof. Juan Jose Saenz is Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) in San Sebastian (Spain). He was involved in the first works on magnetic force microscopy (MFM) in collaboration with Prof. Güntherodt’s group in Basel. He got his PhD at Universidad Auto´noma de Madrid (UAM) in 1987 and completed his postdoctoral research at IBM-Zurich in Dr. H. Rohrer’s group. In 2003 he was Invited Professor at École Centrale Paris and Professor in the Condensed Matter Physics Department at UAM until 2015. His research interests include theoretical work on nano-optics, optical forces, modelling of scanning probe microscopies (SPM) and wave transport and molecular imaging in complex media. He has published over 180 papers with more than 4700 citations (Web of Science’s H-factor 42). He is member of the Optical Society of America (OSA).

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