Invited Presentations

Nanoplasmonics in field-enhanced spectroscopy
Javier Aizpurua1
1Center for Materials Physics, CSIC-UPV/EHU and DIPC

Recent Advances on the Effective Optical Properties of Turbid Colloids
Ruben G Barrera1, Edahi Gutierrez-Reyes1, Augusto Garcia-Valenzuela2
1Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
2Centro de Ciencias Aplicadas y Desarrollo Tecnológico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México


Slowing and stopping light with an optomechanical crystal array
Darrick Chang1, Amir Safavi-Naeini1, Mohammad Hafezi2, Oskar Painter1
1California Institute of Technology
2Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland


Sponsor Tutorial: Simulation of nano optical devices in Time and Frequency Domain using CST MICROWAVE STUDIO®
Frank Demming-Janssen1
1CST-Computer Simulation Technology AG, Darmstadt, Germany

From transformational optics to plasmonics
M. Kadic1, G. Dupont1, S. Guenneau1, S. Enoch1
1Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Aix-Marseille Universite, France

Theory of Light Scattering From Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Andreas Knorr1, Alexander Carmele1, Julia Kabuss1
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin

Perfect imaging with positive refraction
Ulf Leonhardt1, Tomáš Tyc2, Aaron Danner3
1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, UK
2Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Masaryk University,Czech Republic
3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore,Singapore


Optomechanics with multiple optical and vibrational modes
Florian Marquardt1
1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany

Metamaterials, Transform Optics and Cloaking
Ross McPhedran1
1CUDOS and IPOS, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia

Sponsor Tutorial: Computationally-efficient Optimization of Nanophotonic Devices via Conformal Mesh FDTD Solutions
Bernhard Michel1
1Simuloptics GmbH, Germany

Polariton Quantum Optics
Vincenzo Savona1
1Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

FDTD Modeling of Nano- and Bio-Photonic Imaging
Stoyan Tanev1, Valery Tuchin2, James Pond3
1Integrative Innovation Management Unit, Department of Industrial and Civil Engineering, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
2Institute of Optics and Biophotonics, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russia
3Lumerical Solutions, Vancouver, BC, Canada


Algorithmic Differentiation for Calculus-based Optimization
Andrea Walther1
1Institut für Mathematik, Universität Paderborn, Germany