The course covers principles of nano-optics, i.e. how to control light on scales below its wavelength, addressing theoretical and experimental challenges. A special emphasis is put on light-matter interaction, e.g strong light-matter coupling.
Introduction (overview, motivation, history)
Focusing of light I (basics, spectrum of flat waves)
Focusing of light II (full vector theory of focus, gauss rays)
Confocal microscopy, point spread function, focal engineering, far field,
Super-resolution: stimulated emission depletion, structured illumination, nonlinear structured Illumination
Optical Near Field Microscopy
Fundamentals of Single Emitter Detection I (Fundamentals, Quantum Emitters)
Fundamentals of single emitter detection II (measurement methods, photon statistics, Indistinguible photons)
Plasmons I (bulk-, surface plasmons)
Plasmons II (surface plasmons, excitation and 2D optics)
Plasmons III (wire-, and particle plasmons)
Antennas for light I (motivation, rf antennas, basics of antennas for light)
Light emission in nano environments I (spontanous emission in inhomogeneous Environments, density of states, Green’s function)
Light emission in nano environments II (super-emitter, reciprocity, Greffet Formalism)
Photonic crystals, metamaterials, metasurfaces I
Photonic crystals, metamaterials, metasurfaces II
Coupled-mode theory I (mechanical model, strong coupling)
Coupled-mode theory II (Jaynes-Cummings model, Tavis-Cummings model)
Coupled-mode theory III (non-hermitian dynamics & exceptional points)
Optical forces I (Maxwell stress tensor, light pressure, optical tweezers)
Optical forces II (Plasmonic nanomotors, Microdrones)
Special topics I
Special topics II
The students will be ready to enter at the forefront of research in nano-optics and they will be able to read, understand and evaluate newly published literature in the field.
Electrodynamics, basic quantum theory
Principles of Nano-Optics, 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, 2025
lectures and take-home exercise sheets to be discussed and presented by students during exercise lessons.
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