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5th International Topical Meeting on
Nanophotonics and Metamaterials (NANOMETA
2015)
Seefeld, Austria, 5-8 January 2015
Monday, 5 January 2015 - Olympia Room - 08:35 - 08:45
- Opening Remarks: Nikolay Zheludev and Harald Giessen Chair:
Plenary Session - MON1o - Plenary Talk 1
Chair:
MON1o-PL-01 08:45
Plenary
Nano-photonic phenomena in atomically thin van der Waals crystals
Dmitri N Basov
University of California in San Diego, San Diego, United States
We investigated surface plasmons in graphene and phonon polaritons in a natural hyperbolic
material hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) using infrared nano-imaging. Peculiar properties of phonon
polaritons in hBN enabled sub-diffractional focusing and image formation.
Monday, 5 January 2015 - Foyer - 09:45 - 10:00
- Coffee Break Chair:
Oral Session - MON2o - Attoseconds & Electrons
Chair:
Invited
MON2o-I-01 10:00
How to Design Any Linear Optical Component and How to Avoid It
David Miller
Stanford University, Stanford, United States
We show how to perform any linear optical function on a coherent light beam, proving arbitrary
functions are possible, beyond previous capabilities. Using simple feedback loops, no calculations
are needed in this progressive method.
Oral
MON2o-O-02 10:30
Attosecond Near-Field Streaking from Au Nanotips
Matthias Kling1, Benjamin Förg1, Johannes Schötz1, Frederik Süßmann1, Karen Wintersperger1, Ferenc
Krausz1, Byungnam Ahn2, Dongeon Kim2, Mark I. Stockman3, Michael Förster4, Michael Krüger4, Peter
Hommelhoff4
1
Laboratory for Attosecond Physics, Max-Planck-Institut für Qauntenoptik and LudwigMaximilians-Universität München, Garching, Germany
2
Physics Department, CASTECH, POSTECH and Max Planck Center for Attosecond Science,
Pohang, Korea, Republic of (South)
3
Center for Nano-Optics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, United States
4
Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
We demonstrate that attosecond streaking spectroscopy can be applied to measure the waveform of
the near-field of Au nanotips that results from their excitation with a few-cycle near-infrared laser
pulse.
Oral
MON2o-O-03 10:45
Field-resolved multi-THz nano-spectroscopy with sub-cycle temporal resolution
Max Eisele1, Tyler Cocker1, Markus Huber1, Markus Plankl1, Leonardo Viti2, Daniele Ercolani2, Lucia Sorba2,
Miriam Vitiello2, Rupert Huber1
1
Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany, Regensburg,
Germany
2
NEST, CNR – Istituto Nanoscienze and Scuola Normale Superiore, 56127 Pisa, Italy, Pisa, Italy
We demonstrate a novel microscope combining ultrafast, pump-probe terahertz spectroscopy and
near-field microscopy. This concept enables the field-resolved observation of 10-fs carrier dynamics
within a single indium-arsenide nanowire with 10-nm resolution in all spatial dimensions.
Oral
MON2o-O-04 11:00
A nanoscale vacuum-tube diode triggered by few-cycle laser pulses
Takuya Higuchi, Peter Hommelhoff
Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen, Germany
We propose and demonstrate a nanoscale vacuum-tube diode consisting of two metal nano-tips as
an ultrafast electronic device employing pulsed electrons emitted by few-cycle photoemission.
Oral
MON2o-O-05 11:15
Photonic Hypercrystals
Evgenii Narimanov
Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
We introduce a new “universality class” of artificial optical media - photonic hypercrystals. These
hyperbolic metamaterials with periodic spatial variation of dielectric permittivity on subwavelength
scale combine the features of optical metamaterials and photonic crystals.
Invited
MON2o-I-06 11:30
Condensed Matter in Ultrafast and Superstrong Fields: Attosecond Phenomena
Mark Stockman
Center for Nano-Optics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States
We discuss latest developments in theory and recent experimental results for a new class of
phenomena in condensed matter optics when a strong optical field reversibly changes the solid
within an optical cycle.
Invited
MON2o-I-07 12:00
Bulk and Surface Correspondence through Geometric Phases in Classical Wave
Systems
Che Ting Chan, Meng Xiao
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
We find a relationship between the surface impedance and the geometric phase of the bulk bands for
photonic crystals and this bulk-interface correspondence can be used to determine the existence of
interfacial states.
Monday, 5 January 2015 - Seefeld/Tirol Room - 10:00 - 12:00
Oral Session - MON2s - Metasurfaces
Chair:Uriel Levy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Invited
MON2s-I-01 10:00
Polarization Control and Wavefront Engineering of Surface Plasmon Polaritons with
Metasurfaces
Federico Capasso1, Antonio Ambrosio1, 2, Patrice Genevet1, Daniel Wintz1
1
Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
2
CNR-SPIN, Napoli, Italy
We demonstrate that a linear arrangement of rotated nano-apertures etched in a metallic film can
control the phase velocity of a running wave of polarization.
Invited
MON2s-I-02 10:30
Recent Progresses on Meta-surfaces
Lei Zhou
Physics Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
We briefly summarize our recent efforts in employing meta-surfaces to control electromagnetic
waves, including realizing high-efficiency photonic spin-hall effect and surface-plasmon couplers,
and controlling phases with graphene-based meta-surfaces.
MON2s-I-03 11:00
Invited
Novel Photonic Functionality with Few-layer Metamaterials
Antoinette Taylor1, Houtong Chen1, Nathaniel Grady1, Jane Heyes1, Abul Azad1, Dibakar Chowdhury1, Li
Huang2
1
Center for Integrated Nanaotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United
States
2
Physics Department, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
We present thin-film-like terahertz metamaterials consisting of only a few layers of planar
subwavelength metallic structures for a host of functionalities including antireflection, perfect
absorption, linear polarization conversion, and arbitrary wavefront shaping.
MON2s-I-04 11:30
Invited
Metasurface for simultaneous control of phase and amplitude
Shuang Zhang1, Lixiang Liu1, 2, Xueqian Zhang1, 3, Mitchell Kenney1, Xiaoqiang Su3, Ningning Xu4, Chunmei
Ouyang3, Yunlong Shi2, Jiaguang Han3, Weili Zhang4
1
University of Birmingham School of Physics & Astronomy, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2
Institute of Solid State Physics, Shanxi Datong University, Datong, China
3
Center for Terahertz Waves and College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics
Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
4
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, United
States
We combine the freedoms of both structural design and the orientation of the antennas to fully
control the phase and amplitude profiles of metasurface over a broad bandwidth.
Monday, 5 January 2015 - - 12:30 - 17:00
- Break Chair:
Oral Session - MON3o - New Materials
Chair:Martin Wegener, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Invited
MON3o-I-01 17:00
All-optical magnetization switching on a nanoscale
Martin Aeschlimann
Department of Physics and Research Center OPTIMAS, University of Kaiserslautern,
Kaiserslautern, Germany
All-optical magnetization switching (AOS) by circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses and
suitable designed plasmonic nanoantennas imply the potential for optical control of magnetism and
the development of ever faster future magnetic recording technologies.
Oral
MON3o-O-02 17:30
Magneto-chiral plasmonics in hybrid nanostructures
Hyeon-Ho Jeong1, Tung-Chun Lee1, Mariana Alarcón-Correa1, 2, Sahand Eslami1, John G. Gibbs1, Cornelia
Miksch1, Andrew G. Mark1, Peer Fischer1, 2
1
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
2
Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
We describe a physical vapour deposition process for generating, at wafer scale, nanoscale
plasmonic structures with complex three dimensional shapes. We focus on hybrid nanoparticles that
combine multiple materials and possess multiple functionalities.
Invited
MON3o-I-03 17:45
Dynamic Properties of Highly Doped Zinc Oxide
Nathaniel Kinsey, Clayton DeVault, Jongbum Kim, Ikuko Kitamura, Marcello Ferrera, Urcan Guler, Ludmilla
Prokopeva, Alexander Kildishev, Vladimir Shalaev, Alexandra Boltasseva
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, United States
The dynamic properties of aluminum-doped zinc oxide are investigated using a pump-probe
technique where an ultrafast change in the transmission is observed. Using this effect, a tunable
filter concept in the near-infrared is investigated.
Invited
MON3o-I-04 18:15
Optically Resonant Dielectric Nanostructures: A New Paradigm for Nanophotonics
Arseniy Kuznetsov, Boris Luk'yanchuk
Data Storage Institute, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), 5 Engineering
Drive 1, Singapore 117608, Singapore
Nanoantennas made of high-index dielectrics is a new approach in nanophotonics, which can
substitute plasmonics for many potential applications. They do not suffer from Ohmic losses and
possess additional functionalities compared to their plasmonic counterparts.
Oral Session - MON3s - Chiral and Toroidal Metamaterials
Chair:Bumki Min, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon,
Korea, Republic of (South)
Invited
MON3s-I-01 17:00
Polarization Control of Light by Materials and Metamaterials with Threefold
Rotational Symmetry
Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami1, Takuya Higuchi2
1
Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2
Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Materials with three-fold rotational symmetry exhibit unique polarization properties in second-order
nonlinear processes such as terahertz and second-harmonic generation. We have demonstrated
polarization control and applications using materials or metamaterials with three-fold rotational
symmetry.
MON3s-I-02 17:30
Invited
Nondispersive optical activity of meshed helical metamaterials
Bumki Min, Hyun Sung Park, Teun-Teun Kim, Hyeon-Don Kim, Kyungjin Kim
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South)
We demonstrate strong, flat broadband optical activity with high transparency can be obtained with
meshed helical metamaterials in which metallic helical structures are networked and arranged to
have four-fold rotational symmetry around the propagation axis.
MON3s-O-03 18:00
Oral
PT Symmetric Metasurfaces and Polarisation Phase Transitions
Mark Lawrence1, Ningning Xu2, Xueqian Xueqian1, 3, Longqing Cong3, Jiaguang Han3, Weili Zhang2, 3,
Shuang Zhang1
1
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, United
States
3
Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
We report the investigation of a novel phase transition in the polarisation eigenstates of transmission
through anisotropic PT symmetric metasurfaces, consisting of orthogonally orientated SRR arrays
with different absorption coefficients. THz-TDS has been employed for characterisation.
MON3s-I-04 18:15
Invited
3D SRR, Toroidal Metamaterials and Metahologram
Din Ping Tsai1, 2, Pin Chieh Wu1, Yao-Wei Huang1, Wei-Lun Hsu1, Mu-Ku Chen1, Chun Yen Liao1, Wei-Yi
Tsai1, Hao Tsun Lin1, Yi-Teng Huang1, Jie Chen1, Yi-Hao Chen1, Hui Jun Wu1, Hao Xu1
1
Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2
Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Here, we performed several metamaterial based optical devices including three-dimensional (3D)
split-ring resonators (SRRs) based nanophotonic sensor, toroidal response in metamaterials and
high-efficiency broadband reflected metasurface and meta-hologram at optical frequencies.
Monday, 5 January 2015 - Foyer - 18:45 - 19:00
Oral Session - MON4o - Breakthrough Talk I
Chair:Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
Breakthrough
MON4o-K-01 19:00
Photonic Topological Insulators
Mordechai (Moti) Segev
Physics Department, Technion, Israel, Haifa, Israel
The recent expriments on photonic topological insuolators signified a new direction in photonics.
The progress in this area will be reviewed, with an emphasis on universal ideas common to optics,
cold atoms and quantum systems.
Invited
MON4o-I-02 19:30
Active Nanophotonics: Nonlinear Metamaterials and Nanoemitters
Yeshaiahu Fainman
UCSD, La Jolla, United States
This paper discusses nanoscale engineered second order nonlinearities in silicon and a 3-D confined
metal-dielectric-semiconductor resonant gain geometries used to create a new type of nanolasers for
chip-scale integration of photonic information systems.
Oral Session - MON4s - Breakthrough Talk II
Chair:Hongsheng Chen, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Breakthrough
MON4s-K-01 19:00
3D Invisibility Cloaking in Ballistic and Diffusive Propagation of Light
Martin Wegener
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Institute of Applied Physics Institute of Nanotechnology,
Karlsruhe, Germany
We present our recent experimental work on invisibility cloaking in the diffusive regime of light
propagation in three dimensions, throughout the entire visibe range, for macroscpic objects, and for
all directions and polarizations of light.
Breakthrough
MON4s-K-02 19:30
Active 3D plasmonics
Na Liu
Active control of 3D configuration is the key step towards smart plasmonic nanostructures with
desired functionalities. We lay out a multi-disciplinary strategy to create active 3D plasmonic
nanostructures, which execute DNA-regulated conformational changes on the nanoscale.
Tuesday, 6 January 2015 - Olympia Room - 08:30 - 09:30
Plenary Session - TUE1o - Plenary Talk 2
Chair:
TUE1o-PL-01 08:30
Plenary
Enhancing Light-matter Interactions Using Microstructured Glass Fibres
Philip Russell
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
Twisted PCF supports novel helical Bloch modes, dual nanoweb fibres offer giant optomechanical
gain and acoustic resonances trapped in micron-scale glass cores can be used to stably mode-lock
soliton fibre lasers at gigahertz rates.
Tuesday, 6 January 2015 - Foyer - 09:30 - 09:45
Oral Session - TUE2o - Ultrafast & Nonlinear
Chair:Andrea Alu, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Invited
TUE2o-I-01 09:45
Broadband Terahertz Generation from Metamaterials
Costas M Soukoulis
Ames Lab/Iowa State University, Ames, United States
IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
We experimentally demonstrate efficient broadband THz generation, ranging from 0.1 - 4 THz,
from a thin layer of SRRs with few tens of nanometers thickness by pumping at
tele-communications wavelength of 1.5 microns (200 THz).
Invited
TUE2o-I-02 10:15
Inherent Third-Order Nonlinearities in Refractory Metallic TiN Thin Films
Nathaniel Kinsey1, Devon Courtwright2, Clayton DeVault1, Vladimir Gavrilenko2, Carl Bonner2, Alexander
Kildishev1, Alexandra Boltasseva1, Vladimir Shalaev1
1
Electrical & Computer Engineering, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN, United States
2
Center for Materials Science, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA, United States
The third-order nonlinear properties of the refractory metal titanium nitride are investigated using
Z-scan. TiN is shown to have a nonlinear performance one order of magnitude larger than gold
films of a similar thickness.
Oral
TUE2o-O-03 10:45
Functional and Efficient Nonlinear Metamaterial Photonic Crystals
Nadav Segal, Shay Keren-Zur, Netta Hendler, Tal Ellenbogen
Department of Physical Electronics, Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel-Aviv University,
Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel
We demonstrate experimentally exceptional control of nonlinear emission from a new family of
nonlinear metamaterials, including wide-angle all-optical deflection and intense focusing. In
addition we show how to create 3D structures towards efficient frequency conversion.
Invited
TUE2o-I-04 11:00
Metal Nanoantennas: Nonlinear Response and Coupling to Nanoemitters
Rudolf Bratschitsch
Institute of Physics, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
We study the nonlinear emission of metal nanoantennas excited with few-cycle infrared light pulses
and couple antennas with atomically thin semiconductors to increase the light-matter interaction.
Invited
TUE2o-I-05 11:30
Metasurfaces and Epsilon-Near-Zero Modes in Semiconductors
Igal Brener
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New
Mexico, United States
I will discuss the physics of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) modes in thin conducting layers. These ENZ
modes can be used to alter and enhance the coupling between metasurfaces, phonons and
intersubband transitions in semiconductor heterostructures.
Tuesday, 6 January 2015 - Seefeld/Tirol Room - 09:45 - 12:15
Oral Session - TUE2s - Nanophotonics
Chair:Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
Invited
TUE2s-I-01 09:45
Jaynes-Cummings nonlinearity of a quantum dot coupled to a plasmonic resonator
Bert Hecht, Heiko Gross
Nano-Optics & Biophotonics group Institute of Physics University of Würzburg, Würzburg,
Germany
A single quantum dot is strongly coupled to a plasmonic resonator at ambient conditions. Power
depenedent spectra reveal a nonlinear response that is compatible with the activation of higher
transitions of the Jaynes-Cummings ladder.
Oral
TUE2s-O-02 10:15
Exploring the limits of the two photon interference from coupled quantum dotmicrocavity systems
Christian Schneider1, S. Unsleber1, P. Gold1, S. Maier1, M. Dambach1, S. Höfling1, M. Kamp1, D.P.S.
McCutcheon2, N. Gregersen2, J. Mork2, Y.M. He3, Y. He3, C.Y Lu3, J.W. Pan3
1
Technische Physik, University of Würzburg, am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
2
Department of Photonics Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Orsteds Plads, 2800
Kgs. Lyngby, Lyngby, Denmark
3
Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Modern
Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,Anhui 230026, China, Hefei, China
We investigate the influence of time jitter, phonons and spectral diffusion, as well as the excitation
conditions on the photon interference properties of single InAs QDs embedded in optical
microcavities.
TUE2s-I-03 10:30
Invited
Nanowire Quantum Dots for Quantum Optics
Val Zwiller
Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
We demonstrate the generation of single photons as well as pairs of entangled photons with
quantum dots in semiconducting nanowires, we show applications to quantum optics including
generation, manipulation and detection of light at the nanoscale.
Oral
TUE2s-O-04 11:00
Short-range surface plasmonics on atomically flat thin gold platelets: Nanofocusing
down to 60 nm at λ=800 nm
Bettina Frank1, Thomas Weiss1, Philip Kahl2, Michael Horn-von Hoegen2, Frank Meyer zu Heringdorf2, Liwei
Fu3, Wilfried Sigle4, Harald Giessen1
1
4th Physics Institute, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2
Faculty of Physics and Center for Nanointegration, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg,
Germany
3
Institute of applied Optics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
4
We excite and focus short-range surface plasmon polaritons down to 60 nm using electrochemically
grown atomically flat single crystalline gold platelets on silicon substrates. We observe short range
plasmons and nanofocusing using two-photon-photoemission electron microscopy.
Oral
TUE2s-O-05 11:15
Metasurfaces Meet a Plasmonic Spiral for Super Functional Lensing
Grisha Spektor, Asaf David, Bergin Gjonaj, Guy Bartal, Meir Orenstein
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
We realized metasurface spiral plasmonic lens which solves multiple efficiency and functionality
issues of conventional plasmonic lenses. The metasurface lens achieves efficient high contrast
linear-polarization-independent plasmonic focusing and efficient high contrast circular dichroism.
TUE2s-O-06 11:30
Oral
Two-dimensional atomic crystals enable subdiffractional optical imaging
Peining Li, Thomas Taubner
Institute of Physics (IA), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
We experimentally demonstrate that two-dimensional atomic crystals, such as graphene and
hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), enable near-field optical subwavelength imaging.
TUE2s-I-07 11:45
Invited
Control of physical phenomena with non-local dielectric environments
Thejaswi Tumkur1, Vanessa Peters1, John Kitur1, Yuri Barnakov2, Carl Bonner1, Alexander Poddubny3, 4,
Evgenii Narimanov5, Mikhail Noginov1
1
Center for Materials Research, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, United States
2
Azimuth Corporation, Dayton, United States
3
ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia
4
Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
5
Birck Nanotechnology Center, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, United States
We demonstarte that a variety of phenomena, including spontaneous and stimulated emission,
scattering, Förster energy transfer, wetting, and chemical reactions, can be controlled by non-local
dielectric environments and the density of photonic states.
Tuesday, 6 January 2015 - - 12:15 - 16:15
- Break Chair:
Oral Session - TUE3o - Technology Talk by Neaspec
Chair:
Tuesday, 6 January 2015 - - 17:00 - 18:30
- Light Snack and soft drinks provided Chair:
Tuesday, 6 January 2015 - Foyer - 17:00 - 18:30
Poster Session - TUE4f - Poster Session I
Chair:Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Jarlath McKenna, IOP Publishing, Bristol, United Kingdom
Poster
TUE4f-P-01
Lateral Forces Acting on Particles Near a Surface Under Circularly Polarized
Illumination
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño1, Nader Engheta2, Alejandro Martínez3, Anatoly V. Zayats1
1
King’s College London, London, United Kingdom
2
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
3
Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
A dipole in close proximity to a surface experiences electromagnetic forces perpendicular to it. If
the dipole is circularly polarized, intriguing lateral forces, parallel to the surface, also exist,
switchable with the polarization.
Poster
TUE4f-P-02
Perforated SOI Microring Resonators for Optical Biosensing
Raimondas Petruskevicius1, Darius Urbonas1, Martynas Gabalis1, Konstantinas Vaskevicius1, Armandas
Balcytis2, Saulius Juodkazis2
1
Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania
2
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
We suggest that implementation of sub-wavelength structures into silicon-on-insulator (SOI)
microring resonators increases the light-matter interaction and the sensitivity of biosensors. The
recent results on fabrication of micro wheel resonators are presented.
Poster
TUE4f-P-03
Quantum Emitters near Layered Plasmonic Nanostructures
Anders Pors, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark
We introduce a general numerical framework for calculating the contributions of emission,
dissipation, and SPP excitation on decay rates of quantum emitters near layered plasmonic
nanostructures, particularly discussing the case of gap-plasmon resonators.
Poster
TUE4f-P-04
Nonlinear Epsilon-Near-Zero metamaterials
Daniele Faccio1, Rishad Kaipurath1, Monika Pietrzyk2, Lucia Caspani1, Thomas Roger1, Andrea Di Falco2
1
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2
University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Metamaterial structures composed of Silver-Glass layers exhibit epsilon-near-zero behaviour with a
huge Kerr optical nonlinearity, n_2=1e-10 cm^2/W. The measurements are in agreement with
theoretical predictions and pave the way to extreme, non-perturbative nonlinear optics.
Poster
TUE4f-P-05
Coherent control of negative refraction in graphene
Daniele Faccio, Shraddha Rao, Ashley Lyons, Thomas Roger, Matteo Clerici
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
We demonstrate efficient phase conjugation and negative refraction in a 30-layer graphene film
using only a single pump beam. The same geometry also allows to coherently control and modulate
the amplitude of the output beams.
Poster
TUE4f-P-06
Excitons in a mirror: Bandstructure tuning of 2D materials
Jan Mertens1, Jeremy Baumberg1, Yumeng Shi2, Hui Ying Yang2, Alejandro Molina-Sanchez3, Ludger Wirtz3
1
NanoPhotonics Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United
Kingdom
2
Pillar of Engineering, University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Singapore
3
Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
We report the formation of `mirror biexcitons` in monolayers of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) on
gold substrates. Excitons couple to their mirror image in the underlying gold and create an optical
equivalent to MoS2 bilayers.
Poster
TUE4f-P-07
Negative Refraction of the Graphene Barium Ferrite Composite in the UHF Band
Karen Oganisian, Wieslaw Strek
Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research Polish Academy of Science, Wroclaw, Poland
The graphene barium ferrite composite reveals the electric and magnetic resonances accompanied
by negative values of permittivity and permeability in the overlapped frequency range leading to the
negative refraction in the UHF band.
Poster
TUE4f-P-08
Designing metallic nanocavities for enhanced Four-Wave Mixing
Euclides Almeida, Yehiam Prior
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Four-wave-mixing from rectangular metallic nanocavities in a thin gold film is observed
experimentally and discussed theoretically, and the cavity shape is optimized to provide
enhancement of more than an order of magnitude.
Poster
TUE4f-P-09
Magnesium for UV plasmonics and chemical reaction sensing
Florian Sterl, Andreas Tittl, Nikolai Strohfeldt, Ramon Walter, Harald Giessen
4th Physics Institute and Research Center SCoPE, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
We fabricate magnesium nanostructures with relatively strong resonances in the UV-region.
Furthermore, we optically monitor chemical reactions taking place on plasmonic nanoparticles of
Mg and other materials when exposed to various controlled gas compositions.
Poster
TUE4f-P-10
Tunable and switchable Faraday rotation in magnetoplasmonic waveguides: Classical
harmonic oscillator modeling
Dominik Floess1, Thomas Weiss1, Harald Giessen1, Sergei Tikhodeev2
1
4th Physics Insitute and Research Centre SCOPE, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2
A. M. Prokhorov General Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate enhancement of thin-film Faraday rotation in
nanostructures exhibiting waveguide-plasmon-polaritons. Using a classical harmonic oscillator
model, we are able to obtain profound understanding of the magneto-optical response of the hybrid
structures.
Poster
TUE4f-P-11
Design rules for active magnetoplasmonic metasurfaces
Kristof Lodewijks1, Nicolò Maccaferri2, Tavakol Pakizeh3, Randy K. Dumas4, Irina Zubritskaya1, Johan
Åkerman4, Paolo Vavassori2, 5, Alexandre Dmitriev1
1
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
2
CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
3
K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
4
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
5
IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
Magnetoplasmonics offers a versatile smart toolbox in the quest for actively tunable metasurfaces.
Here we present design rules for metasurfaces based on magnetoplasmonic nanoantennas that allow
for advanced control of light polarization states.
Poster
TUE4f-P-12
Enhanced performance of plasmonic biosensors using hybrid plasmonic mode in the
Kretschmann configuration.
Mitradeep Sarkar1, Julien Moreau1, Mondher Besbes1, Jean-François Bryche1, 2, Aurore Olivéro1, Michael
Canva1
1
Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Insitut d'Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, France
2
Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France
Hybrid Lattice Plasmon mode in nanostructured biochips, resulting from coupling of propagating
and localized plasmons, shows promising high local field intensity and tunability. These biochips
can be advantageously used in SPR and SERS.
Poster
TUE4f-P-13
Large-area low-cost palladium-based plasmonic perfect absorber for hydrogen
sensing
Ramon Walter, Andreas Tittl, Nikolai Strohfeld, Harald Giessen
Palladium-based perfect absorbers are promising candidates for highly sensitive hydrogen detectors.
Here, we present a straightforward, low-cost, and reliable method to produce such devices by using
colloidal lithography in combination with a dry-etching process.
Poster
TUE4f-P-14
Mesoscopic self-collimation in arbitrary directions
Giovanni Magno1, Antoine Monmayrant2, 3, Marco Grande1, Giovanna Calò1, Olivier Gauthier-Lafaye2, 3,
Vincenzo Petruzzelli1
1
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell'Informazione (DEI), Via Re David 200, Politecnico di
Bari, 70125 Bari., Bari, Italy
2
CNRS, LAAS, 7 avenue du colonel Roche, F-31400 Toulouse, France, Toulouse, France
3
Université de Toulouse, LAAS, F-31400 Toulouse, France, Toulouse, France
We demonstrate numerically that Mesoscopic photonic crystals support mesoscopic self-collimation
in arbitrary directions not limited to high symmetry directions. Moreover, achieving mesoscopic
self-collimation below the light line, to outwit the out-of-plane losses, is also possible.
Poster
TUE4f-P-15
3D Printed All-Dielectric Metamaterial
Dmitry Isakov, Qin Lei, Patrick Grant
University of Oxford, Department of Materials, Oxford, United Kingdom
We present an all-dielectric metamaterial comprising 3D-printed slab with graded and anisotropic
dielectric permittivity. By designing the arrangement of the dielectric materials, the frequency and
magnitude of Mie-resonances can be manipulated to provide metamaterial characteristics.
Poster
TUE4f-P-16
Phase-change materials for non-volatile, low-loss IR antenna resonance tuning
with ultrafast reversibility
Ann-Katrin Michel1, Dmitri Chrigrin1, Peter Zalden2, Aaron Lindenberg2, Thomas Taubner1
1
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
2
Stanford University, Stanford, United States
The resonance position of IR antennas can be changed by reversibly switching the refractive index
made from phase-change material cover layers. We find remarkable resonance shifts of up to about
18% change in center frequency.
Poster
TUE4f-P-17
Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer between Metallic Metasurfaces
Jin Dai, Sergey Dyakov, Min Yan
School of Information and Technology,KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden
We numerically demonstrate the possibility to enhance radiative heat transfer between metallic
plates over a wide range of frequencies in the near-field regime by nanostructuring the surfaces.
Poster
TUE4f-P-18
Infrared Beam-steering Using Mechanically Modulated Graphene Monolayer
Mohamed Farhat1, Pai-Yen Chen2
1
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, thuwal-jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2
Wayne State University, Detroit, United States
We propose a graphene-based infrared beam-former based on the concept of surface leaky-wave.
The excitation of infrared surface plasmon polaritons over an acoustically modulated
one-atom-thick graphene monolayer is typically associated with intrinsically slow light.
Poster
TUE4f-P-19
Rigorous numerical analysis of plasmonically enhanced chiroptical response
Thomas Weiss, Maxim Nesterov, Xinghui Yin, Martin Schäferling, Harald Giessen
We present thorough numerical investigations of the electrodynamical interaction between chiral
media and chiral plasmonic structures. We find that the circular dichroism signal can be enhanced
by a factor of more than one hundred.
Poster
TUE4f-P-20
High Order modes in Cavity Resonator Integrated Grating Filters (CRIGFs)
Romain LABERDESQUE1, Olivier GAUTHIER-LAFAYE1, Henri CAMON1, Antoine MONMAYRANT1,
Marlène PETIT2, Olivier DEMICHEL2, benoît CLUZEL2
1
PHOTO, CNRS, LAAS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche, F31400 Toulouse, France, Toulouse, France
2
Optique de Champ Proche, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, Université de
Bourgogne, 9 avenue Alain Savary, F21078 Dijon, France, Dijon, France
We report experimental observation of high-order modes inside Cavity Resonator Integrated
Grating Filters exhibiting narrow-line spectral resonance associated with complex spatial profile.
Combining coupled-wave modeling and Moiré analysis, we can predict and control these modes.
Poster
TUE4f-P-21
Bio-Inspired Nanophotonics – Circular Polarisation in Scarab Beetles
Luke McDonald, Ewan Finlayson, Peter Vukusic
University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
We present the spectral and angle-dependent optical properties from several beetles of the genus
Chrysina that reflect circularly polarised light. We detail their chiral nanoarchitectures and the
circularly polarising features to which they give rise.
Poster
TUE4f-P-22
Narrowband resonances in optically coupled nanorods for ultra-sensitive biosensing
Arkadi Chipouline, Egor Khaidarov, Thomas Khaidarov
Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena,
Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743, Jena, Germany, Jena, Germany
We present recently obtained results with the 1D chains of optically coupled nanoresonators
exhibiting ultra narrowband resonances. Ultrahigh sensitivity is expected to be enough for reliable
detection of exosomal content for express selective cancer diagnostics.
Poster
TUE4f-P-23
Hysteresis behaviour and narrowband resonances in chains of active nonlinear
nanoresonator
Arkadi Chipouline2, Sergey Fedorov1, 3, Nikolay Rosanov1, 3
1
1National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (University
ITMO), 197101, St.Petersburg, Russia, St.Petersburg, Russia
2
2Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, Jena, Germany
3
Vavilov State Optical Institute, 199034 St.Petersburg, Russia, St.Petersburg, Russia
We propose to use hysteresis in a 1D system of active nonlinear nanoresonators to achieve the
Narrowband Resonances. Combination of Wood anomaly, retardation, and nonlinearity provides
platform for light nanosources and highly sensitive sensors.
Poster
TUE4f-P-24
Microparticles Manipulation by Nonparaxial Accelerating Beams
Ran Schley, Ido Kaminer, Elad Greenfield, Rivka Bekenstein, Yaakov Lumer, Mordechai Segev
Physics Department and Solid State Institute, Technion, 32000 Haifa, Israel, Haifa, Israel
We introduce loss-proof shape-invariant nonparaxial accelerating beams that overcome both
diffraction and absorption, and demonstrate their use in acceleration of microparticles inside liquids
along curved trajectories that are significantly steeper than ever achieved
Poster
TUE4f-P-25
An Algorithmic Approach to Plasmonic Optical Filter Design
Amit Agrawal1, 2, Matthew Davis3, Ting Xu1, 2, Christopher Bohn1, Henri Lezec1
1
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, United States
2
Maryland Nanocenter, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
3
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse,
United States
We demonstrate experimental realization of an aperiodic slit-groove plasmonic device that exhibits
angle-selectable RGB color response. The structure, designed using an optimization algorithm,
demonstrates high quality-factor and optical-contrast while exhibiting a full-color optical response.
Poster
TUE4f-P-26
Transmission of Light across a Gold Thin film through Gold Nanospheres
Kazuki Fujii1, Ryushi Fujimura1, Masayuki Shimojo2, Kotaro Kajikawa1
1
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
2
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Transmission across a gold thin film through gold nanospheres immobilzied on the film is
observed. It is observed at the wavelengths in the absence of localized surface plasmon resonance.
Poster
TUE4f-P-27
Blackbody Metamaterials using a Lotus-Leaf as a Bio-template
Yuusuke Ebihara1, Masayuki Shimojo2, Kotaro Kajikawa1
1
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
2
Shibarura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Blackbody metamaterials are fabricated on a leaf of lotus covered with 30-nm thick spattered gold
film. The non-reflection property originates from the fine surface structure (macaroni-like nanorod
structures) of lotus leaves.
Poster
TUE4f-P-28
3D terahertz metamaterials with asymmetric transmission -- Cancelled -Maria Farsari, Aggelos Xomalis, George Kenanakis, Alexandros Selimis, Maria Kafesaki
IESL-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
Contribution withdrawn.
Poster
TUE4f-P-29
Funnel vortex beams with arbitrary shape
Ioannis Chremmos
Max Planck Institut for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
Optical funnel beams with arbitrary shapes are introduced and designed through a combination of
Fresnel
diffraction and ray optics theory. Such beams can be very useful in the optical manipulation and
funneling of particles.
