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A pioneer of DNA nanotechnology, Prof. Laura Na Liu from the University of Stuttgart in Germany, has been working at the interface, where nanophotonics meets biology and chemistry.
Eric Betzig, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize of Chemistry, believes scientists should take risks and think out of the box in order to achieve breakthroughs.
Prof. Liangcai Cao spoke about the current opportunities and challenges of holography and took us on a journey through the history of holography development.
Academician Junhao Chu, specializing in infrared and semiconductors, makes outstanding contributions by putting forward a series of expressions such as the gap width of mercury cadmium telluride bands, etc.
Prof. Peter Delfyett has been working on semiconductor mode-locked lasers and optical frequency combs, and his research has sped up the transmission of information.
Prof. Guangcan Guo took it upon himself to delve into quantum optics and quantum informatics, which helped to accelerate the development of quantum science in China.
Prof. Stefan Hell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014 for being the first to propose that the optical diffraction limit can be broken, and for successfully developing the STED super-resolution fluorescence microscope.
Prof. Martin Booth, as one of the first people to explore the practical use of adaptive optics in microscopy, shares with us his valuable experience and insight
Prof. Thomas G. Brown from the University of Rochester introduced the term “cylindrical vector beam” to describe unique and unconventional polarization states.
