Title: Spatio-spectral analysis of optical fields

Speaker: David Brady, Director of the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications, Addy Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

When/where: Tuesday, November 18th, 4:15PM, 200 AKW

Abstract:

An optical field consists of a data volume of modal, spectral, polarization and coherence data. Optical sensors measure projections of the data volume. Optical sensors are increasingly adapted to task-specific projections for diffuse source spectroscopy, target tracking, high depth-of-field or multidimensional imaging. This talk considers modal basis states for describing optical fields and discusses methodologies for high fidelity and data efficient sampling. Applications to tissue spectroscopy and human or robotic tracking are used to illustrate the core ideas.