Invited speakers
- Javier García de Abajo, ICFO – Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
Quantum Physics with Plasmons in Graphene and other Atomic-Scale Systems - Kurt Busch, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
Atom-Surface Interaction: Theory and Computations - Dmitry Chigrin, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Multiphysics simulations in nanophotonics - Niels Gregersen, DTU Fotonik, Lyngby, Denmark
Benchmarking state-of-the-art optical simulation methods for analyzing large nanophotonic structures - Francesco Michelotti, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Theory and concepts for all-dielectric biosensing - Sendy Phang, University of Nottingham, UK
Non-Hermitian Photonics from Parity-Time Symmetry to Pseudo-Hermitian Structures - Carsten Rockstuhl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Design of integrated quantum optical single-photon detectors - Andreas Trügler, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria
Plasmon and phonon polariton mapping in an electron microscope
OWTNM 2018 program leaflet
(.pdf, state of April 04, 2018)
Last-minute changes
- Swap of papers O-4.1 and O-8.1.
- Cancellation of poster P-20.
Workshop schedule
Thursday, April 12
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception & early registration |
Friday, April 13
| 08:00 - 16:00 | Registration |
| 08:55 | Welcome address |
| 09:00 - 10:15 | O-1: Functional devices |
| Coffee | |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | O-2: Quantum optics / active devices |
| Lunch | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | O-3: Numerical methods |
| Coffee | |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | O-4: Waveguide theory |
| Drinks | |
| 16:30 - 18:30 | Poster session |
| 19:00 | Workshop dinner |
Saturday, April 14
| 09:00 - 10:15 | O-5: Plasmonics |
| Coffee | |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | O-6: Nonlinear photonics |
| Lunch | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | O-7: Biosensing and metamaterials |
| Coffee | |
| 15:00 - 16:15 | O-8: Functional (nano-) photonics |
| 16:15 | Closing remarks |
Technical program
Friday 09:00 - 10:15, O-1: Functional devices (chair: S. Helfert)
| 09:00 - 09:30 | O-1.1 | D.N. Chigrin (invited), Multiphysics simulations in nanophotonics |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | O-1.2 | L. Ebers, M. Hammer, J. Förstner, Slab waveguide steps with rounded corners at oblique incidence |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | O-1.3 | N. Dhingra, J.C. Song, G.J. Saxena, E.K. Sharma, B.M.A. Rahman, Germanium Telluride Phase Change Material based 1×2 Electro-Optic Switch |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | O-1.4 | A.E. Kaplan, A. Parini, G. Bellanca, P. Bassi, S. Trillo, A Compact Wavelength Router Dynamically Reconfigurable through Destructive Interference |
Friday 10:45 - 12:00, O-2: Quantum optics / active devices (chair: I. Richter)
| 10:45 - 11:15 | O-2.1 | J. Münzberg, A. Vetter, F. Beutel, W. Hartmann, S. Ferrari, W. Pernice, C. Rockstuhl (invited), Design of integrated quantum optical single-photon detectors |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | O-2.2 | P.-I. Schneider, L. Zschiedrich, X. Garcia-Santiago, S. Burger, Optimization of quantum optical devices with machine learning |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | O-2.3 | F. Spallek, A. Buchleitner, T. Wellens, Upconversion in optimized photonic multilayer structures |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | O-2.4 | H. Lüder, M. Gerken, FDTD modelling of nanostructured OLEDs: analysis of simulation parameters for accurate radiation patterns |
Friday 13:00 - 14:30, O-3: Numerical methods (chair: C. Wächter)
| 13:00 - 13:30 | O-3.1 | N. Gregersen, J.R. de Lasson, L.H. Frandsen, O.S. Kim, O. Breinbjerg, F. Wang, O. Sigmund, A. Ivinskaya, A. Lavrinenko, P. Gutsche, S. Burger, T. Häyrynen, J. Mørk (invited), Benchmarking state-of-the-art optical simulation methods for analyzing large nanophotonic structures |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | O-3.2 | G. Granet, Multidomain spectral method for optical-waveguide analysis |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | O-3.3 | H. Kleene, D. Schulz, An Assessment of Faber Polynomial Expansions for the Time Domain Solution of Maxwell’s equations |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | O-3.4 | M.M.R. Elsawy, G. Renversez, Vector solver for 2D highly nonlinear plasmonic waveguides: a rigorous analysis |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | O-3.5 | R. Kumar, A. Sharma, Analysis of Absorption in the Absorbing Boundary Condition |
Friday 15:00 - 16:30, O-4: Waveguide theory (chair: M. Hammer)
| 15:00 - 15:30 | O-8.1 | J. García de Abajo (invited), Quantum Physics with Plasmons in Graphene and other Atomic-Scale Systems |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | O-4.2 | L. Cahill, Field Solutions for Large Area Graded-Index Waveguides |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | O-4.3 | P. Kwieicen, I. Richter, V. Kuzmiak, J. Čtyroký, Magnetooptic Rigorous Coupled Wave Analysis – numerical investigation of nonreciprocal waveguiding structures |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | O-4.4 | A.-L. Fehrembach, B. Gralak, A. Sentenac, Vectorial semi-analytical model for Fano resonances in guided mode resonance gratings |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | O-4.5 | L. Yuan, Y.Y. Lu, Bound States in the Continuum Surrounded by Ultra-strong Resonances |
