[Audio] ECE 695s Nanophotonics: Recent Episodes
Vladimir M. Shalaev
Welcome to the ECE 695S lectures
The course will cover nanoscale processes and devices and their applications for manipulating light on the nanoscale. The following topics will be covered:
- Fundamentals, Maxwell’s equations, light-matter interaction, dispersion, EM properties of nanostructures, etc.
- Photonic crystals
- Photonic crystal fibers
- Photonic nanocircuits
- Metal optics
- Manipulating light with plasmonic nanostructures
- Plasmonic nano-sensors
- Near-field optics
- Metamaterials, negative refractive index and super-resolution
Course Information Website
A subsequent version of this lecture is available in a three lecture short course Metamaterials: A New Paradigm of Physics and Engineering.
NearfieldScanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM )is a relatively new technology that defeats the diffraction limit for optical measurements by utilizing the near field portion of electromagnetism to window down to ~ 10 nm spatial resolution. NSOM instrumentation has progressively developed over the past 15 years, to the point where several different basic techniques are available as commercial instruments The principles of NSOM are very much in play within the research community. NSOM has many different applications ranging from biological studies to nanofabrication. This tutorial provides a basic introduction to NSOM.
A subsequent version of this lecture is available in a three lecture short course Metamaterials: A New Paradigm of Physics and Engineering.