Monday, July 7

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

Invited Keynote Talks (Chair: Kurt Busch)

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