Program at a Glance

Wednesday - October 26, 2011
8:00-8:45 Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Welcome Address
  Session 1 – Chair Person: Dmitry Chigrin
9:00-10:00
Plenary Talk 1
CMOS integrated nanophotonics for future computing systems • Yurii Vlasov
10:00-10:45 Invited Talk 1 Dirac cone and double zero materials • C. T. Chan, Xueqin Huang, Yun Lai, Zhi Hong Hang, Huihuo Zheng
10:45-11:25 Coffee Break  
  Session 2 – Chair Person: Yurii Vlasov
11:25-11:45 Surface Plasmon Polariton Modulator with Periodic Patterning of Indium Tin Oxide Layers • Viktoriia Babicheva, Andrei Lavrinenko
11:45-11:05 Bending light on a chip with Airy plasmons • Dragomir Neshev, Alexander Minovich, Wei Liu, Angela Klein, Norik Janunts, Ilya Shadrivov, Andrey Miroshnichenko, Thomas Pertsch, Yuri Kivshar
12:05-12:25 Transport properties of MOPhC/metal one-way waveguide • Sergey Eyderman, Vladimir Kuzmiak
12:30-14:00 Lunch
  Session 3 – Chair Person: Che Ting Chan
14:00-14:45 Invited Talk 2 Master equations for semiconductor cavity-QED • Stephen Hughes, C. Roy
14:45-15:30 Invited Talk 3 Quantum optics in superconducting circuits • Barry Sanders
15:30-15:50 Scattering Induced Quantum Interference of Multiple Quantum Optical States • Johan R. Ott, N. Asger Mortensen, Peter Lodahl
15:50-16:10 Effective mode volumes for leaky optical cavities • Philip Trøst Kristensen, Cole Van Vlack, Stephen Hughes
16:10-16:50 Coffee Break
  Session 4 – Chair Person: Stephen Hughes
16:50-17:35 Invited Talk 4 Quantum fluids of light in nonlinear polaritonic systems • Cristiano Ciuti
17:35-18:20 Invited Talk 5 Towards understanding dynamics of atoms and molecules in intense laser fields • Serguei Patchkovskii
18:20-18:40 Coherent random lasing in diffusive resonant media • Ravitej Uppu, Anjanikumar Tiwari, Sushil Mujumdar
18:40-19:00 Ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy with spatially confined fields • Felix Schlosser, Mario Schoth, Sven Burger, Frank Schmidt, Andreas Knorr, Shaul Mukamel, Marten Richter
19:00-20:30 Dinner
20:30-22:00 Poster Session

 

Thursday - October 27, 2011
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
  Session 5 – Chair Person: Barry Sanders
9:00-10:00 Plenary Talk 2 Optical antennas for modifying the radiation of single quantum emitters • Vahid Sandoghdar
10:00-10:45 Invited Talk 6 Near-field correlations and fluctuations in multiple scattering of light • Remi Carminati
10:45-11:25 Coffee Break
Session 6 – Chair Person: Vahid Sandoghdar
11:25-11:45 Analytical Description of Fano Resonances in Plasmonic Nanostructures • Benjamin Gallinet, Olivier J. F. Martin
11:45-11:05 On the Phase of the Electric Field in Optical Antennas • Brice Rolly, Brian Stout,Sebastien Bidault, Nicolas Bonod
12:05-12:25 Au/InAs Surface Plasmon Polariton Amplifier and SPASER • Dmitry Fedyanin, Aleksey Arsenin
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Session 7 – Chair Person: Serguei Patchkovskii
14:00-14:45 Invited Talk 7 Quantum Coherence in Nano- and Micro-Photonics • Salvatore Savasta
14:45-15:30 Invited Talk 8 Quantum friction and radiative transfer • Alejandro Manjavacas, Javier Garcia de Abajo
15:30-15:50 Enhancement of extraordinary transmission in subwavelength apertures by excitation of particle localized plasmons • Francisco Javier Valdivia-Valero, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas
15:50-16:10 Peculiarities of elementary transformation processes for 2D metal-dielectric structures • Boris Sturman, Evgeny Podivilov, Maxim Gorkunov
16:10-16:50 Coffee Break
Session 8 – Chair Person: Cristiano Ciuti
16:50-17:35 Invited Talk 9 About linear momentum of light in metamaterials and "Minkowsky-Abragam controversy" resolution • Victor Veselago
17:35-18:20 Invited Talk 10 Electric and magnetic dipolar response of dielectric nanospheres: Scattering anisotropy and optical forces • Raquel Gomez-Medina, Braulio Garcia-Camara, Irene Suarez-Lacalle, Luis Froufe-Perez, Francisco Gonzalez, Fernando Moreno, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas, Juan Jose Saenz
18:20-18:40 Sponsor Tutorial: Simulation of plasmonic nano-structures with CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® • Frank Demming-Janssen
18:40-19:00 Superlensing Effects in Anisotropic Eutectic Metamaterials in the THz Range • Alexey Basharin, Maria Kafesaki, Eleftherios Economou, Costas Soukoulis
19:00-19:15 Poster Award
19:15-22:00 Workshop Dinner

 

Friday - October 28, 2011
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
Session 9 – Chair Person: Salvatore Savasta
9:00-10:00 Plenary Talk 3 Probing and imaging of optical antennas with PEEM • Pascal Melchior, Martin Aeschlimann
10:00-10:45 Invited Talk 11 From cavity QED with quantum gases to optomechanics • Helmut Ritsch
10:45-11:25 Coffee Break
Session 10 – Chair Person: Juan Jose Saenz
11:25-12:10 Invited Talk 12 Photon Management in Thin-Film Solar Cells • Carsten Rockstuhl, Stephan Fahr, Samuel Wiesendanger, Falk Lederer
12:10-12:30 Passive optical sorting of plasmon nanoparticles: Numerical investigation of optimal illumination • Martin Ploschner, Michael Mazilu, Tomas Cizmar, Kishan Dholakia
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Session 11 – Chair Person: Helmut Ritsch
14:00-14:45 Invited Talk 13 Polaritonic metamaterials for THz photonics • Stavroula Foteinopoulou
14:45-15:05 Analysis of diffraction gratings via their resonances • Benjamin Vial, Mireille Commandre, Frederic Zolla, Andre Nicolet, Stephane Tisserand
15:05-15:25 Application of the Discontinuous Galerkin Time Domain Method to the Optics of Bi-Chiral Plasmonic Crystals • Yevgen Grynko, Jens Förstner, Torsten Meier, André Radke, Timo Gissibl, Paul V. Braun, Harald Giessen
15:25-15:55 Coffee
Session 12 – Chair Person: Carsten Rockstuhl
15:55-16:40 Invited Talk 14 Light emission and scattering in plasmonic nano-structures • Dmitry Chigrin
16:40-17:00 Polarization Change in Face-Centered Cubic Opal Films • Christian Wolff, Sergei Romanov, Jens Küchenmeister, Ulf Peschel, Kurt Busch
17:00-17:20 Nonlinear Optical Diffraction by Standing Acoustic Waves in a GaAs Film • Nikita Schevchenko, Natalia Dadoenkova, Igor Lyubchanskii, Florian Bentivegna, YoungPak Lee, Theo Rasing
17:20-17:30 Closing Remarks
Departure