Poster
TUE4f-P-30
Metamaterials Photonic Crystal Waveguide Structure Sensors
Mohammed Shabat, Dena El-Amassi
Islamic University of Gaza, Gaza, Egypt
In this work, the sensitivity of TE polarized wave in a multilayer one dimensional photonic crystal
consisting of alternate right-handed material and left-handed materials has been investigated
theoretically with various physical parameters of the structure.
Poster
TUE4f-P-31
Ultrafast Optical Switching of Topological Insulator Plasmonic Metamaterial
Stefano Vezzoli1, 2, Giorgio Adamo1, 2, Zeng Wang1, 2, Venkatram Nalla1, 2, Azat Sulaev2, Handong Sun1, 2,
Lan Wang2, Cesare Soci1, 2, Nikolay Zheludev1, 2, 3
1
Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
Singapore, Singapore
2
Division of Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
Singapore
3
Optoelectronics Research Centre & Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of
Southampton, Southampron, United Kingdom
We report that resonant plasmonic response of metamaterial fabricated on the surface of topological
insulator Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.8Se1.2 can be modulated by optical injection of free carriers.
Sub-picosecond switch-on and picosecond switch-off transient response is observed
Poster
TUE4f-P-32
100 THz bandwidth all-optical switching using coherent absorption in plasmonic
metamaterials
Venkatram Nalla1, João Valente2, Handong Sun1, Nikolay Zheludev1, 2
1
Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, 637371,
2
Optoelectronics Research Centre and Centre for Photonic Metamaterials, University of
Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, United Kingdom
Using femtosecond laser with variable pulse duration we probe the limits of switching that exploits
coherent absorption in nanostructured gold films. Switching contrast ratios of 7:1 with a modulation
bandwidth exceeding 100 THz has been observed.
Poster
TUE4f-P-33
Independent Control of the Electromagnetic Properties in Magnetic Composites.
Laura Parke1, Ian Youngs2, Roy Sambles1, Alastair Hibbins1
1
2
DSTL, Salusibury, United Kingdom
By controlling the particle size of NiZn ferrite powder within a polymer (PTFE) matrix, the
electromagnetic properties can be tailored to create bespoke effective medium electromagnetic
parameters for a given volume concentration.
Poster
TUE4f-P-34
Independently Controlling Permittivity and Permeability in Broadband, Low-Loss,
Isotropic Metamaterials at Microwave Frequencies.
Laura Parke1, Ian Youngs2, Ian Hooper1, Alastair Hibbins1, Roy Sambles1
1
2
DSTL, Salisbury, United Kingdom
A broadband, high refractive index metamaterial has been designed and fabricated that allows
independent control of both its effective permeability and its effective permittivity at microwave
frequencies.
Poster
TUE4f-P-35
Plasmon wave function of graphene nanoribbons
Iván Silveiro1, Juan Manuel Plaza Ortega1, Javier García de Abajo1, 2
1
ICFO-Spain, Castelldefels, Spain
2
ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
We extract a universal plasmon wave function for graphene ribbons and show that dimers and
arrays in co-planar and/or vertically displaced configurations are well described through a
semi-analytical model relying on that wave function.
Poster
TUE4f-P-36
Robust Perfect Lensing Using a Double-Negative Metasurface
Gilad Rosenblatt, Meir Orenstein
Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Israel, Haifa, Israel
We prove that perfect lensing can be realized at a detection point embedded within a doublenegative metasurface. The unbounded resolution is not deteriorated by media loss and excitation
frequency offsets – showing promise for future application.
Poster
TUE4f-P-37
Broadband, giant optical activity in a chiral metamaterial
Ben Tremain1, Ana Díaz-Rubio2, Jorge Carbonell2, José Sánchez-Dehesa2, Alastair Hibbins1
1
University of Exeter, EXETER, United Kingdom
2
Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
We present the first experimental verification of broadband, giant optical activity of an array of
metallic crosses above rotated complementary crosses. We show the bandwidth of strong
transmission can be increased via a multilayered system.
Poster
TUE4f-P-38
Thermal near-infrared emission by resonant structures
Alexander Roberts1, Manohar Chirumamilla Chirumamilla2, Kjeld Pedersen2, Sergey I Bozhevolnyi1
1
Institute of Technology & Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrs Allé 1, 5230
Odense, Denmark, Odense, Denmark
2
Department of Physics & Nanotechnology, Aalborg University, Skjernvej 4A, 9220 Aalborg Øst,
Denmark
Spectral emission and thermal stability of continuous Fabry-Perot resonators is investigated at
elevated temperatures,
shown to elicit features related to the reflectivity and to be suitable for the tailoring of narrowband
emission
in near-infrared.
Poster
TUE4f-P-39
Flying Electromagnetic Toroids: propagation properties and light-matter interactions
Tim Raybould1, Vassili Fedotov1, Nikitas Papasimakis1, Ian Youngs2, Nikolay Zheludev1
1
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton,, Southampton, United Kingdom
2
DSTL, Salisbury, United Kingdom
We report on the study of the time-space localized solutions to Maxwell’s equations with toroidal
topology that have intriguing properties and interact with interfaces and nanostructures in a peculiar
fashion.
Poster
TUE4f-P-40
Hotspot-mediated nonlinear control of multifrequency plasmonic nanoantennas
Otto Muskens1, Martina Abb1, Yudong Wang1, 2, Kees de Groot2
1
Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, United Kingdom
2
Nano Group, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Southampton, United Kingdom
Resonant pumping of a nonlinear substrate through the near-field hotspot of a plasmonic antenna is
demonstrated and is used to modulate the response of another plasmonic mode, corresponding to an
antenna with perpendicular orientation.
Poster
TUE4f-P-41
Image Processing Using Coherent Absorption
Maria Papaioannou1, Eric Plum1, Edward T. F. Rogers1, 2, Nikolay I. Zheludev1, 3
1
Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
2
Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
3
Singapore
We demonstrate logical operations with two images using coherent interaction of optical beams on
thin films and metasurfaces. The new coherent image processing is illustrated by mode selection
and deletion for spatial mode multiplexing.
Poster
TUE4f-P-42
Optical Cloaking with Spatially Dispersive Hyperbolic Metamaterials
Alexander S. Shalin1, Pavel Giznburg1, 2, Alexey A. Orlov1, Ivan Iorsh1, Pavel A. Belov1, Yuri S. Kivshar1, 3,
Anatoly V. Zayats2
1
ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia
2
King's College London, London, United Kingdom
3
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Nearly perfect concealing of arbitrary objects in hyperbolic metamaterial acting as an
alignment-free cloak is proposed. The scattering suppression relies on the combination of normal
and additional modes simultaneously existing in a spatially dispersive material.
Poster
TUE4f-P-43
Randomly Addressable Reconfigurable Photonic Metamaterials
Pablo Cencillo1, Jun-Yu Ou1, João Valente1, Eric Plum1, Nikolay Zheludev1, 2
1
2
Singapore
We report on randomly addressable reconfigurable metamaterials that can be driven by thermal,
Lorentz or Coulomb forces. Simultaneous spatial and temporal modulation of optical material
properties enables various metadevices on demand.
Poster
TUE4f-P-44
Plasmonic Mode Coupling in a Nanoimprinted Metamaterial
Lin Dong1, Calin Hrelescu1, Thomas A. Klar1, Michael Haslinger2, Jürgen Danzberger2, Iris Bergmair2
1
Institute of Applied Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Strasse 69,, Linz,
Austria
2
Functional Surfaces and Nanostructures, PROFACTOR GmbH, Im Stadtgut A2,, Steyr-Gleink,
Austria
We experimentally demonstrate plasmonic mode coupling in a large area, two-part fishnet structure
made by nanoimprint lithography. Efficient polarization conversion in the visible was observed,
showing order of magnitude larger conversion efficiency than ordinary fishnets.
Poster
TUE4f-P-45
Plasmonic metamaterials based on metallic nano-elements with three-fold rotational
symmetry arranged in hexagonal lattices
Mircea Giloan1, Robert Gutt2, Gavril Saplacan1
1
Company for Applied Informatics, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2
Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Metallic nano-resonators with three-fold rotational symmetry are used to design various meta-atoms
distributed in hexagonal lattices separated by dielectric films. The resulted metamaterial slabs have
negative effective refractive index for linearly or circularly polarized light.
Poster
TUE4f-P-46
Gold nanosponges as novel plasmonic materials
Cynthia Vidal1, Calin Hrelescu1, Thomas A. Klar1, Dong Wang2, Peter Schaaf2
1
Institute of Applied Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Strasse 69,, Linz,
Austria
2
Institute of Materials Engineering and Institute of Micro- and Nanotechnologies MacroNano®,
Technische Universität Ilmenau,, Ilmenau, Germany
We present the correlation between structural and optical properties of three-dimensionally gold/air
percolated nanoparticles, nanosponges. The scattering spectra depend only weakly on size and outer
shape, but are decisively influenced by the inner mesoporous structure.
Poster
TUE4f-P-47
Resonant Response of Superconducting Metamaterial at Optical Frequencies
Kaveh Delfanazari1, Vassili Savinov1, Otto Muskens2, Nikolay Zheludev1, 3
1
Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom,, Southampton, United Kingdom
2
Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom,,
Southampton, United Kingdom
3
Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang
Link, 637371, Singapore,, Nanyang, Singapore
Resonant electromagnetic response of niobium metamaterial in the optical part of the spectrum, i.e.
above the superconducting bandgap, shows strong temperature variation near the critical
temperature. Plasmonic mechanism of the optical response is discussed.
Poster
TUE4f-P-48
Plasmon-enhanced nonradiative energy transfer in a hybrid quantum well-quantum
dot system
Luke Higgins1, Vasilios Karanikolas1, Cristian Marocico1, Alan Bell1, Peter Parbrook2, Louise Bradley1
1
School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
2
Tyndall National Institute, Lee Maltings, Prospect Row, Cork, Ireland
Metal nanoparticle arrays of silver nanoboxes fabricated by helium-ion lithography are used to
demonstrate plasmon-enhanced non-radiative energy transfer from an InGaN/GaN quantum well to
CdSe/ZnS quantum dots embedded in a layer of PMMA.
Poster
TUE4f-P-49
Resonant and Photoluminescent Properties of Single-crystalline Aluminum
Nanostructures on Semiconducting GaAs Substrate for Ultra-Violet Plasmonics
Hsuan-Wei Liu1, Fan-Cheng Lin2, Shi-Wei Lin1, Jau-Yang Wu1, Sheng-Di Lin1, Jer-Shing Huang2
1
Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2
Department of Chemistry, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
We report the first use of single-crystalline aluminium nanostructures for ultraviolet plasmonics.
Linear scattering and nonlinear photoluminescence mapping on nanoslits arrays and nanoholes are
studied. Peculiar polarization characteristics of aluminum TPPL are reported and explained.
Poster
TUE4f-P-50
Plasmonic Perfect Absorbers for Efficient Photocatalytic Processes
Charlene Ng1, 2, Daniel Gomez1, 2
1
CSIRO Australia, Clayton, Australia
2
Melbourne Nanofabrication Centre, Clayton, Australia
We demonstrate plasmonic metamaterials exhibiting near unity absorption for the production of
hot-electron photocurrents. We discuss the potential application of these photocurrents in
photocatalytic applications such as the decomposition of organic molecules and water splitting.
Poster
TUE4f-P-51
Broadband Metasurfaces with Simultaneous Control of Phase and Amplitude
Mitchell Kenney1, Lixiang Liu1, 4, Xueqian Zhang1, 2, Xiaoqiang Su2, Ningning Xu3, Chunmei Ouyang2,
Yunlong Shi4, Jiaguang Han2, Weili Zhang2, 3, Shuang Zhang1
1
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom
2
Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China, Tianjin, China
3
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
74078, USA, Stillwater, United States
4
Institute of Solid State Physics, Shanxi Datong University, Datong 037009, China, Datong, China
Metasurface gratings, with simultaneous phase and amplitude control, were used to manipulate the
intensity of diffractive orders. The design is simple, robust and broadband at ~1THz. Such work can
be utilised for engineering complex holograms.
Poster
TUE4f-P-52
Optically controlled near-field THz diffraction
Rayko Stantchev1, Samuel Hornett1, Peter Hobson1, 2, Euan Hendry1
1
School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, EX4 4QL, Exeter, United Kingdom
2
QinetiQ Limited, Cody Technology Park, Ively Road, GU14 0LX, Farnborough, United Kingdom
Semiconductors can be switched from dielectrics to metals through electron-hole pair
photoexcitation. Using a patterned excitation-beam, we demonstrate that this principal can be used
to steer THz, and also be applied for subwavelength THz imaging.
Poster
TUE4f-P-53
Manipulating Microwaves using Metamaterials and Metasurfaces -- Cancelled -Alastair Hibbins
Poster
TUE4f-P-54
Light emission enhancement of quantum dot luminescence via stacking asymmetric
split-ring metamaterials
Tien Lin Shen, Tsung Sheng Kao, Hao Chung Kuo
Department of Photonic & Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Chiao Tung
University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Coupling of nanostructured metal with quantum dot have been widely used in nanolasers,
bio-sensing devices. We designed a tunanble resonance with stacking asymmetric split-ring
metamaterial, and fluorescence of quntum dot can be enhanced over 2.5.
Poster
TUE4f-P-55
Characterization of chaotic photonic crystal cavities in the time and spatial domain
by ultrafast photomodulation spectroscopy
Roman Bruck1, Andrea Di Falco2, Andrea Fratalocchi3, Otto Muskens1
1
Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
2
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
3
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal,
Saudi Arabia
Chaotic photonic crystal cavities feature multitudes of high-Q resonances and are thus of interest for
sensing and telecommunication applications. Employing ultrafast photomodulation spectroscopy,
we characterize individual resonance lifetimes and spatial characteristics of such cavities.
Poster
TUE4f-P-56
Resonantly phase-matched Josephson junction traveling wave parametric amplifier
Kevin O'Brien1, Chris Macklin2, Irfan Siddiqi2, Xiang Zhang1, 3
1
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California,, Berkeley, United States
2
Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of California,, Berkeley,
United States
3
Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
We propose a technique to phase-match Josephson-junction traveling wave parametric amplifiers to
achieve high gain over a broad bandwidth for applications such as the multiplexed readout of quantum
coherent circuits.
Poster
TUE4f-P-57
Ultraviolet negative refraction and flat lensing of planar multilayer metal-dielectric
optical metamaterials
Ruben Maas, James Parsons, Ewold Verhagen, Albert Polman
Center for Nanophotonics, FOM-Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Double-periodic Ag/TiO2 multilayer metamaterials show an omnidirectional UV response with
Bloch harmonics with both negative and positive phase velocities. A flat lens geometry is presented
with excellent in- and out-of-plane focusing in the UV
Poster
TUE4f-P-58
The wideband spherical Luneburg lens based on an artificial-dielectric microwave
metamaterial
Igor Meshkovskiy1, Valeri Akimov2, Pavel Belov1, Stanislav Glybovski1, Dmitry Filonov1
1
University ITMO, St. Petersburg, Russia
2
St. Petersburg state polytechnic university, St. Petersburg, Russia
We describe a novel wideband spherical Luneburg lens operating at microwaves. The required
gradient index variation is achieved by employing the non-resonant metamaterial consisting of
radial closely-spaced thin dielectric rods.
Poster
TUE4f-P-59
Electrically Switched Active Metamaterials
Jamie Stokes
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Electrical current switching of 100nm of Ge2Sb2Te5 on glass. Optical reflectance is measured in
both amorphous and crystalline states and angular reflectance is shown for a FIB etched 1200nm
period grating.
Poster
TUE4f-P-60
The Aharonov-Bohm-Like Effect in Plasmonics
Vassili Savinov1, Nikolay I. Zheludev1, 2
1
2
2Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
Singapore
By viewing plasmon waves in metallic waveguides as propagating electric dipoles we show that
according to laws of quantum mechanics they will acquire additional phase when propagating
through space with static magnetic field.
Poster
TUE4f-P-61
Purcell Enhancement of Free-Electron Spontaneous Light Emission Using
Meta-surfaces
Jin-Kyu So1, Giorgio Adamo2, Kevin F. MacDonald1, Nikolay I. Zheludev1, 2
1
2
Singapore
We experimentally demonstrate that spontaneous light emission from free electrons can be
enhanced using resonant meta-surfaces in much the same way as spontaneous emission from atomic
electrons is enhanced by placing them in resonant cavities.
Poster
TUE4f-P-62
Electrically Driven Coherent Surface Plasmon Polariton Source at the Nanoscale
Dmitry Fedyanin1, Aleksey Arsenin1, Alexey Krasavin2, Anatoly Zayats2
1
Laboratory of Nanooptics and Plasmonics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,
Dolgoprudny, Russia
2
Laboratory of Nanooptics and Plasmonics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,
Dolgoprudny, Russia
We propose a novel concept for the electrically driven coherent surface plasmon polariton source
integrated on a chip with the mode volume less than 0.033λ3 and the threshold current density
below 1 kA/cm2.
