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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 TimeDomain 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 subwavelengthsized 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
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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