Invited Presentations

Broad Periodic Waveguides : Simultaneous Slow Light of Multiple Modes
Henri Benisty1, Omer Khayam1
1Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique, CNRS

Nonlinear Gyroelectric Waves In Magnetooptic Metamaterials
Allan Boardman1, Peter Egan1, Ortwin Hess2, Rhiannon Mitchell-Thomas1, Yuriy Rapoport1
1Joule Physics Laboratory, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK
2Advanced Technology Institute, Department of Physics, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK


Singular system analysis in electromagnetic focusing problems
Matthew Foreman1, Peter Török1
1Physics Department, Imperial College London

The pump-probe approach to coherent backscattering of intense laser light from cold atoms
Tobias Geiger1, Thomas Wellens1, Vyacheslav Shatokhin1, Andreas Buchleitner1
1Quantum Optics and Statistics, Institute of Physics, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Germany

Impedance of a nanoantenna
Jean-Jacques Greffet1, Marine Laroche1, François Marquier1
1Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Institut d Optique, Universite Paris Sud, CNRS, France

Transmission enhancement, perfect absorption and field squeezing with nano-antennas and metamaterials
Sailing He1,2, Yuqian Ye1, Yi Jin1, Yanxia Cui1
1Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, Zhejiang University
2Division of Electromagnetic Theory, School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden


Cavity Exciton-Polaritons, Bose Einstein Condensation and Spin Dynamics
Guillaume Malpuech1
1LASMEA, CNRS and University Blaise Pascal, 24 Avenue de Landais, 63177, Clermont Ferrand, FRANCE

Determination of the Lasing Mode Structure in Finite 1D Optical Potentials: Inverse Problem Solution
Stephen O'Brien1
1Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Ireland

Topology optimization in nano-photonics
Ole Sigmund1
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark

New Horizons of Nanoplasmonics: from SPASER to Attoseconds
Mark Stockman1-3
1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA
2Max Plank Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
3Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, German


Sponsor Tutorial: Complete Technology for Optical Simulations
Marli Strydom1
1CST-Computer Simulation Technology AG, Germany

Electromagnetic Characterization of Metamaterials: Activities of the ECONAM Project
Sergei Tretyakov1, Constantin Simovski1, Ari Sihvola1
1Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Quantum and Nonlinear Optics in Complex Photonic Media
Hakan Tureci1
1Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland