Home News Colloquia colloquien_SS_2016 Archiv colloquium series summer term 2016 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Federico Capasso, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Metasurfaces for Wavefront Shaping: High-performance Planar Photonic Components beyond Refractive and Diffractive Optics (Prof. F. Capasso) Date: May 3, 2016 Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany) Speaker: Prof. Dr. Federico Capasso, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall Host: MPQ The design of fundamental optical components such as lenses, gratings, and holograms has remained essentially unchanged for at least fifty years, relying on textbook refractive and diffractive optics. [more]