Contributed Oral Presentations

Wave Propagation Method as an Accurate Technique for Effective Refractive Index Retrieving
Andrei Andryieuski1, Radu Malureanu1, Andrei Lavrinenko1
1DTU Fotonik – Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Build. 343, DK-2800, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Electromagnetic wave slowing down in graphene bilayer
Konstantin Batrakov1, Polina Kuzhir2, Sergey Maksimenko3
1Institute for Nuclear Problems, Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus

Numerical Investigation of Silicon-on-Insulator 1D Photonic Crystal Microcavities
Sven Burger1,2, Lin Zschiedrich1,2
1Computational Nanooptics, Zuse Institute Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2JCMwave GmbH, Putzbrunn, Germany


Theory of few photon dynamics in light emitting quantum dot devices
Alexander Carmele1, Marten Richter1, Anna Sitek1,2, Andreas Knorr1
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
2Institute of Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland


Single molecule fluorescence quenching by metallic nanoparticles: crossover between macroscopic and microscopic interactions
Etienne Castanié1, Matthieu Boffety1,2, Rémi Carminati1
1Laboratoire d'Optique Physique, Institut Langevin, ESPCI ParisTech - CNRS, France
2Laboratoire EM2C, Ecole Centrale Paris - CNRS, France


Near Unity Conversion between Guided Photons and Surface Plasmon-Polaritons
Xuewen Chen1, Vahid Sandoghdar1, Mario Agio1
1Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Path integrals for light propagation through dielectrics - a full vector version.
Yair Dimant1, Shimon Levit1
1Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science

Plasmonics in Thin Film Solar Cells
Stephan Fahr1, Carsten Rockstuhl1, Falk Lederer1
1Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Institute of Condensed Matter Theory and Solid State Optics, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena

Anticrossing of Whispering Gallery Modes in Microdisk Resonators Embedded in a Liquid Crystal
Jens Förstner1, Stefan Declair1, Cedrik Meier1, Torsten Meier1
1Universität Paderborn

Electromagnetic Scattering of Finite and Infinite 3D Lattices in Polarizable Backgrounds
Benjamin Gallinet1, Olivier J. F. Martin1
1Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Bistability and Stationary Gap Solitons in Quasiperiodic Photonic Crystals Based on Thue-Morse Sequence
Victor Grigoriev1, Fabio Biancalana1
1Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Nonlinear Photonic Nanostructures Research Group, Erlangen, Germany

Coupling Between Split-Ring Resonators
Michael König1,2, Kai Stannigel1,2, Jens Niegemann1,2, Kurt Busch1,2
1Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
2DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN), Universität Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany


Disorder-Induced Multiple-Scattering In Photonic-Crystal Waveguides
Simon Mazoyer1, Christophe Sauvan1, Jean-Paul Hugonin1, Philippe Lalanne1
1Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Palaiseau, France

Slow Light Based on Material and Waveguide Dispersion
Torben Nielsen1, Andrei Lavrinenko1, Jesper Moerk1
1DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

Semi-analytical models for resonant states near photonic crystal band edges
Christopher Poulton1, Sahand Mahmoodian2, Kokou Dossou1, Ross McPhedran2, Lindsay Botten1, C. Martijn de Sterke2
1CUDOS, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia
2CUDOS, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia