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Light-Matter Interactions Towards the Nanoscale

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  • © 2022

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Editors:
  1. Maura Cesaria

    1. Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

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  2. Antonio Calà Lesina

    1. Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

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  3. John Collins

    1. Norton, USA

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  • Includes a special chapter on simulations of nanoplasmonic systems
  • Provides information on symmetry and topology in optical systems
  • Emphasis on fundamental ideas and a pedagogical approach

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Table of contents (47 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Lectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Plasmonic Effects on Photonic Processes and Devices

      • Sergey V. Gaponenko
      Pages 3-18

    3. Surface Plasmon-Mediated Decay Processes of Ions in Solids

      • John Collins, Kailash Mishra
      Pages 19-42

    4. Workshop in Computational Nanophotonics

      • Antonio Calà Lesina, Lora Ramunno
      Pages 43-57

    5. Interaction Between a Plasmonic Nano-Resonator and a Whispering Gallery Mode Photonic Resonator Described Through Coupled Mode Theory and Experiment

      • Stephen Arnold, Jiachen Wan, Kaitlynn M. Snyder, Mohammed Ali Miri
      Pages 59-69

    6. Time Reversal Symmetry and Topology in Electromagnetics

      • Mário G. Silveirinha
      Pages 71-87

    7. All-Dielectric Nonlinear Meta-Optics

      • Giuseppe Marino, Carlo Gigli, Valerio F. Gili, Giuseppe Leo
      Pages 89-124

    8. Nanophotonic Circuits forUnconventional Computing Applications

      • Wolfram Pernice
      Pages 125-132

    9. Terahertz Light-Matter Interactions at the Nanoscale

      • John W. Bowen
      Pages 133-145

    10. An Alternative Starting Point for Electromagnetism

      • Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton
      Pages 147-162

    11. Absorption, Emission, and Vacuum Fluctuations

      • Markus Pollnau
      Pages 163-173

    12. Nd3+ Ion as a Structural Probe in Studies of Selected Oxide Host Lattices: Coupling the Low-Temperature High-Resolution Spectroscopic Techniques with Microscopy

      • M. Guzik, G. Boulon, Y. Guyot, E. Tomaszewicz, M. Bieza, J. Legendziewicz et al.
      Pages 175-217

    13. Research of Efficient and Fast Scintillator Garnet Crystals: The Role of Ce4+ in Ce3+, Mg2+-Co-Doped Gd3Al2Ga3O12 from Spectroscopic and XANES Characterizations

      • Georges Boulon, Y. Guyot, Małgorzata. Guzik, G. Dantelle, D. Testemale, S. Kurosawa et al.
      Pages 219-236

  3. Short Seminars

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. Refractive Index Sensing by Phase Shift Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy

      • Rana M. Armaghan Ayaz, Yigit Uysalli, Nima Bavili, Berna Morova, M. Imran Cheema, Alper Kiraz
      Pages 239-241

    3. Hyperpolarizability of Plasmonic Nanostructures: A Method to Quantify the SHG Emission from a Metasurface

      • Joshua Baxter, Antonio Calà Lesina, Lora Ramunno
      Pages 243-245

    4. Nonlinear Up- and Down-Conversion in AlGaAs Microdisks Integrated in a Photonic Circuit

      • Adrien Borne, Iännis Roland, Marco Ravaro, Giuseppe Marino, Stefan Suffit, Pascal Filloux et al.
      Pages 247-249

    5. Tuning of Phonons and Surface Phonon Polaritons

      • Vanessa M. Breslin, Andrea B. Grafton, Daniel C. Ratchford, Alexander J. Giles, Kenan P. Fears, Christopher R. So et al.
      Pages 251-253

    6. Defect-Related Optical Properties of ZnO Nanoparticles in ZnO/SiO2 Systems

      • Roberta Crapanzano, Irene Villa, Barbara Di Credico, Massimiliano D’Arienzo, Mauro Fasoli, Silvia Mostoni et al.
      Pages 255-257
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About this book

The investigation of light-matter interactions in materials, especially those on the nanoscale, represents perhaps the most promising avenue for scientific progress in the fields of photonics and plasmonics. This book examines a variety of topics, starting from fundamental principles, leading to the current state of the art research.  For example,  this volume includes a chapter on the sensing of biological molecules with optical resonators (microspheres) combined with plasmonic systems, where the response this  system are described in a fundamental and elegant manner using coupled mode theory. Symmetry plays a major role in the book. One chapter on time reversal symmetry in electromagnetic theory describes how to control the properties of light (e.g. scattering and directionality of the flow of light)  in materials with certain topological invariants. Another chapter where symmetry is prominent  reformulates, using a gentle and pedagogical approach, Maxwell’sEquations into a new set of fields that reveal a “handedness” symmetry in electromagnetic theory, which can be applied to photonic systems in, for example, the sensing of chiral molecules and understanding the conditions for zero reflection. Also, for students and researchers starting in the field of nanoplasmonics, the book includes a tutorial on the finite element time domain simulation of nanoplasmonic systems. Other topics include photonic systems for quantum computing, nanoplasmonics, and optical properties of nano and bulk materials. The authors take a pedagogical approach to their topic, making the book an excellent reference for graduate students and scientists starting in the fields of photonics or plasmonics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

    Maura Cesaria

  • Hannover Centre for Optical Technologies, Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Antonio Calà Lesina

  • Norton, USA

    John Collins

About the editors

Dr. Cesaria graduated in Physics cum laude in 2008 and received her Ph.D. degree in Physics in 2012 at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). From then on, she worked for the University of Florence and the IMM-CNR Institute (unit of Lecce—Italy). Currently, she is a Research Fellow at the Physics Department of the University of Salento. Since 2013 she contributed to the organization of the biannual Spectroscopy School held at the Majorana Foundation (Erice, Italy) and to studies on white-light emitting nanophosphors as a Visiting Scholar at Boston College (MA, USA). Her main research experiences include itinerant ferromagnetism, pulsed laser deposition of bulk and nanostructured inorganic/organic materials, microfluidics, liposomes, colloidal lithography, gold nanoholes, inorganic perovskites, and neutron detectors.


Antonio Calà Lesina is an Associate Professor (tenure-track) at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, since 2020. His research interests focuson nanophotonics design, topology optimization, and large-scale multiphysics simulation. He obtained his B.Sc. in electronics engineering (2006) and M.Sc. in telecommunications engineering (2009) from the University of Catania, Italy, and his Ph.D. in computational electromagnetics (2013) from the University of Trento, Italy. From 2013 to 2020, he was a researcher at the University of Ottawa, Canada, working on computational nanophotonics, plasmonic colouring, and nonlinear/tunable optical metasurfaces. He attended three NATO Institutes on nanophotonics in Erice, Italy, in 2015, 2017 and 2019 (the latter as a member of the organizing team).

 

Prof. Collins received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 1987, and has been a member in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Wheaton College since 1989. His research interests are in the general area of the interaction of radiation with matter. He is an experimental physicist trained in the field of luminescencespectroscopy of solids doped with transition metal and rare earth ions. Specific areas of interest include energy transfer, nonradiative processes, luminescence in nanosystems, and plasmonic effects on radiative and non-radiative processes of excited ions in solids. Prof. Collins has co-edited several books and journal volumes on topics such as spectroscopy of solids, nano-optics, biophotonics, and visible and infrared phosphors, and has authored or co-authored numerous articles and book chapters.

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