Poster
TUE4f-P-63
Tunable plasmonic properties of rounded object-arrays achievable via
interferometric illumination of colloid sphere monolayers
Áron Sipos, Anikó Somogyi, Gábor Szabó, Mária Csete
Department of Optics and Quantum Electronics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Interferometric illumination of colloid sphere monolayers results in complex plasmonic structures
with tunable near-field and spectral properties, which originates from their predesigned geometrical
parameters, as periodicities and nano-object properties.
Poster
TUE4f-P-64
Two dimensional nano hole array for structured illumination optical imaging
Rainer Riesenberg, Paul Petruck
Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany
Planar nano hole arrays are prepared. In case of a coherent illumination the light cones of the holes
interfere and generate a spot pattern. The 3D interference pattern is used for structured illumination
optical microscopy.
Poster
TUE4f-P-65
Electromagnetics of Media with ε=µ
Rene Topf, Martin McCall, Paul Kinsler
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Transformation Optics media are completely described by a direction/position-dependent refractive
index that is independent of polarization. We demonstrate this for a cloak and for twist
deformations, showing that ε=µ is generally in-sufficient for impedance matching.
Poster
TUE4f-P-66
Free Space Optics for High Speed Outdoor Wireless Communications
Armin Jooshesh1, Afshin Jooshesh2
1
Islamic Azad University, Robat Karim Branch, Tehran, Iran
2
Victoria University, BC, Victoria, Canada
FSO systems, are examined in this paper. Performance results are presented using a channel model
based on Beer’s law. These show the potential of optical wireless systems for broadband wireless
communications.
Poster
TUE4f-P-67
Black-body metamaterial lasers
Changxu Liu1, Jianfeng Huang2, Silvia Masala3, Erkki Alarousu3, Yu Han2, Andrea Fratalocchi1
1
PRIMALIGHT, Faculty of Electrical Engineering; Applied Mathematics and Computational
Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
2
, Chemistry Department, Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah
University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
3
Solar and Photovoltaics Engineering Research Center, Division of Physical Sciences and
Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
We designed and realized e new type of laser based on a black-body metamaterial composed of
random metallic nanostructures with an unconventional shape.
Poster
TUE4f-P-68
Plasmon Induced Hot Carriers in Metallic Nanoparticles
Alejandro Manjavacas, Jun Liu, Vikram Kulkarni, Peter Nordlander
Rice University, Houston, United States
We analyze the plasmon-induced hot carrier generation in metallic nanoparticles using a simple
theoretical model in which the electrons are described as free particles and the plasmon dynamics is
obtained through Fermi’s “golden rule”.
Poster
TUE4f-P-69
A Discrete Model of the Evanescent Light Emission from Ultra-Thin Nanolayers.
Michael Gankin, Edward E. Tannous, Igor Lapsker, Alex Laihtman, Aaron Peled
HIT, Holon, Israel
A discrete model of the Differential Evanescent Light Intensity technique was developed to
calculate nanolayers thicknesses from the evanescent light intensity captured from optical
waveguides.The model was used for deposited ultra-thin Pd nanometric layers.
Poster
TUE4f-P-70
Enhanced Radiative Rate from Single Quantum Emitter by Plasmonic Grating
Decoupler
Arunandan Kumar1, J.C. Weeber1, A. Bouhelier1, H. Frederich1, F. Eloi2, S. Buil2, X. Quélin2, M. Nasilowski3,
B. Dubertret3, J.P. Hermier2, 4, G. Colas des Francs1
1
Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon Cedex, France
2
Groupe d’Etude de la Matière Condensée, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,
CNRS UMR8635, 45 avenue des Etats-Unis, 78035, Versailles, France
3
Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etude des Matériaux, CNRS UMR8213, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin,
75231, Paris, France
4
Institut Universitaire de France, 103, bd Saint-Michel, 75005, Paris, France
We demonstrate spatially uniform enhanced radiative rate of single quantum dot (QD) emitter using
grating decoupler on thin gold and silver films by efficient extraction of light coupled to surface
plasmon.
Poster
TUE4f-P-71
Applications of metallic nanoparticles for optical nanotechnology depends on
plasmonic properties of nanoparticles, characteristics of radiation and surrounding
medium. The results of comparative analysis of nanoparticle properties allow
selecting their parameters for photonic applications.
Victor Pustovalov
Belarussian National Technucal University, Minsk, Belarus
B.I.Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Belarus
Applications of metallic nanoparticles for optical nanotechnology depends on plasmonic properties
of nanoparticles, characteristics of radiation and surrounding medium. The results of comparative
analysis of nanoparticle properties allow selecting their parameters for photonic applications.
Poster
TUE4f-P-72
Plasmonic Enhanced Schottky Detectors Based on Internal Photoemission in Nano
Pyramids for Near IR Regime
Boris Desiaotv1, Ilya Goykhman1, Noa Mazurski1, Joseph Shappir1, Jacob Khurgin2, Uriel Levy1
1
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
2
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
We demonstrate the detection of sub-bandgap light in silicon nano pyramid using the process of
internal photoemission in Schottky diode. The quantum efficiency is enhanced by using metal
coated silicon nano pyramids.
Poster
TUE4f-P-73
Hybrid Plasmonic-Atomic Coupled Resonant System
Liron Stern, Meir Grajower, Uriel Levy
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
We experimentally demonstrate the interaction between a Surface Plasmon resonance and an atomic
alkali vapor's resonance. The interplay between the atomic line structure and the palsmonic
resonance as function of the coupling conditions is demonstrated.
Poster
TUE4f-P-74
Numerical method to study metamaterial composites
Takamichi Terao
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan
Metamaterial photonic crystals (MPC) composed of dispersive left-handed materials and righthanded medium were investigated numerically. Suitable numerical techniques to analyze the
electromagnetic properties of any dispersive metamaterial composites were proposed.
Poster
TUE4f-P-75
Plasmonic-Enhanced Photon Upconversion by Triplet-Triplet-Annihilation
Shay Keren-Zur, Tal Ellenbogen
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
We study the use of large-scale fabrication of nano-plasmonic structures to increase the absorption
in thin films of molecular complexes that enable photon-upconversion by triplet-triplet annihilation
and improve the upconversion efficiency.
Poster
TUE4f-P-76
Focusing Coupled Surface Plasmons by Sector Angle of Curved Plasmonic Gratings
Alireza Maleki1, 2, Thanh Phong Vo1, 2, James Downes2, Judith Dawes1, 2
1
ARC Centre of Excellence CUDOS, MQ Photonics Research Centre, Macquarie University,
Sydney NSW 2109, Australia, Tel.+61 2 9850 6367, [email protected], Sydney, Australia
2
MQ Photonics Research Centre, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University,
Sydney NSW 2109, Australia, Sydney, Australia
We show that by increasing the sector angle of curved gratings the lateral size of the coupled
surface plasmons decreases allowing the manipulation of the coupled surface plasmon waves for
in-plane nano-photonic architectures.
Poster
TUE4f-P-77
Near Field probing of Propagating Plasmons between Metallic Nanocavities
Yehiam Prior, Roy Kaner, Yaara Bondy, Guy Shalem
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
The plasmonic coupling between metallic nanocavities, as expressed in near-field distributions and
far-field transmission spectra, is experimentally measured and theoretically calculated, with good
agreement between the two.
Oral Session - TUE5o - Topological Insulators
Chair:Mordechai (Moti) Segev, Physics Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Invited
TUE5o-I-01 18:30
Photonic network analogs of topological insulators
Yidong Chong1, Wenchao Hu1, Kan Wu2, Michael Pasek1, Perry Shum1
1
Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies and School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
2
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of
Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
An electromagnetic analog of a topological insulator can be implemented with a microwave
network of coaxial cables and directional couplers. We experimentally realize a "topological
pump", which shows that the photonic bandstructure is topologically nontrivial.
Oral
TUE5o-O-02 19:00
Excitation of hybridized Dirac plasmon modes in thin-film and disks of topological
insulators
Mohamed Poyli1, 2, Ilya Nechaev1, Ruben Esteban1, 2, Vyacheslav Silkin1, 3, 4, Pedro Echenique1, 2, 3, Javier
Aizpurua1, 2
1
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018, Donostia San Sebastian, Spain
2
Materials Physics Center, CFM (CSIC-UPV/EHU) - Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018,
Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain
3
Departamento de Física de Materiales, Facultad de Químicas UPV/EHU, Apartado 1072, 20018,
4
IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011, Bilbao, Spain
Nanometre-scale systems made of topological insulators support acoustic and optical plasmon
modes with very different charge and spin properties. We analyze the controlled excitation of these
modes by selecting proper illumination and geometry.
Oral
TUE5o-O-03 19:15
Optical Access to Topological-Insulator Surface States with Plasmonics
Grisha Spektor, Meir Orenstein, Alex Hayat
We propose employing surface plasmon-polaritons to confine electromagnetic field onto
topological-insulator spin-helical surface-states. We designed and implemented square plasmonic
lenses which support spin-like angular momentum carrying plasmons shaped as array of localized
counter rotating fields.
Tuesday, 6 January 2015 - Seefeld/Tirol Room - 18:30 - 19:30
Oral Session - TUE5s - Sensing I
Chair:Na Liu, MPI for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
Invited
TUE5s-I-01 18:30
2D Plasmonic Metamaterials and Particle Layers for Sensing and Spectroscopy
Mikael Käll, Mikael Svedendahl, Robin Ogier, Martin Wersäll, Si Chen, Nils Odenho Länk, Yurui Fang,
Ruggero Verre, Aron Hakonen, Zhong-Jian Yang, Tomasz J. Antosiewicz, Peter Johansson, Timur Shegai
Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden
Plasmon resonances in nanostructured metals couple strongly to the dielectric surrounding the metal
surface. Several examples of how to utilize this effect to reveal the presence of organic molecules
will be discussed.
Invited
TUE5s-I-02 19:00
Scaling rules for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
Yoshiaki Nishijima1, Yoshikazu Hashimoto1, Jacob Khurgin2, Hideki Fujiwara3, Lorenzo Rosa4, Saulius
Juodkazis4
1
Yokohama University, Yokohama, Japan
2
Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, United States
3
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
4
Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia
An intricate relationship between the intensity of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and
the optical extinction are revealed. The observed unusual trend of SERS intensity decrease with the
increase of extinction is explained analytically and numerically.
- Break Chair:
Plenary Session - TUE6o - Plenary Talk 3
Chair:
Plenary
TUE6o-PL-01 19:40
Hybrid nanophotonics: Coupling light to other degrees of freedom at the nanoscale
Albert Polman
AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hybrid nanophotonics is a new research field in which light is coupled to other degrees of freedom
such as
nanoscale mechanical motion, acoustic phonons, electron spins, excitons, and molecular vibrations,
and offers great new science and applications.
Wednesday, 7 January 2015 - Olympia Room - 08:30 - 09:30
Plenary Session - WED1o - Plenary Talk 4
Chair:
Plenary
WED1o-PL-01 08:30
Nonlinearity, Nonreciprocity, Time-Modulation and Gain: New Venues for
Metamaterials and Plasmonics
Andrea Alu
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
We discuss how new concepts, such as electronic transitions, gain and time-varying media,
combined with the strong wave-matter interactions in metamaterials and plasmonics, may provide
new directions for metamaterial technology and nanophotonic systems.
Wednesday, 7 January 2015 - Foyer - 09:30 - 09:45
Oral Session - WED2o - Graphene and 2D Materials I
Chair:Cesare Soci, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Invited
WED2o-I-01 09:45
Two-Dimensional Optics with Graphene Plasmons Launched by Metal Antennas
Rainer Hillenbrand2, 5, P. Alonso - González1, A.Y. Nikitin1, F. Golmar1, S. Vélez1, J. Chen1, F. Casanova2,
L.E. Hueso2, A. Centeno3, A. Pesquera3, A. Zurutuza3, G. Navickaite4, F. Koppens4
1
CIC nanoGUNE and UPV/EHU, San Sebastian, Spain
2
IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
3
Graphenea SA, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain
4
ICFO-Institut de Ciéncies Fotoniques, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain
5
CIC nanoGUNE and UPV/EHU, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain
Near-field microscopy is employed to demonstrate the focusing and refraction of propagating
graphene plasmons launched by tailored metal antennas, constituting an essential step for the
development of future graphene plasmonic circuits.
Oral
WED2o-O-02 10:15
Liquid-like Plasmonic Waves on Graphene
Baile Zhang
Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
Singapore
We predict that many hydrodynamic wave phenomena have counterparts in graphene plasmonics,
including plasmonic splashing and V-shaped ship-wakes excited by a swift electron perpendicularly
impacting upon and moving parallel above a graphene monolayer, respectively.
Oral
WED2o-O-03 10:30
Optical tuning and photochemistry of gap plasmons within atomically-thick CdSe
and MoS2 nanocavities
Jan Mertens1, Daniel Sigle1, Lars Herrmann1, Christos Tserkezis2, Javier Aizpurua2
1
Kingdom
2
Center for Materials Physics, CSIC-UPV/EHU and DIPC, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5,
Plasmonically-coupled metal nanoparticles with nanometer-sized gaps produce extremely-localised
and strongly enhanced optical fields. We tune gaps and use the fields to detect smallest traces of
substances in the gap using spectroscopy and surface-enhance Raman scattering.
Invited
WED2o-I-04 10:45
Highly confined low-loss plasmons in graphene-boron nitride heterostructures
Achim Woessner1, Mark B. Lundeberg1, Yuanda Gao2, Alessandro Principi3, Pablo Alonso-González4, Matteo
Carrega5, 6, Kenji Watanabe7, Takashi Taniguchi7, Giovanni Vignale3, Marco Polini5, James Hone2, Rainer
Hillenbrand4, 8, Frank H.L. Koppens1
1
ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
2
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
3
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States
4
CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
5
NEST, Istituto Nanoscienze - CNR and Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
6
SPIN-CNR, Genova, Italy
7
National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
8
Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
In this work we investigate plasmons in high-quality graphene boron nitride heterostructures. We
find unprecedented low damping and strong field confinement of graphene plasmons and identify
and characterize the main damping mechanisms in these heterostructures.
Wednesday, 7 January 2015 - Seefeld/Tirol Room - 09:45 11:15
Oral Session - WED2s - Nanomechanics & Forces
Chair:Mikhail Noginov, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, United States
Oral
WED2s-O-01 09:45
Mechanisms for Mechanical Metastability and Poisson’s Ratio Transitions in
Metamaterial Systems
Matthew Berwind1, 2, Felix Schiebel1, 2, Moubine Al Kotob1, 3, Christoph Eberl1, 2
1
Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
2
Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
3
University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
Reliable mechanical behavior is critical to any functional metamaterial system. This work focuses
on the design, simulation, and testing of mechanisms that allow for mechanical metastability and
Poisson’s Ratio transformations in metamaterials.
Oral
WED2s-O-02 10:00
Measurement and feedback control of a nanomechanical oscillator at its thermal
decoherence rate
Nicolas Piro, Dalziel Wilson, Vivishek Sudhir, Ryan Schilling, Amir Ghadimi, Tobias Kippenberg
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
We demonstrate an opto-nanomechanical sensor capable of resolving its zero-point motion in a
time-scale comparable to its thermal decoherence. Together with radiation-pressure feedback, we
cool the oscillator down to an occupation of ~ 5 phonons.
Oral
WED2s-O-03 10:15
Conventional optical tweezers with a quantum push
Mathieu Juan, Carlo Bradac, Benjamin Besga, Reece Roberts, Matt Van Breugel, Gabriel Molina-Terriza,
Thomas Volz
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Macquarie University & ARC Centre for Engineered
Quantum Systems, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Conventional tweezers and atom optical manipulation have been two very distinct trapping regimes.
In this work we demonstrate the possibility to combine both regimes by using nano-diamond
containing nitrogen-vacancy centres.
Oral
WED2s-O-04 10:30
Generation of graphene surface plasmons and their applications
Mohamed Farhat1, Muhammad Amin1, Sebastien Guenneau2, Hakan Bagci1
1
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
2
Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France
We propose a novel concept that uses mechanical and electronic properties of graphene to
efficiently couple light to surface plasmon polaritons. Applications in bio-chemical-sensing and
design of broadband near-perfect field absorbers are discussed.
WED2s-O-05 10:45
Oral
Molecular Optomechanics: amplification of vibrations in SERS
Philippe Roelli, Christophe Galland, Nicolas Piro, Tobias Kippenberg
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Describing molecular-plasmonic systems studied in SERS as optomechanical cavities, we unravels
a hitherto
overlooked mechanism: backaction force of the plasmon on the vibration. Under precise conditions
it could lead to
coherent amplification of molecular vibration.
WED2s-O-06 11:00
Oral
Quantum nonlocal effects in individual and interacting graphene nanoribbons
Iván Silveiro1, Juan Manuel Plaza Ortega1, Javier García de Abajo1, 2
1
2
We show that doped graphene narrow ribbons support near-infrared plasmons with important
quantum nonlocal corrections. Remarkably, the removal of single-atom rows from extended
graphene is enough to separate ribbons that strongly interact with incident light.
