Abstract:

In optical microscopy and lithography, the resolution is restricted to about half the wavelength of the light by something called the diffraction limit. Many attempts have been made to advance this field beyond the current limit set by the wavelength of the laser used. These methods are usually based on multi-photon processes, multiple beams and/or quantum entanglement making the implementation of these schemes extremely difficult. In this talk, I shall discuss these methods and then present simple methods for optical sub-wavelength imaging and lithography.

Short Bio:

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Suhail_Zubairy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Suhail_Zubairy>):
Muhammad SuhailZubairy, HI, SI, FPAS (born October 19, 1952), is a UniversityDistinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Texas A&M University and is the inaugural holder of the Munnerlyn-Heep Chair in Quantum Optics. He has made pioneering contributions in the fields of Quantum computing, laser physics and quantum optics. He has authored and co-authored several books and over 300 research papers on a wide variety of research problems relating to theoretical physics. His research and work has been widely recognized by the physics community and he has won many international awards.