Overview

The third International Workshop on Theoretical and Computational Nano-Photonics (TaCoNa-Photonics 2010) took place in the "Physikzentrum Bad Honnef", Bad Honnef, Germany on November 3-5 2010.

71 participants from 17 countries have contributed to the workshop. Topics of the workshop were covered in 2 plenary, 13 invited, 21 contributed oral and 21 poster presentations.

Program at a Glance


November  3, 2010
8:00-8:45 Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Welcome Address

Session 1 – Chair Person: Dmitry Chigrin

Plenary Presentations

Optical Sculpting: Shaping the Future of Biophotonics by Kishan Dholakia, Tomas Cizmar,...
Nanoplasmonics: New Design Concepts For Nanoscale Optical Cavities by Stefan Maier


Invited Presentations

Nanoplasmonics in field-enhanced spectroscopy by Javier Aizpurua
Recent Advances on the Effective Optical Properties of Turbid Colloids by Ruben G Barrera, Edahi...
Slowing and stopping light with an optomechanical crystal array by Darrick Chang, Amir Safavi-Naeini,...



Contributed Oral Presentations

Is It Possible To Homogenize Resonant Chiral Metamaterials? by Andrei Andryieuski, Christoph Menzel,...
Surface waves at the interface with an antisymmetric gain/loss profile by Jiří Čtyroký, Vladimír Kuzmiak,...
Nonlocal Effects in the Optical Response of Metal Nanoparticles by Christin David, Javier ...



Poster Presentations

Interplay of dispersion and resonance in photonic crystal three-port filters: a tight binding modeling by Andrea Armaroli
Extraordinary Transmission and Suppression of Transmission of Dual Metal Gratings with Subwavelength Slits by Viktoriia Babicheva, Yurii Lozovik
Electric Field Controlled Transmittivity Spectra of One-Dimensional Magnetic Photonic Crystals With a Complex EO/MO Defect Layer by Yuliya Dadoenkova, Igor Lyubchanskii,...