Seminar by Daniel Adams (Colorado School of Mines)

Over the past 60 years, the formidable task of measuring the complex structure of coherent light has remained elusive. Fortunately, the last decade has seen the rise of a completely novel class of techniques based on computational imaging. These methods represent a paradigm shift away from experimental hardware toward sophisticated computer algorithms. In doing so, computational optics is paving theway to a new generation of high dimensional metrologies, finally providing a route to measure the most extreme events humans can create. This talk will detail the development of single-pulse, broadband computational metrologies specifically designed to measure ultrafast pulses of light across the electromagnetic spectrum.