Wednesday, 7 January 2015 - - 11:15 - 11:30
- Break Chair:
Oral Session - WED3o - Graphene and 2D Materials II
Chair:Albert Polman, FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Invited
WED3o-I-01 11:30
Folding of two dimensional materials : structural symmetry and interlayer coupling
Shiwei Wu
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Folding of two dimensional materials can make artificial bilayers with different structural symmetry
and tunable interlayer coupling. Here I will present our recent work on folded MoS2 bilayers with
enhanced valley- and spin- polarizations.
Oral
WED3o-O-02 12:00
Light Emission from Plasmonic h-BN Tunnel Junctions
Markus Parzefall1, Achint Jain1, Zachary J. Lapin1, Takashi Taniguchi2, Kenji Watanabe2, Palash Bharadwaj1,
Lukas Novotny1
1
Photonics Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2
National Institute for Material Science, Tsukuba, Japan
The interaction of electrons with strong electromagnetic fields in plasmonic MIM tunnel junctions
(Au-h-BN-Au) is investigated. Nanoscopic voids mediate the conversion of electron energy to
photons, which results in polarized and resonantly enhanced light emission.
Invited
WED3o-I-03 12:15
Extreme Plasmonics in Atomic-Scale Structures
Javier Garcia de Abajo
ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain
ICREA-Institucio Catalana de Reserca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
We will review various classes of atomic-scale materials capable of sustaining plasmons over
different spectral ranges, exhibiting excellent electro-optical tunability, and featuring strong
plasmon confinement and field enhancement.
Oral
WED3o-O-04 12:30
Plasmon-Enhanced Nonlinear Wave Mixing in Graphene Nanoislands
Joel D. Cox1, F. Javier de Abajo2
1
ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Castelldefelds (Barcelona), Spain
2
ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
We investigate optical wave mixing in doped graphene nanoislands, for which we find strong
enhancement of the nonlinear response when two optical fields are simultaneously coupled with
plasmons.
Oral
WED3o-O-05 12:45
Non-linear Optical Excitation of Surface Plasmons in Graphene
Thomas Constant, Samuel Hornett, Euan Hendry
Electromagnetic Materials Group, Department of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter, United
Kingdom
We present optical wave-mixing measurements designed to excite surface plasmons in planar
graphene. A large enhancement of non-linear signal in regions of high density of states suggests a
strong coupling to propagating plasmons in graphene.
Oral Session - WED3s - Tunable and Deconfigurable Nanosystems
Chair:Masaya Notomi, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan
Invited
WED3s-I-01 11:30
Tunable Molecular Plasmons
Alejandro Manjavacas
Rice University, Houston, United States
We demonstrate both experimentally and theoretically that charged polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons support intense, narrow-band absorption in the visible regime with extreme electrical
tenability, highly analogous to plasmonic resonances of much larger systems.
Oral
WED3s-O-02 12:00
Nano-Opto-Mechanical Nonlinear Plasmonic Metamaterials
Jun-Yu Ou1, Eric Plum1, Nikolay I. Zheludev1, 2
1
2
Singapore
We demonstrate megahertz-bandwidth modulation of light with light at the milliwatt power level
with nano-optomechanical metamaterials fabricated on a nanoscale elastic silicon nitride
membrane. The origin of nonlinearity is in the light-induced electromagnetic near-field forces.
Oral
WED3s-O-03 12:15
Electrically tunable nanostructures and metamaterials
Ivan Shishkin1, Andrey Bogdanov1, 2, Andrey Malyshev2, 3
1
IFMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia
2
Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
3
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
We show that plasmon resonances of arrays of nanoparticles, nanowires, nanoholes, etc. fabricated
in the vicinity of an ITO surface can be efficiently tuned by an electrostatic field, manifesting line
shifts of tens of nm.
Oral
WED3s-O-04 12:30
Active mid-IR plasmonics: tunable and switchable chirality
Xinghui Yin1, Martin Schäferling1, Ann-Katrin Michel2, Matthias Wuttig2, Thomas Taubner2, Harald Giessen1
1
University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
We present a tunable and switchable chiral metamaterial in the mid-IR spectral region.
WED3s-O-05 12:45
Oral
Optically reconfigurable dielectric metamaterials
Qian Wang1, 2, Edward T. F. Rogers1, 3, Behrad Gholipour1, Tapashree Roy1, Nikolay I. Zheludev1, 4
1
Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
2
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research
(A*STAR), 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602, Singapore
3
Instiute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United
Kingdom
4
Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
637371, Singapore
We demonstrate femtosecond-laser-induced raster writing and erasing of dielectric metamaterial
patterns using the phase-change mechanism in chalcogenide films. The technology is demonstrated
by creating dynamically re-focusable and chromatically correctable lenses and diffraction gratings.
- Break Chair:
- WED4o - Technology Talk by Raith
Chair:
- Light Snack and soft drinks provided Chair:
Wednesday, 7 January 2015 - Foyer - 17:00 - 18:30
Poster Session - WED5f - Poster Session II
Chair:Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Jarlath McKenna, IOP Publishing, Bristol, United Kingdom
Poster
WED5f-P-01
The Dy3+ Doped YPO4 Nanocrystals for Photohyperthermia In the Near IR Spectral
Range
Yurii (Yury) Orlovskii (Orlovskiy)2, Alexander Vanetsev1, E.V. Samsonova1, K. Keevend1, I. Sildos1, A.V.
Ryabova2, I.D. Romanishkin2, K.K. Pukhov2, A.V. Popov1, 2, V.B. Loschenov2
1
University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
2
General Physics Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia
We develop novel approach to laser-induced hyperthermia in the near IR biological tissue
transparency spectral window for cancer treatment based on multiphonon relaxation of optical
excitation in the Dy3+ doped YPO4 nanocrystals.
Poster
WED5f-P-02
Strong coupling between individual plasmonic nanoparticles and molecular excitons
Gulis Zengin, Martin Wersäll, Tomasz Antosiewicz, Mikael Käll, Timur Shegai
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
We demonstrate room temperature strong coupling between individual nanoparticles and
J-aggregates. Strong transition dipole moment of excitons in combination with weakly radiating
nanoparticle plasmons facilitates observation of the effect, as supported by extensive numerical
simulations.
Poster
WED5f-P-03
Scalar Potential Formulation for Bianisotropic Metamaterials and Associated
Boundary Conditions for a Local Model of Biased Graphene
Michael Havrilla
Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright Patterson Air Force Bas, United States
A scalar potential formulation for bianisotropic media is developed along with boundary conditions
that include a bianisotropic material interface and a local model of biased graphene. The
considerable simplification and physical insight gained are discussed.
Poster
WED5f-P-04
The unified lasing conditions for the plasmonic nanoshell based SPASER
Vitaliy Pustovit1, Arkadiy Chipouline2, Tigran Shahbazyan3, Augustine Urbas1
1
1Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, United
States
2
Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
3
Jackson State University, Jackson, United States
We present the unified theory of response of plasmonic nanoshells assisted by optical gain media.
We demonstrate that cooperative energy exchange between SPASER modes is responsible for
spasing and loss compensation process in laser resonator.
Poster
WED5f-P-05
A nanolens-type enhancement and collective hybridization of interacting modes in
gold nanodimers
Vitaliy Pustovit, Sushmita Biswas, Richard Vaia, Augistine Urbas
Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, United States
In this paper we explore optical response of gold nanoparticle pairs (dimers). Our calculations
reveal optical periodic behavior dependent on the separation between nanoparticles. This response
increases for dimers with large difference between particle sizes.
Poster
WED5f-P-06
Rapid and label-free detection of Cyanobacterial toxin microcystin-LR using ultrasensitive fiber-optic long-period grating
Saurabh Mani Tripathi1, Wojtek Bock2, Predrag Mikulic2, Garima Mishra3
1
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
2
Photonics Research Centre, University of Quebec in Outaouais, Gatineau, Canada
3
Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Ultra-sensitive fiber-optic biosensor is developed for quantitative detection of microcystin-LR
molecules in drinking water. Immobilizing microcystin-LR on gold-coated dual-resonance
long-period-gratings the sensor can detect microcystin-LR concentration as small as 5 nM with
good experimental accuracy
Poster
WED5f-P-07
Nanocomposite Films with Controlled Dielectric and Magnetic Properties for Spatial
Transformation Applications
Yunqi Wang, Dmitry Isakov, Patrick Grant
University of Oxford, Department of Materials, Parks Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
We introduce a new approach to manufacture nanocomposite films with tailored electromagnetic
properties by spray deposition, which provides a flexible format material for use in spatial
transformation approaches to metamaterials devices.
Poster
WED5f-P-08
Fano Resonances in Coupled Nanorods Forming H-like Structures
Manuel Gonçalves1, Armen Melikyan2, Hayk Minassian3, Taron Makaryan4, Othmar Marti1
1
Ulm University – Inst. Experimental Physics, Ulm, Germany
2
Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) University, Yerevan, Armenia
3
Yerevan Physics Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
4
Yerevan State University - Radiophysics Department, Yerevan, Armenia
A detailed investigation of Fano resonances in H-like configured gold nanorods is presented. Strong
scattering attenuation and large figure of merit (FOM) are achieved for rod lengths smaller than
wavelength, in NIR.
Poster
WED5f-P-09
Controlling Sub-nm Gaps in Plasmonic Dimers Using Graphene
Jan Mertens1, Jeremy Baumberg1, Anna Eiden2, Andrea Ferrari2, Christos Tserkezis3, Javier Aizpurua3
1
Kingdom
2
Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
3
Materials Physics Center, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain
We use graphene to create stable subnanometre junctions in plasmonic dimers. Strong coupling
between a highly localised gap plasmon and coupled dimer plasmon is observed for gaps below
0.4nm resulting in a rich spectral signature.
Poster
WED5f-P-10
Approximated Propagation Analysis of Multimode Interferometers Based on
Segmented Waveguides
Ana Julia Oliveira1, 2, Vitaly Rodriguez-Esquerre1
1
Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
2
Federal University of Vale Sao Francisco, Juazeiro, Brazil
The coupling length of multimode-interferometers based on segmented waveguides has been
calculated by using the finite-element and approximated methods, and the wave propagation was
obtained for several geometric configurations in the optical telecommunication frequencies.
Poster
WED5f-P-11
Imaging and steering emission from nanoantenna arrays
Klas Lindfors1, 2, 3, Daniel Dregely3, Markus Lippitz2, 3, 4, Nader Engheta5, Michael Totzeck6, Harald Giessen3
1
Department of Chemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
3
4
Department of Physics, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
5
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
United States
6
Corporate Research & Technology, Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany
Phase control allows controlling the emission direction of an array of nanoantennas. Here, we image
and steer an optical wireless link between two nanoantenna arrays and achieve unidirectional
emission from a metasurface using phase engineering.
Poster
WED5f-P-12
An ultralow mode volume, tunable and scannable Fabry-Pérot microcavity
Hrishikesh Kelkar1, Daqing Wang1, 2, Björn Hoffmann1, Silke Christiansen1, 3, Stephan Götzinger2, 1, Vahid
Sandoghdar1, 2
1
2
Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
3
Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy, Berlin, Germany
A tunable and scannable microcavity is fabricated and characterized. An ultrasmall mode volume
offers a Purcell factor above 25 even with metallic coatings. We study the influence of a single
nanoparticle on the microcavity resonance.
Poster
WED5f-P-13
Gold Strip Gratings for Surface Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy
Tobias W.W. Maß1, Vu Hoa Nguyen1, Andreas Buchenauer1, Uwe Schnakenberg1
1
2
Institute of Materials in Electrical Engineering 1, Aachen, Germany
We show that gold strip gratings enable a wide tuning range in the mid-IR spectral range and thus a
high applicability for Surface Enhanced Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy (SEIRAS).
Poster
WED5f-P-14
Low loss surface-phonon-polariton resonators for mid-infrared nanophotonics
Peining Li, Tao Wang, Thobias W.W. Mass, Thomas Taubner
We experimentally demonstrate several low loss surface-phonon-polariton resonators based on
various polar crystals, such as silicon carbide and quartz, which enable abundant mid-infrared
nanophotonic applications from surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy to narrowband
thermal emission.
Poster
WED5f-P-15
Transition between Metamaterial and Photonic Crystal Behavior in Arrays of
Dielectric Rods
Filip Dominec, Christelle Kadlec, Hynek Němec, Petr Kužel, Filip Kadlec
Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 8, Czech Republic
An array of dielectric rods can be regarded either as a metamaterial or as a photonic crystal. We
explain when negative index of refraction can be achieved, based on the electromagnetic field nodal
planes topology.
Poster
WED5f-P-16
Efficient gap surface plasmon excitation at telecommunication wavelengths
Michael G. Nielsen, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark
We demonstrate gap surface plasmon waveguides, optimized for normal incident Gaussian beam
excitation, with 29% coupling efficiency and 10µm mode propagation length when the gap size is
ten times smaller than the free-space wavelength.
Poster
WED5f-P-17
Giving Freedom and Physical Meaning to the Effective Parameters of Metamaterials
for all Frequencies
Christopher Andrew Dirdal, Johannes Skaar
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, NO-7491, Trondheim, Norway
Metamaterial parameters exhibit freedom from dispersion constraints owing to their loss of physical
meaning outside a restricted subset of (ω,k). We characterize this freedom, and allocate alternative
meaning to ε_eff and µ_eff.
Poster
WED5f-P-18
Directional Nanoplasmonic Antennas for Self-Referenced Refractometric Molecular
Analysis
Martin Wersäll, Ruggero Verre, Mikael Svedendahl, Peter Johansson, Mikael Käll, Timur Shegai
Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
Localized surface-plasmon resonance sensors are usually dependent on spectrometers, a stable light
source, and a position tracing technique. Instead we present a self-referenced single-wavelength
sensing scheme based on highly directional radiation patterns from asymmetric nanodimers.
Poster
WED5f-P-19
Unidirectional emission from spherical nanoparticles: ab-initio simulations and
spatial dynamics of a core-shell spaser
Juan Sebastian Totero1, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko2, Yuri S. Kivshar2, Andrea Fratalocchi1
1
PRIMALIGHT, Faculty of Electrical Engineering; Applied Mathematics and Computational
Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi
Arabia
2
Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National
University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
We study the dynamics of a spaser by coupling ab-initio simulations and thermodynamic analysis.
Spasing action exhibits different phases, which produce rotational evolution that can be used to
achieve unidirectional emission from spherical nanoparticles.
Poster
WED5f-P-20
Saturation effects in finite-size spasers: bistability, fields and cross-sections
Nikita Arnold1, Klaus Piglmayer1, Alexander Kildishev2, Thomas Klar1
1
Institute of Applied Physics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
2
Birck Nanotechnology Center, School of ECE, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
A spaser is a nano-optical light generator, which utilizes plasmonic modes of metallic
nano-particles (MNP).
We study its saturation behavior within purely electrodynamic framework similar to that of a
conventional laser.
Poster
WED5f-P-21
Electrodynamics of a spaser: shape, size, modes and threshold minimization
Nikita Arnold, Calin Hrelescu, Thomas Klar
Institute of Applied Physics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Spaser generation thresholds in metallic nano-particles (MNP) augmented by gain material are
investigated analytically and numerically. Electrodynamic considerations show, that they are similar
for different MNP shapes and multipolar modes, and always exceed material-specific minimum.
Poster
WED5f-P-22
On the question of compatibility of Maxwell equations and density matrix formalism
Arkadi Chipouline
Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena,Max-Wien-Platz 1, D-07743 Jena,
Germany, Jena, Germany
A usually accepted approach of combination of Maxwell equation with density matrix formalism
leads to a paradox for the radiative loss description. This is rooted into the basic principles from
which Maxwell equations are elaborated.
Poster
WED5f-P-23
Relaxation time mapping of single quantum dots and substrate background
fluorescence
Arkadi Chipouline1, Ivan Mukhin2, Stefan Fasold1, Reinhard Geiss1, Andrea Steinbrück1, Rachel Grange1,
Thomas Pertsch1
1
Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena,
Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743, Jena, Germany, Jena, Germany
2
ITMO University, Kronverkskiy pr. 49, 197101, St.Petersburg, Russia, St.Petersburg, Russia
We experimentally investigated the role of background signal in time resolved photoluminescence
experiments with single quantum dots on substrates, acting as a hot-spot enabling the plasmon
supported fluorescence enhancement of gold.
Poster
WED5f-P-24
Eigen modes in silicon nanotoroidal structures
Arkadi Chipouline3, Andrey Evlyukhin1, Urs Zywietz1, M. Steinert3, D. Lehr3, R Geiss3, S. Fasold3, A.
Miroshnichenko2, B. Chichkov1, B. Kley3, T. Pertsch3
1
Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Hollerithallee 8, D-30419 Hannover, Germany, Hannover,
Germany
2
Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National
University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia, Canberra, Australia
3
IAP/FSU Jena, Albert-Einstein Str. 15, 07745, Jena, Germany, Jena, Germany
We demonstrate experimentally for the first time eigen modes in silicon nanotoroidal structures in
visible wavelengths. The structures have been designed and created using recently developed laser
printing technology followed by FIB or HIM processing.
Poster
WED5f-P-25
Nanoparticle-assisted STED, theory and experimental demonstration
Yonatan Sivan1, Yannick Sonnefraud2, Hugo Sinclair4, Matthew Foreman3, Christopher Dunsby4, Mark Neil4,
Paul French4, Stefan Maier4
1
Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
2
Institut Neel, CNRS, Grenoble, France
3
4
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
We show experimentally a 4-fold reduction of the intensity required to achieve sub-diffraction
resolution in a stimulated-emission-depletion microscope, in good agreement with theory. This
shows that the theoretical prediction of a 100-fold intensity-reduction is achievable.
Poster
WED5f-P-26
Phase-Sensitive Plasmonic Metamaterials for Biosensing
Andrey Aristov, Andrey Kabashin
UMR7341 CNRS - AMU Laboratoire LP3, Marseille, France
We extend the original concept of phase-sensitive plasmonic biosensing to new metamaterial-based
architechtures, which can provide a much improved sensing response, a better cost-efficiency and
additional functionalities (e.g., SERS option).
Poster
WED5f-P-27
A Model for Spasers and Dielectric Nanolasers:Strategies for Lower Thresholds
Günter Kewes1, Rogelio Rodriguez-Oliveros2, Kathrin Höfner2, Alexander Kuhlicke1, Oliver Benson1, Kurt
Busch2, 3
1
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, AG Nanooptik, Berlin, Germany
2
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, AG Theoretische Optik und Photonik, Berlin,
Germany
3
Max-Born Institut, Berlin, Germany
An analytic model for spasers and dielectric nanolasers is presented. Mie theory allows calculating
realistic gain relaxation rates (so far underestimated). We derive strategies for threshold reduction
and explore silicon for purely dielectric nanolasers.
Poster
WED5f-P-28
Laplace–Fourier Analysis and Instabilities of an Active Slab
Hans Olaf Hågenvik, Johannes Skaar
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Trondheim, Norway
We present a framework for determining the occurrence and type of instabilities in an active slab.
The analysis provides insight into the possible problems associated with the monochromatic and
plane wave limits in gain media.
Poster
WED5f-P-29
Nanoscale polymorphism and conduction in an organic transistor device
Bert Nickel1, 2, Fritz Keilmann1, 3, Christian Westermeier1, 2, Sergiu Amarie3, Adrian Cernescu3
1
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Fakultät für Physik, München, Germany
2
Nanosystems Initiative Munich, München, Germany
3
Neaspec GmbH, Martinried, Germany
By investigating thin film pentacene with infrared s-SNOM and scanning photocurrent microscopy,
we observe the unexpected and spontaneous nanoscopic nucleation and growth of a complementary
and structurally different molecular crystal phase.
Poster
WED5f-P-30
Localized Fluorescent Excitation using Enhanced Third Order Nonlinear Effects in
Gold Nanomatryoshka; A Theoretical Investigation
Pezhman Sasanpour1, 2, Raheleh Mohammadpour3
1
Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid
Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2
Computational Nano-Bioelectromagnetics Research Group, School of Nano-Science, Institute for
Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
3
Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Localized excitation of fluorescent tags based on enhancement in third order nonlinear effects
(FWM-THG) in gold nanomatryoshka structure (Au-SiO2-Au) has been proposed and investigated
theoretically using nonlinear finite difference time domain method.
Poster
WED5f-P-31
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Poster
WED5f-P-32
Strong coupling studies with surface lattice resonance
Aaro Väkeväinen1, Lei Shi2, Tommi Hakala1, Robert Moerland3, Heikki Rekola1, Jani-Petri Martikainen1,
Antti-Pekka Eskelinen1, Dong-Hee Kim4, Päivi Törmä1
1
COMP Centre of Excellence, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University, FI-00076 Aalto,
Finland, Espoo, Finland
2
Department of Physics, Key Laboratory of Micro & Nano Photonic Structures (MOE) and Key
Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University,Shanghai 200433, P. R. China, Shanghai, China
3
Department of Imaging Physics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Delft University of
Technology,Lorentzweg 1, NL-2628 CJ, Delft, The Netherlands, Delft, Netherlands
4
Department of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology,
Gwangju 500-712, Korea, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of (South)
We study the light-matter interactions between plasmonic nanoparticle arrays and organic
fluorescent molecules in both weak and strong coupling regimes. Spatial coherence properties of the
system are studied throughout the weak to strong coupling crossover.
Poster
WED5f-P-33
Single-Photon Super-Oscillation
Guanghui Yuan1, Stefano Vezzoli1, Charles Altuzarra1, Edward Rogers2, Christophe Couteau1, Cesare Soci1,
Zexiang Shen1, Nikolay Zheludev1, 2
1
Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
637371, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
2
Southampton, Southampton, UK, Southampton, United Kingdom
We demonstrate that the wave-function of a single photon can be squeezed into a hot-spot smaller
than half wavelength thus demonstrating the paradoxical super-oscillatory behaviour of quantum
systems discussed by Aharonov, Berry and others.
Poster
WED5f-P-34
Plasmons in inhomogeneously doped graphene nanostructures
Iván Silveiro1, Javier García de Abajo1, 2
1
2
We study plasmons in graphene nanodisks including the effect of inhomogeneity in the doping
profile distribution. Specifically, charged disks containing a fixed amount of additional carriers and
neutral disks exposed to an external point charge.
Poster
WED5f-P-35
Multipolar resonances in quasistatic metal nanoparticles induced trough gain
coupling over the amplifyng threshold
Alessandro Veltri1, Arkadi Chipouline2, Ashod Aradian3, 4
1
Colegio de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Cumbaya, Ecuador
2
Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany
3
CNRS, CRPP, UPR 8641, F33600, Pessac, France
4
Univ. Bordeaux, CRPP, UPR 8641, F33600, Pessac, France
We model localized plasmons in metallic nanoparticles coupled to an active gain medium showing
how, in the emission regime, plasmonic field shifts from a dipolar to a multipolar shape even in the
quasi static regime.
Poster
WED5f-P-36
Infinite Lifetime States with Quantized Energy in a Core-shell Plasmonic
Nanoparticle
Sylvain Lannebère, Mário Silveirinha
University of Coimbra, Department of Electrical Engineering - Instituto de Telecomunicações,
Coimbra, Portugal
We show here how to perfectly trap a quantized “bit” of electromagnetic radiation inside an open
core-shell particle with a core made of a third-order non-linear material and a shell made of an
epsilon-near-zero material.
Poster
WED5f-P-37
Surface Plasmon Dependence on the Electron Density Profile at Metal Surfaces
Christin David1, F. Javier García de Abajo1, 2
1
ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain
2
ICREA Research Professor at ICFO, Castelldefels, Spain
Electron spill-out at metal surfaces is shown to have a dominant effect relative to spatial dispersion,
as determined by studying the surface response in the hydrodynamic model, adapted to include
inhomogeneous ground-state electron densities.
Poster
WED5f-P-38
Asymmetric dot dimers – optical properties and interactions
Nina Meinzer, Alastair D. Humphrey, William L. Barnes
We present a study of the rich optical behaviour of the dark (grey) modes exhibited by asymmetric
dot dimers and how this behaviour is modified upon interaction between dimers.
Poster
WED5f-P-39
Enhanced reflective- and absorptive properties of graphene by exciting plasmons
Tobias Wenger1, Mikael Fogelström1, Jari Kinaret2
1
Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2),
Gothenburg, Sweden
2
Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Applied Physics, Gothenburg, Sweden
We present a theoretical investigation of the properties of light scattering of a grated or ungrated
graphene surface in vacuum. We find that plasmons strongly influence the reflective and absorptive
properties of the surface.
Poster
WED5f-P-40
Self-Induced Transparency and Superradiance in Quantum Metamaterials
G.P. Tsironis1, 2, 3, Z. Ivic4, N. Lazarides1, 2
1
Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology, Department of Physics, University of
Crete, P. O. Box 2208, 71003, Heraklion, Greece
2
Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser, Foundation for Research and Technology--Hellas, P.O.
Box 1527, 71110, Heraklion, Greece
3
Department of Physics, School of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University, 53 Kabanbay
Batyr Ave., Astana 010000,, Astana, Kazakhstan
4
University of Belgrade, "Vinca" Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Laboratory for Theoretical and
Condensed Matter Physics, P.O.Box 522, 11001, Belgrade, Serbia
Superconducting qubits are currently preferred for building quantum computers. We demonstrate
theoretically the emergence of coherent optical phenomena in superconducting quantum
metamaterials. Their experimental confi- rmation may open a new path to potentially powerful
quantum computing
Poster
WED5f-P-41
3D information from 2D scans in a camera-based scanning microscope 3D
information from 2D scans in a camera-based scanning microscope
Monika Ritsch-Marte1, Alexander Jesacher1, Rafael Piestun2
1
Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
2
University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
We present a scanning microscope with a double-helix mask in the emission pathway and synthetic
pinholes on a sCMOS camera which can acquire 3D information from a single 2D scan.
Poster
WED5f-P-42
Multiphoton Characterization of Two-Dimensional Layered Materials
Antti Säynätjoki1, Lasse Karvonen1, Juha Riikonen1, Wonjae Kim1, Soroush Mehravar2, Robert Norwood2,
Nasser Peyghambarian1, 2, Harri Lipsanen1, Khanh Kieu2
1
Aalto University, Department of Micro and Nanosciences, Espoo, Finland
2
University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Graphene and other 2D layered materials are studied with multiphoton microscopy. The method is
rapid and it enables simultaneous characterization of second- and third-order nonlinearities and
multiphoton excited luminescence.
Poster
WED5f-P-43
Narrow Surface Lattice Resonances of Plasmonic Particle Pairs
Alastair Humphrey, Nina Meinzer, William Barnes
We demonstrate through experiment that narrow surface lattice resonances (Q>110) can be
produced in regular arrays of asymmetric silver particle pairs. We explain our results using a simple
analytical coupled-dipole model.
Poster
WED5f-P-44
Nonlinear Optical Properties of Self Assembled Gold Structures
Concita Sibilia1, Alessandro Belardini1, MArco Centini1, Grigore Leahu1, Joseph W. Haus2, andrew Sarangan2
1
Dipartimento di Scienze di Base e Applicate per l’Ingegneria Sapienza Università di Roma,Roma,
Italy, Roma, Italy
2
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Dayton Dayton,Ohio,USA,
Dayton, United States
The second harmonic generation from a regular array of tilted gold nanowires on a silicon substrate
has been investigated. The break of symmetry has been put into evidence by means of polarization
dependent
Poster
WED5f-P-45
Analysis of Surface Plasmons by Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopes: Modeling
by Geometrical Optics and Rigorous Diffraction Theory -- Cancelled -Gaurav Bose
Institute of Photonics, University of Eastern Finland, P.O. Box 111, FI-80101, Joensuu, Finland
Nanocomp Oy Ltd, Ensolantie 6, FI-80710, Lehmo, Finland
Poster
WED5f-P-46
Plasmonic nanowire-cored silicate fiber spaser
Duc Minh Nguyen1, 3, Behrad Gholipour1, Long Cui1, Venkatram Nalla1, Daniel Hewak2, Nikolay Zheludev1,
2
, Cesare Soci1, 3
1
Centre for Disruptive Photonics Institute, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
Singapore
2
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
3
CINTRA CNRS/NTU/THALES, UMI 3288, Singapore, Singapore
We demonstrate a new concept of fiber spaser enabled by surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) on the
surface of a single gold nanowire integrated in a silicate optical fiber.
Poster
WED5f-P-47
Nonlinear Plasmonics in Nonperturbative Hydrodynamic Description
Pavel Giznburg1, 2, Alexey Krasavin1, Paulia Segovia1, Gregory A. Wurtz1, Anatoly V. Zayats1
1
King's College London, London, United Kingdom
2
ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
A time-domain implementation of the hydrodynamic model for conduction electrons in metals has
been developed to enable non-perturbative studies of nonlinear coherent interactions between light
and plasmonic nanostructures. Results suggest reconsideration of existing hydrodynamic
approaches.
Poster
WED5f-P-48
Circularly Polarised Quantum Dot Emission via Coupling with Chiral Ag
Nanostructures
John Gough1, David McCloskey1, Jose Caridad2, Vojislav Krstic3, Marcus Müller4, Nikolai Gaponik4, Louise
Bradley1
1
School of Physics and Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices,
University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
2
Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Ørsteds Plads,
Lyngby, Denmark
3
Cluster of Excellence Engineering of Advanced Materials, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nägelsbachstrasse 49b 91052, Erlangen, Germany
4
Physikalische Chemie, TU Dresden, Helmholtzstraße 10, 01069, Dresden, Germany
Circularly polarised quantum dot emission was achieved through dipole coupling with chiral Ag
nanostructures. The chiral nanostructures act as antennae thus influencing the directionality and
polarisation of the quantum dot emission.
Poster
WED5f-P-49
Utilising curvature for surface wave devices
Rhiannon Mitchell-Thomas1, Simon Horsley1, Ian Hooper1, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel2
1
Electromagnetic and Acoustic Materials Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
2
School of Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10044, Stockholm,
Sweden., Stockholm, Sweden
Using geometrical optics it is possible to create a link between flat and curved 2D geometries with
the addition of refractive index profiles. We show examples of this technique including surface
wave cloaks and lenses.
Poster
WED5f-P-50
Enhanced and polarized emission from single CdSe/CdS nanocrystals coupled to a
1D gold grating decoupler
Fabien Eloi1, Hugo Frederich1, Damien Canneson1, Stéphanie Buil1, Xavier Quélin1, Arunandan Kumar2,
Alexandre Bouhelier2, Jean-Claude Weeber2, Gérard Colas des Francs2, Michel Nasilowki3, Clémentine
Javaux3, Benoît Dubertret3, Jean-Pierre Hermier1, 4
1
Groupe d’Etude de la Matière Condensée, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,
CNRS UMR8635, 45 avenue des Etats-Unis, 78035 Versailles, France, Versailles, France
2
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), UMR 6303 CNRS, Université de
Bourgogne, 9 Avenue Savary, BP 47870, 21078 Dijon Cedex, France, Dijon, France
3
Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etude des Matériaux, CNRS UMR8213, ESPCI, 10 rue Vauquelin,
75231 Paris, France, Paris, France
4
Institut Universitaire de France, 103, bd Saint-Michel, 75005 Paris, France, Paris, France
Thick shell colloidal CdSe/CdS nanocrystals are coupled to a 1D gold grating. The emission of a
single NC is enhanced and nearly completely polarized. Results are in good agreement with the
theoretical model.
Poster
WED5f-P-51
Optically Active Self-Assembled Plasmonic-Photonic Crystals
Sergei Romanov, Oleksandr Zhuromskyy, Ulf Peschel
Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen,
Germany
Large area planar optically active plasmonic-photonic materials have been fabricated via a
bottom-up approach. Chiral lattices of asymmetric metal semishells convert the polarization owing
to interplay between collective plasma excitations and cavity resonances.
Poster
WED5f-P-52
Enhanced random lasing with plasmonic nanostars
Johannes Ziegler, Martin Djiango, Christian Wörister, Battulga Munkhbat, Cynthia Vidal, Calin Hrelescu,
Thomas A. Klar
Institute of Applied Physics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Str. 69, Linz, Austria
: Here, we demonstrate random lasing with star-shaped gold nanoparticles in a dye-doped gain
medium. Star-shaped nanoparticles are more efficient for random lasing than conventional
nanoparticle shapes, such as spheres and rods.
Poster
WED5f-P-53
λ/30-Resolution in Subsurface Imaging with a Near-Field Optical Microscope
Lena Jung, Benedikt Hauer, Thomas Taubner
I. Institute of Physics (IA), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
We present a study on lateral resolution and signal strength in subsurface imaging with an infrared
optical near-field microscope. A spectroscopic investigation combines the research areas of
subsurface imaging and superlensing.
Poster
WED5f-P-54
Effect of electron-phonon coupling on the plasmon lifetimes in nanographene
José Ramón Martínez Saavedra1, Francisco Javier García de Abajo1, 2
1
ICFO Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Castelldefels, Spain
2
ICREA-Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain
We study the plasmon-phonon coupling in graphene nanoislands through a perturbative RPA
expansion and conclude that it contributes with a few millielectronvots to the plasmon width, which
increases with both the island size and doping.
Poster
WED5f-P-55
First Evidence of Near-Infrared Photonic Bandgap in a Rod-Connected Diamond
Structure
Lifeng Chen, Mike Taverne, Xu Zheng, Jia-De Lin, Martin Lopez-García, Ying-Lung Daniel Ho, John Rarity
University of Bristol, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bristol, United
Kingdom
We show partial photonic bandgaps in rod-connected diamond structures fabricated by 3D
lithography. We see good agreement between optical transmission/reflection experiments and
simulations. Interesting polarisation conversion effects seen in reflection are discussed.
