Invited Keynote Talks (Chair: Kurt Busch)

Monday, July 7

09:10-09:20 Opening remarks (Ch. Hafner)

09:20-10:00 Vahid Sandoghdar, H. Eghlidi, N. M. Mojarad, G. Zumofen, S. Götzinger, M. Agio: Optimizing the interaction of light and matter using plasmonics (Abstract)

10:00-10:40 Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi: NanoPlasmonics: Mega-Fields and Nano-Guides (Abstract)

10:40-11:20 Esteban Moreno: Guiding and Focusing of Plasmons (Abstract)

11:20-12:00 Lukas Novotny, Stefano Palomba: Nonlinear Plasmonics (Abstract)

Plasmonics (Chair: Daniel Erni)

13:50:14:10 Aytac Alparslan: Thickness Dependent Behavior of Surface Waves and Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Layered Media (Abstract)

14:10-14:30 Y. Ekinci, M. Agio, A. Christ, O. J. F. Martin, H. H. Solak, J. F. Löffler: Energy and lifetime of the electric and magnetic resonances of gold-nanosandwich metamaterials (Abstract)

14:30-14:50 Nahid Talebi, M.Shahabadi: Plasmonic couplers (Abstract)

14:50-15:10 Nassir Mojarad, V. Sandoghdar, M. Agio: Plasmon excitation of nanospheres by tightly focused beams (Abstract)

15:10-15:30 Takumi Sannomiya, Ch. Hafner , J. Vörös: Sensitivity study of a plasmonic gold nano particle by observing single particle binding event (Abstract)

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:20 Kakhaber Tavzarashvili, D. Karkashadze, G. Ghvedashvili, Ch. Hafner: MAS for eigenvalue problems of plasmonic structures (Abstract)

16:20-16:40 Patrick Leidenberger, J. Smajic, Ch. Hafner, B. Cranganu-Cretu: Analysis of Channel Plasmon Polaritons Enhanced Optical Nano Antennas (Abstract)

16:40-17:00 Michael Bergmair, K. Hingerl: Coupled Surface States in Thin, Frequency Dependent Layers (Abstract)

17:00-17:20 Andreas Hille, R.Kullock, T.Göhler, S.Grafström, L.M. Eng: Plasmon enhanced external quantum efficiency of LEDs (Abstract)

Evening: 18:00-??:?? Apéro and BBQ on the roof of the ETZ / ETL building

Tuesday, July 8

Photonic crystals and various applications (Chair: Mario Agio)

08:40-09:00 P. Friedli, R. Kappeler, P. Kaspar, H. Jaeckel: Electrical Characterization of Active Photonic Crystals (Abstract)

09:00-09:20 R. Kappeler, P. Kaspar, P. Strasser, H. Jäckel: The Importance of Understanding Losses in Photonic Crystal Waveguides for Communication Photonics (Abstract)

09:20-09:40 C. Fraschina, S. Duetsch, P. Strasser, R. Kappeler, H. Jaeckel: Optimization of Photonic Crystal Waveguides forOperation in the Slow Light Regime (Abstract)

09:40-10:00 Vincent Paeder, Q. Tan, W. Nakagawa, I. Märki, H. P. Herzig: Design of a tunable photonic crystal cavity in a liquid crystal environment (Abstract)

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

10:30-10:50 Irina Khromova, L. Melnikov: Anisotropic photonic crystals: Brilloiun zone symmetry and generalized plane wave method (Abstract)

10:50-11:10 Friedhard Römer, Bernd Witzigmann: Spectral and Spatial Emission Properties of Photonic Crystal Microcavities (Abstract)

11:10-11:30 Igor Meglinski, M. Kirillin, B. Veksler, A. Lemelle: Optical Coherence Tomography imaging contrast enhancement with the application of gold nano-particles (Abstract)

11:30-11:50 Ralf Vogelgesang, Klaus Kern: Analytical Models for the Recorded Signal in Apertureless Scanning Nearfield Optical Microscopy (Abstract)

11:50-12:10 Christian Engström: Wave propagation in photonic crystals with anomalous dispersion (Abstract)

Numerical methods (Chair: Jasmin Smajic)

13:20-13:40 J. Smajic, Ch. Hafner, L. Raguin, K. Tavzarshvili, M. Mishrikey: Comparison of numerical methods for the analysis of plasmonic structures (Abstract)

13:40: 14:00 Kurt Busch, Jan Gieseler, Michael König, Jens Niegemann, Kai Stannigel, Lasha Tkeshelashvili: Higher-Order Time-Domain Methods for the Analysis of Nano-Photonic Systems (Abstract)

14:00-14:20 Thomas Kaufmann: Radial Point Interpolation Method: A Meshless Method for Time-Domain Electromagnetics (Abstract)

14:20-14:40 Philipp Kreuter, Bernd Witzigmann: Combined analytical-FDTD full wave simulation of mode-locked vertical-extended-cavity semiconductor lasers (Abstract)

14:40-15:00 Ahmad Mohammadi, M. Agio: Dispersive contour-path FDTD algorithm for modeling plasmon resonances in metal nanostructures (Abstract)

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-15:50 Benedikt Oswald, P. Leidenberger: Electromagnetic fields scattered by subwavelength-sized tip Finite element time domain (FETD) model with a dispersive Drude dielectric (Abstract)

15:50-16:10 H. Eghlidi, Ch. Hafner, M. Agio: Symmetry of Maxwell Equations in Structures with Electric and Magnetic Properties (Abstract)

16:10-16:30 Matthew Mishrikey, A. Fallahi, Ch. Hafner, L. Braginsky, V. Shklover, R. Vahldieck: Effective index appproximations of graded porous metamaterials (Abstract)

16:30-16:50 D. Karkashadze, K. Tavzarashvili, D. Kakulia, G. Ghvedashvili, Ch. Hafner: MAS Simulation and Design of Metamaterials (Abstract)

16:50-17:10 Xudong Cui, D. Erni, Ch. Hafner: MMP simulation of optical forces acting on a metallic nanoparticle within a photonic nanojet (Abstract)

17:10-17:20 Closing remarks (Ch. Hafner)

Wednesday, July 9

Short course on MaX-1 software for plasmonics and optical nano structures

9:15-16:00, ETZ K91

Ch. Hafner

Overview over numerical methods for plasmonics (time domain / frequency domain; domain discretization / boundary discretization)
Principles of the Multiple Multipole Program (multipole expansions, generalized point matching, eigenvalue solvers)
Plasmonic scattering problems (2D, 3D axi-symmetric, full 3D problems; ring multipoles and complex origin multipoles)
Simulation of optical antennas and sensors (field enhancement near corners, wedges, grooves, triple points)
Plasmonic waveguide simulations (complex eigenvalue solvers)
Simulations of metallic photonic crystals (flat bands, slow waves, band diagrams, impact of losses and dispersion)
The MaX-1 software package (graphic input/output, formula input, field representation, animation, directives, post-processing)
Discussions