| Nonlinear optics and nanophotonics |
| Organizer: |
| Yuri Kivshar ( Australian National University, Australia ) |
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| Nanophotonics deals with optical processes at the nanoscale, much smaller than the wavelength of optical radiation. Subwavelength confinement of electromagnetic radiation presents numerous opportunities for both fundamental research and technological applications. This symposium aims to bring together several key researchers working on innovative concepts of nonlinear nanoscale photonics for a design and operation of new compact nanoscaled devices for optical physics and applications. This will cover theoretical and experimental research on the photonic-crystal physics and engineering, subwavelength nonlinear optics, nonlinear switching optical devices at the nanoscale, tunable and active plasmonic structures, and nonlinear soft-matter systems including nanosuspensions. |
| Importantly, the research efforts during recent years which focused on both fundamental physics and applications of nonlinear optics demonstrate several major trends. First, the basic concepts of nonlinear optics penetrated into new areas of material science by exploring novel nonlinear materials and nonlinear propagation of light in engineered structures such as left-handed metamaterials. Secondly, we observe further development of novel concepts, such as tunable nonlinear response, and engineered and enhanced nonlinearities, which should be explored more extensively for developing novel optical tunable nonlinear devices. Moreover, in such novel structures many of the effects well studied in nonlinear optics can be enhanced by the cavity effects, heterostructures, or Fano-type resonances, which enable much stronger nonlinear response at lower powers, as well as demonstrate novel subwavelength localization phenomena and novel concepts of nonlinear wave physics. |
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| List of Speakers: |
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| 1) Dragomir Neshev ( Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ) |
| "Nonlinear beam manipulation in coupled optical waveguides" |
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| 2) Shanhui Fan ( Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A. ) |
| "Photonic transitions in nanophotonics: optical isolation and
completely controllable single-pole optical resonance" |
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| 3) George Tsironis ( University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece ) |
| "Nonlinear localized and propagating modes in metamaterials" |
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| 4) Costantino De Angelis ( University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy ) |
| "Frequency addressing of nano-objects by electrical tuning of optical antennas" |
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| 5) Yuri Kivshar ( Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ) |
| "Nonlinear Metamaterial and Plasmonic Structures" |
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| 6) Alexander Szameit ( University of Jena, Germany & Technion, Israel ) |
| "Amorphous photonic lattices: disorder, band gaps, and
effective mass" |
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| 7) Yaroslav Kartashov ( ICFO, Barcelona, Spain ) |
| "Observation of two-dimensional superlattice solitons" |
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| 8) Meir Orenstein ( Technion, Haifa, Israel ) |
| "Plasmonic nonlinearities at propagation and storage" |
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| 9) Dmitry Skryabin ( University of Bath, England ) |
| "Spectral signatures of temporal solitons in subwavelength waveguide arrays: Theory and experiment" |
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| 10) Concita Sibilia *M.Centini & *A.Benedetti ( Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy ) |
| "Nonlinear Optics at the Nanoscale" |
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| * coauthor |
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