Friday 16:30 - 18:30, Posters
- P-01 D. Pereira-Martín, A. Sánchez-Postigo, A. Hadij-Elhouati, D.-X. Xu, P. Cheben, R. Halir, Í. Molina-Fernández, A. Ortega-Moñux, J.G. Wangüemert-Pérez,
Automatic design of high-performance fiber-chip surface grating couplers based on Floquet-Bloch mode analysis - P-02 G. Demésy, G. Renversez,
Full-vector finite element 3D model for waveguide-based plasmonic sensors - P-03 A.A. Shcherbakov, T. Kämpfe, Y. Jourlin,
Simulation of luminescence in periodically structured layers based on direct S-matrix calculation - P-04 A.A. Shcherbakov,
Using spline interpolation for grating geometry description within the curvilinear coordinate Generalized Source Method - P-05 T. Aso, T. Ishiguro, J. Yamauchi, H. Nakano,
Reduction in Bend Loss of a Si-wire Waveguide by Adjusting the Core Location - P-06 J. Yamauchi, Y. Nakagawa, T. Tsuchiya, H. Nakano,
A Polarization Converter Consisting of a Bent Si-wire Waveguide - P-07 J. Yamauchi, N. Takahashi, H. Ito, H. Nakano,
Polarization-dependent and -independent Absorbers with a Periodic Metal Grating - P-08 J. Yamauchi, K. Shimada, R. Ando, H. Nakano,
Effectiveness of a Curvilinear Taper in Waveguide Applications - P-09 J. Yamauchi, R. Nakada, H. Nakano,
Study of a Quarter-wave Plate Using an Array of Cross-shaped Apertures in a Metallic Plate - P-10 J. Yamauchi, Y. Tanaka, S. Yoshino, H. Nakano,
Study of Perforated Metal Sheets Based on Square and Rectangular Lattices - P-11 J. Yamauchi, T. Okawachi, D. Shimamura, H. Nakano,
Orthogonal Polarization Rotator for Arbitrary Incidence Plane of Polarization - P-12 S.F. Helfert, J. Jahns,
Application of the Talbot-effect to the structured illumination of hollow waveguide arrays: numerical simulations - P-13 V. Burdin, A. Bourdine,
A System of Nonlinear Characteristic Equations for Two-Mode Propagation in Step-Index Optical Fiber - P-14 A. Bourdine, V. Burdin,
Simulation and Research of Few-Mode Optical Fiber DMD Degradation due to Geometry Deviation From Optimized Form - P-15 A. Waqas, D. Melati, A. Melloni,
Polynomial chaos based stochastic augmented building block for process design kits - P-16 S. Sunder, A. Sharma,
Evolution of Modes in Photonic Lanterns - P-17 M. Hammer, L. Ebers, J. Förstner,
Oblique quasi-lossless excitation of a thin silicon slab waveguide - P-18 P. Pareek, N. Malviya, V. Palodiya,
Steady State Analysis of SiGeSn/GeSn Interband MQWIP - P-19 A. Abdrabou, Y.Y. Lu,
Families of Exceptional Points in Period Slabs - P-20 M. Balasubrahmaniyam, A. Nahata, S. Mujumdar,
Anderson Localization in 1D plasmonic terahertz waveguides - P-21 C. Spenner, H. Kleene, P. Sarapukdee, K. Kallis, D. Schulz,
Analysis of SiO2- and MgF2-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors - P-22 F. Binkowski, L. Zschiedrich, S. Burger,
Analysis of light-matter interaction of optical sources with dispersive nanoresonators via contour integration - P-23 M.H. Muhammad, K.R. Mahmoud, M.F.O. Hameed, S.S.A. Obayya,
Optimization of Random Grating Thin Film Solar Cell - P-24 A.H.K. Mahmoud, M.F.O. Hameed, M. Hussein, S.S.A. Obayya,
Highly efficient light trapping design for thin film solar cell - P-25 Y. Abd El Hak, A.M.A. Said, S.S.A. Obayya,
Blocked Schur for Optical Discontinuity Analysis in Cylindrical Coordinates - P-26 K.S.R. Atia, A.M. Heikal, S.S.A. Obayya,
Mass Redistributed Finite Element Time Domain Beam Propagation Method for Photonic Devices - P-27 J.A.H. Odoeze, M.F.O. Hameed, H.M.H. Shalabyz, S.S.A. Obayya,
Novel Design of Photonic Crystal Fiber TE-Pass Polarizer
Saturday 09:00 - 10:15, O-5: Plasmonics (chair: J. Čtyroký)
| 09:00 - 09:30 | O-5.1 | A. Trügler (invited), Plasmon and phonon polariton mapping in an electron microscope |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | O-5.2 | M. Burda, P. Kwiecien, I. Richter, Nonlocal resonant behavior in plasmonic nanostructures: analytical and numerical approaches |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | O-5.3 | V. Myroshnychenko, N. Nishio, F.J. García de Abajo, J. Förstner, N. Yamamoto, Nanoscale Imaging of Plasmon Modes of Metal Nanoparticles by Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | O-5.4 | T. Weiss, E.A. Muljarov, On the mechanisms of plasmon-enhanced chiroptical response |
Saturday 10:45 - 12:00, O-6: Nonlinear Photonics (chair: D. Schulz)
| 10:45 - 11:15 | O-6.1 | K. Busch (invited), Atom-Surface Interaction: Theory and Computations |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | O-6.2 | W. Spiller, The numerical investigation of colliding optical solitons as an all-optical-Gate using the Method of Lines (MoL) |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | O-6.3 | V. Jandieri, R. Khomeriki, D. Erni, W.C. Chew, All-Optical Digital Amplification in Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Waveguides |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | O-6.4 | I. Allayarov, S. Upendar, M.A. Schmidt, T. Weiss, A New Definition for the Kerr Nonlinearity Parameter |
Saturday 13:00 - 14:30, O-7: Biosensing and metamaterials (chair: J. Förstner)
| 13:00 - 13:30 | O-7.1 | F. Michelotti (invited), