Michael Horodynski
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Abstract:
The newly emerging field of wavefront shaping in complex media has recently seen enormous progress. The driving force behind these advances has been the experimental accessibility of the information stored in the scattering matrix of a disordered medium, which can nowadays routinely be exploited to focus light as well as to image or to transmit information even across highly turbid scattering samples. In the first portion of the talk, I will talk about some of the results in this field, hoping to provide a little overview.
The second portion will be on the recent result of our group – the application of wavefront shaping to the field of optical trapping and micromanipulation. We demonstrate both theoretically and experimentally how to achieve wave states that are optimal for transferring momentum, torque, etc. on a target of arbitrary shape embedded in an arbitrary environment.
Biography:
Michael Horodynski is currently a PhD-student in the group of Prof. Stefan Rotter at the Vienna University of Technology. His research interest is the scattering of wave fields in complex media.
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