Nanooptics and its Applications

News

• A list of the assigned talks can be found in ILIAS.
• Please register for the course in ILIAS. Contact one of the supervisors if you need the password.
• The start of the initial meeting has been shifted to 15:30.
• The initial meeting will take place on April 11, 15:45 15:30, in room 4.342. This meeting is essential for all participants of the seminar.

Initial Meeting

Topics

In the following, we provide a list of possible topics. Please note that this list is preliminary and might be expanded or changed.

Basic concepts

1. Mie theory: Localized resonances in spherical particles
2. Surface and waveguide plasmon polaritons
3. Complex plasmonics and plasmon hybridization
4. Quantum plasmonics
5. Metamaterials and transformation optics
6. Photonic crystals

Applications

7. Light-matter interaction in plasmonic nanoantennas
8. Metasurfaces
9. Chirality, non-reciprocity, and optical activity in nanooptics
10. Refractive index sensing using plasmonic nanostructures
11. Surface- and antenna enhanced spectroscopy
12. Near field optical spectroscopy and applications
13. Nonlinear plasmonics – frequency conversion at the nanoscale
14. SPASER – the plasmonic laser
15. Adiabatic compression and strong field effects at nanotips
16. Time resolved spectroscopy and optical control on the nanoscale