Poster
WED5f-P-56
Hybrid surface plasmons in graphene metasurfaces
Iurii Trushkov1, Ivan Iorsh1, Pavel Belov1, Yuri Kivshar2
1
NRU ITMO, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
We study electromagnetic properties of a metasurface formed by coupled array of graphene
nanoribbons. We show that surface conductivity tensor has principal components of different sign
and the system supports Dyakonov like plasmonic surface modes.
Poster
WED5f-P-57
Spectroscopic characterization and material analysis of linearly polarized optical
antennas
Manuel Messner, Govinda Lilley, Karl Unterrainer
TU Wien, Institut für photonik, Wien, Austria
We use rotating polarization spectroscopy to determine the effect that changes in material
composition of a nano antenna as well as its environment have on the central wavelength and
Q-factor of the corresponding LSPR.
Poster
WED5f-P-58
Control of the hotspot localization by plasmonic antennas
Valentina Giorgis1, Rodrigo Lima2, Andrey Malyshev3, 4
1
ISEN, Université Catholique, Lille, France
2
Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Brazil
3
A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technicla Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
4
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
The position of both electromagnetic field and temperature hotspots in the vicinity of plasmonic
antennas (comprising linear arrays of metal nanoparticles of different sizes) can be tuned by angles
of incidence of the excitation.
Poster
WED5f-P-59
Optimization of plasmonic structure integrated single-photon detector designs to
enhance absorptance
Mária Csete1, Gábor Szekeres1, Balázs Bánhelyi2, András Szenes1, Tibor Csendes2, Gábor Szabó1
1
2
Department of Computational Optimization, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
Plasmonic structure integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD)
configurations were optimized for 1550 nm p-polarized light illumination to maximize absorptance.
Orientation dependent NbN absorptance, spectral sensitivity and dispersion characteristics were
investigated to find optimal configurations.
Poster
WED5f-P-60
Plasmonic modes on arrays of nanoparticle aggregates
Mária Csete1, Anikó Somogyi1, Anikó Szalai1, József Balázs1, Edit Csapó2, Imre Dékány2
1
2
MTA-SZTE Supramolecular and Nanostructured Materials Research Group, University of Szeged,
Szeged, Hungary
Eigenmodes, standing and propagating modes were investigated on arrays of linear and wavy
aggregates of cysteine-coated silver nanospheres at the maxima of absorption spectra determined
numerically. The effect of grating coupling were also studied.
Poster
WED5f-P-61
Infrared surface phonon polariton modes in SiC triangular nanoantenna arrays
Alexander Giles1, Chase Ellis1, Joseph Tischler2, Joshua Caldwell2
1
NRC Postdoctoral Fellow residing at United States Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC,
United States
2
United States Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
4H-SiC nanoantenna arrays were found to support a variety of surface phonon polariton modes
which were consistent with theoretical simulations. Modulation of antenna size and gap allowed for
independent control of individual modes.
Poster
WED5f-P-62
Spaser in Quantum Regime
Mark Stockman
Center for Nano-Optics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, GA, United States
We consider latest results on spaser as ultrafast quantum generator and amplifier of nanoplasmonic
fields, ultrabright nanolabel, efficient nanosensor, and electrical spaser in the extreme quantum
regime and graphene spaser.
Poster
WED5f-P-63
Broadband near-infrared spectroscopy of organic molecules on compact photonic
devices
Alina Karabchevsky1, Giuseppe Buscemi2, Muhammad Imran Mustafa Abdul Khudus1, Pavlos Lagoudakis2,
Michalis Zervas1, James Wilkinson1
1
Optoelectronics Research Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
2
School of Physics and Astronomy, Southampton, United Kingdom
We demonstrate a nanophotonic approach for broadband near-infrared spectroscopy of organic
molecules. Waveguides, tapered microfibers and gold nanoparticles enable ultra-sensitive miniature
spectrometers for highly sensitive detection in ultra-low sample volumes.
Poster
WED5f-P-64
Integration of site- and spectrum -controlled pyramidal quantum dots with photonic
crystal membrane cavities
Alexey Lyasota, Benjamin Dwir, Pascal Gallo, Clement Jarlov, Bruno Rigal, Alok Rudra, Elyahou Kapon
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
We focus on photonic crystal L7 cavities containing four quantum dots positioned at precise
locations corresponding to electric field maxima of the PhC mode. We observed simultaneous
coupling of all QDs with the same mode.
Poster
WED5f-P-65
Lithography-free Fabrication of Different-sized and Disordered Metal Nanoparticles
for Gap Plasmonic Absorption Band-broadning
Minjung Choi, Kyoungsik Kim
Optics and Metamaterials Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, 50
Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu,, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South)
In energy harvesting strategy, it is important that the field enhancement rise within an active layer.
We fabricated Ostwald ripened gold nanoparticles by thermal annealing for the application of
broadband gap plasmonic field enhanced absorber.
Poster
WED5f-P-66
Large-area SERS active 3D nanostructured films with multiple hot-spots
Hyeon-Ho Jeong1, Insook Kim1, 2, Andrew Mark1, Tung-Chun Lee1, Peer Fischer1, 2
1
2
Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
We introduce a method for growing 3D plasmonic nanofilms on the wafer-scale and show that these
films exhibit SERS enhancements whose response can be tuned by shaping their 3D geometries.
Poster
WED5f-P-67
The investigation of transmission and reflection coefficients in multi layer periodical
metamaterial systems with Micro- SRR structure
Elahe Amani
Bahram Jazi, Isfahan, Iran
In this paper we study the reflection and transmission coefissient of an electromagnetic wave passed
through split ring resonator metamaterial slab using consecutive reflection method. the geometic
parameters of SRRs change in sinusoidal manner.
Poster
WED5f-P-68
Polarization Swichable Near Field Plasmonic Beam Shaping by Optical
Nanoantennas
Ori Avayu, Tal Ellenbogen, Itai Epstein, Elad Eisner
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
We demonstrate experimentally the use of optical nanoantennas for polarization and wavelength
controlled plasmonic beam shaping. Switchable dual foci plasmonic lens and an on/off switching of
self-accelerating beams are demonstrated with a 50% switching ratio.
Poster
WED5f-P-69
Loss Mitigated Collective Resonances in Gain-Assisted Plasmonic Materials
Melissa Infusino1, Antonio De Luca2, Alessandro Veltri1, C. Vázquez Vázquez3, M. Correa Duarte3, Rakesh
Dhama2, Giuseppe Strangi4
1
Colegio de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador, Quito,
Ecuador
2
University of Calabria, Department of Physics, Rende, Italy
3
Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
4
Case Western Reserve University10600 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, United States
Here we report the experimental study of the broadband loss mitigation in a system composed by
the
dispersion of plasmonic mesocapsules in a solution with gain molecules.
Poster
WED5f-P-70
Optical activity in a chiral-ferromagnetic-plasmonic metamaterial
John G. Gibbs1, Andrew G. Mark1, Peer Fischer1, 2, Sahand Eslami1, 2
1
2
Institute for Physical Chemistry of University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
We present studies of nano-sized helical metal structures and show how combining plasmon
resonances, structural chirality and magnetic ordering affect the optical properties of natural,
magnetic, and magneto-chiral dichroism.
Poster
WED5f-P-71
Enhancement and collimation of spontaneous emission of a single nitrogen vacancy
centre via an integrated plasmonic device
Niko Nikolay, Günter Kewes, Oliver Benson
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Theoretical and experimental studies of an experiment combining a plasmonic bullseye antenna
with a needle-like plasmonic antenna coupled to a nitrogen vacancy centre for collimation and a
dramatic enhancement of spontaneous emission will be presented.
Poster
WED5f-P-72
Plasmonically Induced Circular Dichroism in DNA assembled metamolecules
Xiaoyang Duan, Xibo Shen, Na Liu
We theoretically calculate and experimentally verify the interaction between chiral plasmonic
metamolecules and achiral gold nanoparticle. The dramatical effect on chiral metamolecules offers
a unique possibility to investigate the mechanism behind the induced CD.
Poster
WED5f-P-73
Induced chirality through coupling between artificial chiral plasmonic molecules and
achiral plasmonic antennas
Song Yue1, Xinghui Yin2, Na Liu1
1
2
4th Physics Institute and Research Center SCOPE, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
We experimentally and theoretically investigate the induced chirality effects between artificial
chiral plasmonic molecules and achiral plasmonic antennas at optical frequencies.
Poster
WED5f-P-74
Towards nanoscale light-matter interfaces with defect centers coupled to integrated
dielectric nanostructures
Martin Zeitlmair1, Markus Weber1, 2, Lars Liebermeister1, Florian Böhm1, Niko Heinrichs1, Philipp Altpeter1,
Arno Rauschenbeutel3, Oliver Benson4, Harald Weinfurter1, 2
1
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Fakultät für Physik, München, Germany
2
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Garching, Germany
3
Atominstitut, Technische Universität, Wien, Austria
4
Institut für Physik, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany
The evanescent optical coupling of a single NV-center to the strongly confined mode of a tapered
optical fiber showed a coupling efficiency of 10%. Using integrated slot waveguides, the coupling
efficiency can be improved significantly.
Poster
WED5f-P-75
Plasmonic intensity modulators based on graphene
Daniel Ansell1, Ilya P. Radko2, Zhanghua Han2, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi2, Alexander N. Grigorenko1
1
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
2
University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
We present different configurations of graphene-based plasmonic waveguide modulators and
discuss their potential for maximizing the modulation depth. We show that properly chosen
waveguide configuration and optimized geometry can provide state-of-the-art modulation at low
gate voltages.
Poster
WED5f-P-76
Ultra-dense Transparent Conductive Oxide Metamaterials
Simon Gregory1, Yudong Wang1, 2, Otto Muskens1
1
Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
2
Nano Group, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Transparent conducting oxides are a promising infrared alternative plasmonic material. Here, we
build and characterise split-ring metamaterials made from indium tin oxide, and find them to be
more sub-wavelength compared to corresponding gold metamaterials.
Poster
WED5f-P-77
Fabrication of plasmonic nanoantennas by femtosecond direct laser writing
lithography - effects of plasmonic coupling on SEIRA enhancement
Frank Neubrech, Shahin Bagheri, Ksenia Weber, Harald Giessen
4th Physics Insitute and Research Centre SCOPE, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
We utilized direct laser writing for the fabrication of plasmonic nanoantennas resonant in the
mid-infrared spectral range to investigate the impact of plasmonic coupling between neighbouring
antennas on the enhancement in surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy.
Oral Session - WED6o - Quantum and Applications
Chair:Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States
Invited
WED6o-I-01 18:30
Coherence and Transparency in rf SQUID Metamaterials
Steven M. Anlage, Melissa Trepanier, Daimeng Zhang
University of Maryland, College Park, United States
We study ways (experimentally, analytically and numerically) to characterize and enhance the
collective coherence and transparency of richly nonlinear superconducting rf SQUID metamaterials
in the microwave regime.
Oral
WED6o-O-02 19:00
Toroidal qubits: naturally-decoupled quiet artificial atoms
Alexander Zagoskin1, 2, Arkadi Chipouline3, Evgeny Il’ichev4, Robert Johansson2, Franco Nori5, 6
1
Physics Department, Loughborough University, Loughborough LE11 3TU, United Kingdom,
Loughborough, United Kingdom
2
iTHES Research Group, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan, Saitama, Japan
3
Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universit¨at Jena,
Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany, Jena, Germany
4
Leibnitz Institute of Photonic Technology, P.O. Box 100239, D-07702 Jena, Germany, Jena,
Germany
5
Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan, Saitama, Japan
6
Physics Department, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-1040, USA, Ann
Arbor, United States
We propose a superconducting toroidal flux qubit design naturally protected from ambient noise.
The superconducting toroidal design exhibits properties similar to an effective two-level scheme. A
toroidal qubit laser based on this design is also considered.
Oral
WED6o-O-03 19:15
Plasmonic Modulators Using Quantum Well Electroabsorption
Gordon Keeler, Kent Geib, Rohan Kekatpure, Jeffrey Cederberg, Ting Luk, Darwin Serkland, S.
Parameswaran, Joel Wendt
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
We demonstrate plasmonic modulators using semiconductor-based electroabsorption. Our devices
combine metal waveguides with InAlGaAs quantum wells for operation at 1550nm. Electricallycontrolled modulation of the propagating surface plasmon mode is realized via the quantumconfined Stark effect.
Oral
WED6o-O-04 19:30
Coherent perfect absorption in silicon waveguides by plasmonic nano-antennas
Roman Bruck, Otto Muskens
Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK, Southampton,
United Kingdom
The performance of plasmonic nanoantennas on SOI wire waveguides as coherent perfect absorbers
is explored. The proposed structure can be utilized for ultracompact all-optical switches,
modulators, sensing or for increasing nonlinear effects.
Oral
WED6o-O-05 19:45
Adiabatic elimination based modulation for densely integrated nano-photonics
Haim Suchowski, Michael Mrejen, Taiki Hatakeyama, Chihhui Wu, Liang Feng, Yuan Wang, Xiang Zhang
NSF Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC), 3112 Etcheverry Hall, University of
California, Berkeley, California 94720, Berkeley, United States
We experimentally demonstrate a novel approach based on adiabatic elimination scheme for
modulation in densely packed coupled waveguides. At the nano-scale, cancellation of the coupling
between the waveguides can be achieved.
WED6o-I-06 20:00
Invited
Ultralow-power photonic processing by integrated nanophotonics
Masaya Notomi
NTT Nanophotonics Center & NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi, Japan
We realized a variety of integrable nanophotonic devices based on photonic crystals which can
be operated with small energy consumption, around fJ/bit level. We will discuss impacts
of this technology on large-scale photonic integration.
Oral Session - WED6s - Transformation Optic
Chair:Baile Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singpore, Singapore
Invited
WED6s-I-01 18:30
Controlling Light in Transformation Optical Waveguides
Hui Liu1, Chong Sheng1, Shining Zhu1, Dentcho Genov2
1
National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures & Department of Physics, Nanjing, China
2
College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, United States
A controlling laser produces inhomogeneous refractive index inside a waveguide through the
photothermal effect. The trajectory of waveguide beam is continuously tuned. This work provides
an approach toward optical control of transformation optical devices.
Oral
WED6s-O-02 19:00
Beaming of Microwave Surface Waves
Joseph A. Dockrey, Ben J. Q. Woods, Ben Tremain, Ian R. Hooper, Simon A. R. Horsley, J. Roy Sambles,
Alastair P. Hibbins
Highly collimated microwave surface wave beams are observed in experiment, supported on a
variety of very thin (68 µm thick) metafilms. The number of self-collimated beams is governed by
the symmetry of the structure.
WED6s-I-03 19:15
Invited
Broadband Perfect Metamaterial Cloak Designed with Transformation Optics
Runren Zhang, Hongsheng Chen
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
By using transformation optics method, a three dimensional, full polarization, and nearly perfect
carpet cloak is designed and experimental demonstrated in a broad band.
Oral
WED6s-O-04 19:45
Plasmon-Polaron Coupling in Organic Semiconductors
Zilong Wang1, 2, Jun Zhao3, Bettina Frank3, Qiandong Ran1, Giorgio Adamo1, 2, Harald Giessen2, 3, Cesare
Soci1, 2
1
Division of Physics and Applied Physics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371,
2
Singapore 637371, Singapore, Singapore
3
4th Physics Institute and Research Center SCoPE, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57,
70569 Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
We describe a completely novel approach to enhance charge carrier photogenration in organic
semiconductor
by resonant coupling of plasmons in mid-infrared split ring resonators and polarons in a conjugated
polymer.
Oral
WED6s-O-05 20:00
Fabrication and Spectral Tuning of Standing Gold Infrared Antennas Using Single
fs-Laser Pulses
Tobias W.W. Maß1, Jòn Mattis Hoffmann,1, Thomas Taubner1, Martin Reininghaus2, Dirk Wortmann2, Zhao
Cao2
1
2
Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology,, Aachen, Germany
We present a simple method for producing upright standing nanoantennas with a high aspect ratio
and a tunable resonance frequency by single pulses of femtosecond laser radiation.
Oral
WED6s-O-06 20:15
Low-loss Phonon Polariton Resonators : from Isotropic to Hyperbolic
Yiguo Chen1, 3, Joshua Caldwell2, Yan Francescato1, Vincenzo Giannini1, Orest Glembocki2, Minghui Hong3,
Stefan Maier1
1
The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
2
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C., United States
3
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore,
We report on the extraordinary optical properties of polar crystal-based nanoresonators which
support huge field confinement thanks to the stimulation of low-loss phonon polaritons, allowing
for both ultra-sensitive sensing (Q~270) and sub-diffraction light guiding (λ/90).
Thursday, 8 January 2015 - Olympia Room - 08:30 - 09:30
Plenary Session - THU1o - Plenary Talk 5
Chair:
THU1o-PL-01 08:30
Plenary
Strong-field interactions of electrons with nano-confined light: Classical and
quantum features
Claus Ropers
4th Physical Institute, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Several examples of field-driven interactions with electrons at optical nanostructures will be
discussed, together with experimental means of control. Photoemission spectroscopy and
electron-light scattering yield insight into classical and quantum mechanical aspects of these
phenomena.
Thursday, 8 January 2015 - Foyer - 09:30 - 09:45
Oral Session - THU2o - Sensing II
Chair:
Invited
THU2o-I-01 09:45
Efficient Coupling of Photons and Quantum Emitters
Vahid Sandoghdar
Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
I shall present various arrangements for direct and efficient coupling of photons and quantum
emitters
without the need for optical cavities.
Thursday, 8 January 2015 - Seefeld/Tirol Room - 09:45 - 10:15
Oral Session - THU2s - Quantum Nanosystems I
Chair:Alexandre Zagoskin, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Invited
THU2s-I-01 09:45
Tunable Nanoparticle Lasing Spasers
Teri Odom
Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
This talk will describe how the emission from lattice-plasmon nanolasers can be dynamically tuned
by changing the dielectric environment of the gain media while keeping the nanoparticle-array
cavity fixed.
Thursday, 8 January 2015 - - 10:15 - 10:30
- Break Chair:
Oral Session - THU3o - Sensing III
Chair:
Oral
THU3o-O-01 10:30
Biologically active plasmonic devices – engineering molecular binding sites to
assemble and tune plasmonic nanostructures
Alasdair Clark, Jonathan Cooper
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
We demonstrate biologically-active nano-plasmonic devices whose geometry and optical response
change due to single biomolecular binding events. Fusing direct-write lithography and molecular
self-assembly, these devices enable single binding event detection through colorimetrics and SERS.
Oral
THU3o-O-02 10:45
High-Contrast Nanoparticle Sensing using a Hyperbolic Metamaterial
Henri Lezec1, Ting Xu1, 2, Wenqi Zhu1, 2, Craig Copeland1, 2, Samuel Stavis1, Amit Agrawal1, 2
1
Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, United States
2
Maryland Nanocenter, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Using planar hyperbolic metamaterials composed of alternating layers of metal (Ag) and dielectric
(SiO2), we demonstrate a transmission device for nanoparticle sensing that exhibits extremely high
optical contrast.
Invited
THU3o-I-03 11:00
Plasmonics for Hand-Held Diagnostics and Biotechnology
Hatice Altug1, Arif Cetin1, Ahmet Coskun2, Betty Galarreta3, David Herman2, Aydogan Ozcan2
1
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
2
UCLA, Los Angeles, United States
3
Boston University, Boston, United States
We introduce a hand-held and low-cost plasmonic biosensors combining high-throughput and
label-free protein microarrays with lens-free microscopy and microfluidics. Our technology, less
then 50g in weight and 10cm in height, is suitable for point-of-care diagnsotics.
Oral Session - THU3s - Quantum Nanosystems II
Chair:Alexandre Zagoskin, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Oral
THU3s-O-01 10:30
Van der Waals Interactions in Atom-Metamaterial Hybrid System
Eng Aik Chan1, Syed Abdullah Aljunid1, Giorgio Adamo1, Martial Ducloy1, 2, David Wilkowski1, 3, 4, Nikolay
Zheludev1, 5
1
Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, 637371,
2
Université Paris 13, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, CNRS, (UMR 7538), F-93430,
Villetaneuse, France, Villetaneuse, France
3
Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 117543 Singapore,
Singapore
4
Merlion MajuLab, CNRS-UNS-NUS-NTU International Joint Research Unit UMI 3654,
5
University of Southampton, School of Physics and Astronomy, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK,
Southampton, United Kingdom
We observe the atomic transition frequency shift and the Fano-like modification of selective
reflection spectra of Caesium vapour interacting with photonic metamaterial. The observed changes
are attributed to strong coupling between atomic and plasmonic excitations.
Invited
THU3s-I-02 10:45
Active Plasmonic Devices
Uriel Levy
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The Harvey M. Kreuger Family Center for Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology, Jerusalem, Israel
We demonstrate the importance of nano pyramids for the enhancement of the internal
photoemission efficiency, and the integration of several plasmonic photodetectors on a chip. Finally,
we also demonstrate Doppler free lines and plasmonic-photonic switching in our hybrid atomicalkali vapor system.
Oral
THU3s-O-03 11:15
Quantum Hyperbolic Metamaterials with Atomic Condensates and Bragg Polaritons
Alexander Alodjants1, Sergey Arakelian1, Ivan Iorsh2, Alexey Kavokin3
1
Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Vladimir State University named after A. G.
and N. G. Stoletovs, Vladimir, Russia
2
University of ITMO, St. Petersburg, Russia
3
University of Southampton, School of Physics and Astronomy, Southampton, United Kingdom
We propose a novel mechanism for designing quantum hyperbolic metamaterials with use of
spatially-periodical atomic condensates and/or exciton-polaritons in semiconductor Bragg mirrors.
Some analogues of fundamental cosmological processes occurring with our Universe’s evolution
are discussed.
Oral Session - THU4o - Application I
Chair:Henri Lezec, NIST, Gaithersburg, United States
Invited
THU4o-I-01 11:30
Controlling radiation scattering and emission with gap plasmon resonators
Sergey Bozhevolnyi
University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark
Gap plasmon resonators are considered both for designing efficient metasurfaces that enable control
of phase and amplitude of the reflected radiation and for controlling lifetime and emission channels
of quantum emitters located in their vicinity.
Oral
THU4o-O-02 12:00
Multi-Channel “Traffic Control” with Optical Bridges
Mikhail Lapine1, Alexey Slobozhanyuk2, Ilya Shadrivov2, David Powell2, Ross McPhedran1, Yuri Kivshar2
1
CUDOS, School of Physics, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia, Australia
2
Nonlinear Physics Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia,
Australia
We introduce nonlinear optical bridges between otherwise independent electromagnetic
waveguides. This enables efficient suppression of the transmission over one channel depending on
the power supplied over the other, providing a "traffic light" for the signals.
Oral
THU4o-O-03 12:15
Arbitrary Light Polarization Synthesis and Sorting with Silicon Nanoantennas
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Daniel Puerto, Alba Espinosa-Soria, Amadeu Griol, Alejandro Martínez
Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain
We experimentally demonstrate a universal method to achieve the analysis and sorting of any
arbitrary polarization state of light, spanning the full Poincare sphere, radiated by a single silicon
nanoantenna, with two feeding waveguides.
Oral
THU4o-O-04 12:30
A 1550nm Thermo-Optically Tunable Flat-Lens
Jonathan Pugh1, Jamie Stokes1, Martin Lopez-Garcia1, John Rarity1, Choon-How Gan2, Geoffrey Nash2,
Martin Cryan1
1
University of Bristol Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bristol, United
Kingdom
2
University of Exeter College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Exeter, United
Kingdom
We present a slot-grating flat lens fabricated in a 200nm thick layer of amorphous siliconon-aluminum. The high dn/dT of amorphous silicon has the potential to enable thermo-optic
focusing and steering.
Oral
THU4o-O-05 12:45
Data transmission in long-range dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton
waveguides
Arkadi Chipouline7, Svyatoslav Kharitonov1, Roman Kiselev2, Ashwani Kumar3, Ivan Fernández de Jáuregui
Ruiz4, Xueliang Shi3, 5, Kristján Léosson6, Thomas Pertsch7, Stefan Nolte7, Sergei Bozhevolnyi3
1
Photonic Systems Laboratory, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Station 11, CH-1015
Lausanne, Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
2
Institute of Photonic Technology, PO 100239, D-07702 Jena, Germany, Jena, Germany
3
Department of Technology and Innovation, University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrs Allé 1,
DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark, Odense M, Denmark
4
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, Route de Villejust, 91620 Nozay, France, Nozay, France
5
Department of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
310027, China, Hangzhou, China
6
Department of Physics, Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhaga 3, IS-107 Reykjavik,
Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
7
Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Albert-Einstein Str. 15, D-07745
Jena, Germany, Jena, Germany
We demonstrate the data transmission of 10 Gbit/s NRZ optical signal through a long-range
dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguide. The BER penalties do not exceed 0.6 dB at
few mW of received optical power.
Oral Session - THU4s - Quantum Nanosystems III
Chair:Hatice Altug, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Oral
THU4s-O-01 11:30
Metamaterial Coherent Plasmonic Absorption With a Single Photon
Charles Altuzarra1, Stefano Vezzoli1, Thomas Roger2, Eliot Bolduc2, Joao Valente3, Julius Heitz2, John
Jeffers4, Jonathan Leach2, Christophe Couteau2, 5, 6, Cesare Soci1, Nikolay Zheludev1, 3, Daniele Faccio2,
Thomas Roger2
1
Center for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore,
Singapore
2
Institute for Photonics and Quantum Sciences and SUPA, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburg,
United Kingdom
3
4
Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
5
CINTRA CNRS-NTU-Thales, UMI 3288, Singapore, Singapore
6
Laboratory for Nanotechnology, Instrumentation and Optics, ICD CNRS UMR 6281, University
of Technology of Troyes, Troyes, France
With a plasmonic metamaterial absorber of sub-wavelength thickness we demonstrated that
coherent absorption can be observed even with a single photon that could be coupled with nearly
100% probability into a localized plasmon.
THU4s-I-02 11:45
Invited
Quantum or Semiclassical Plasmonics?
Martijn Wubs
DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Center for Nanostructured Graphene, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
In metal nanoplasmonics, semiclassical theories explain more non-classical phenomena than
hitherto expected, for example size-dependent damping and electronic spill-out. In graphene
plasmonics on the other hand, quantum mechanical edge states play a surprisingly important role.
THU4s-I-03 12:15
Invited
Controlling Subnanometric Plasmonics
Javier Aizpurua
Center for Materials Physics CSIC-UPV/EHU and DIPC, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
The optics of subnanometric nanogaps provides a fantastic tool to explore atomic-scale
morphologies where complex photochemical processes take place. We exploit different classical
and quantum theoretical approaches to address the optics of metallic nanogaps.
THU4s-O-04 12:45
Oral
Quantum Čerenkov Radiation from Electron Vortex Beams
Ido Kaminer1, 2, Amir Levy1, Scott Skirlo1, John D. Joannopoulos1, Marin Soljačić1, Maor Mutzafi2, Gal
Harari2, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux2, Jonathan Nemirovsky2, Mordechai Segev2
1
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Cambridge MA, United States
2
Physics Department and Solid State Institute, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel, Haifa, Israel
Using quantum field theory, we calculate Čerenkov radiation from an electron with a vortex-shape
wavefunction. When it travels through a photonic waveguide, it emits a photon with a specific
frequency, angle, and angular momentum.
Thursday, 8 January 2015 - - 13:00 - 16:00
- Break Chair:
Oral Session - THU5o - Applications II
Chair:Igal Brener, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States
THU5o-I-01 16:00
Invited
Harnessing disorder at the nanoscale: from a liquid black-body for light to
complexity-driven energy harvesters
Andrea Fratalocchi
KAUST University, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
I will discuss a new paradigm of “complexity-driven” photonics, where disorder and chaos provide
an active pathway for developing new nanoscaled applications, ranging from energy harvesting to
bio-imaging and broadband perfect absorbers
Oral
THU5o-O-02 16:30
Dark Mode Plasmonic Crystal
Kyosuke Sakai, Kensuke Nomura, Takeaki Yamamoto, Keiji Sasaki
Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
We theoretically propose plasmonic crystal with dark mode resonance, which promise application in
the field of strong light-matter interactions. Optical properties and excitation scheme using vector
beam is presented.
Oral
THU5o-O-03 16:45
Control of Free-electron Light Emission with Holographic Nanostructures
Guanhai Li1, 2, Brendan Clarke1, Jin-Kyu So1, Kevin F. MacDonald1, Xiaoshuang Chen2, Lu Wei2, Nikolay I.
Zheludev1, 3
1
2
National Key Laboratory for Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Shanghai,
China
3
Singapore
We demonstrate that the direction, spectral composition and wavefront of optical radiation
stimulated by free electrons injected into plasmonic computer-generated holographic nanostructures
can be controlled by the design of the structure.
Oral
THU5o-O-04 17:00
Thermal probe nanolithography for novel photonic devices
Felix Holzner1, Philip Paul1, Colin Rawlings2, Heiko Wolf2, Urs Dürig2, Armin W. Knoll2
1
SwissLitho AG, Zurich, Switzerland
2
IBM Research Zurich, Rüschlikon, Switzerland
A novel alternative to E-beam lithography, in particular for plasmonic and nanophotonic devices, is
presented. Patterning resolution and speed are similar; however, the novel technique enables direct
3D lithography and markerless overlay with sub-5  nm accuracy.
Oral
THU5o-O-05 17:15
Guiding magnetic fields with metamaterials: experimental realizations
Jordi Prat-Camps, Carles Navau, Alvaro Sanchez
Grup d’Electromagnetisme, Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Bellaterra, Spain
We present the experimental realization of two novel devices made of magnetic metamaterials
which allow to shape magnetic fields in unprecedented ways; a magnetic hose to guide static
magnetic fields and a magnetic concentrating shell.
Oral Session - THU5s - Novel Phenomena
Chair:Kevin MacDonald, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
THU5s-I-01 16:00
Invited
Classical and Quantum Features of Static Optics
Ahmed Mahmoud, Nader Engheta
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
We will discuss some of the wave physics and quantum characteristics of light interaction with
structures exhibiting the phenomenon of “static optics”, i.e., electrodynamic platforms with both
relative permittivity and permeability near zero.
Oral
THU5s-O-02 16:30
Plasmoelectric potentials in metal nanostructures
Jorik van de Groep1, Matthew Sheldon2, Ana Brown2, Albert Polman1, Harry Atwater2
1
FOM Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
We demonstrate optically induced surface potentials in both Au colloids and sub-wavelength hole
arrays in 20 nm thin Au films. Using Kelvin probe microscopy we measure wavelength dependent
potentials as high as 100 mV.
Oral
THU5s-O-03 16:45
Nonlinear Gravitational Dynamics of Complex Optical Wavepackets
Rivka Bekenstein, Ran Schley, Maor Mutzafi, Carmel Rotschild, Mordechai Segev
We study the complex dynamics of accelerating wavepackets interacting with a high power beam in
thermal nonlocal nonlinear media, arising from the interplay between interference effects and
optical analogues of tidal forces and gravitational lensing
THU5s-O-04 17:00
Oral
Experimental Study of Spin-Orbit Coupling and Far Field Scattering of Surface
Plasmons by Nanostructures: Role of Transverse Spin
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, Daniel O'Connor, Pavel Ginzburg, Gregory A. Wurtz, Anatoly V. Zayats
King´s College London, London, United Kingdom
The transverse spin carried by surface plasmons is intimately linked to their scattering after
impinging on a nanostructure. Circular polarizations of opposite handedness are radiated into
mirror-symmetric directions, dependent on the plasmon propagation direction.
- Short Coffee Break Chair:
Breakthrough Talk - THU6o - Breakthrough Talk III
Chair:Steven Anlage, University of Maryland, College Park, United States
Breakthrough
THU6o-K-01 18:30
Quantum Nanophotonics
Mikhail Lukin
Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
We will discuss recent developments at a new scientific interface between quantum optics and
nanophotonics that involve individual ultracold atoms and atom-like solid-state emitters strongly
coupled with nanophotonic devices.
Breakthrough Talk - THU6s - Breakthrough Talk IV
Chair:Mark Stockman, Center for Nano-Optics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States
Breakthrough
THU6s-K-01 18:30
Quantum Integrated Plasmonics
Harry Atwater
T. J. Watson Laboratories of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United
States
We demonstrate entanglement of plasmons in chip-based integrated structures, via two-photon
quantum interference in plasmonic waveguide directional couplers, and path entanglement in
photonic circuits using thermo-optic phase shifters for phase tuning. We discuss implications for
coherent plasmons in integrated photonic structures.
Award Ceremony - THU7o - 2015 EPS-QEOD Prize for Research into the Science of
Light
Chair:Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton, UK & NTU Singapore, ., United Kingdom
The Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society is delighted to announce the
2015 winner of the Prize for Research into the Science of Light. This Prize is awarded every two years and
recognizes a recent work by one or more individuals for scientific excellence in the area of electromagnetic
science in its broadest sense, across the entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves. The 2015 Prize for
Research into the Science of Light is awarded to Miles Padgett, Professor at the Department of Physics and
Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom. The Prize is awarded to Professor Padgett
for “internationally recognised work on optical momentum, including an optical spanner, use of orbital
angular momentum in communication systems and an angular form of EPR paradox”.
- THU8o - Student Poster Award and Closing Remarks: Nikolay Zheludev and Harald
Giessen
Chair:
The closing remarks will be followed by an after conference presentation "There is plenty of light at the
bottom" (by N. Zheludev).
- THU9f - Beer Reception
Chair:

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