Students in Prof. Michael Downer's PHY 395K class present 15-minute overviews of current topics in nonlinear optics and laser science.

NLO processes in condensed matter

- 12:30: Kha Tran, Super-resolution imaging by stimulated emission depletion fluorescence microscopy
- 12:50: Kamel Sobotkiewich, Spontaneous Brillouin cooling of phonon modes
- 13:10: Feng He, Squeezed states of phonons
- 13:30 Walter Furman, High-order harmonic generation from nanocrystals
- 13:50-14:00: Coffee Break
- 14:00: Luc Lisi, High-order harmonic generation in bulk crystals
- 14:20: Tobias Hadamek, Nonlinear optics in chiral materials
- 14:40: Woojoo Lee, Optical interactions with topological insulators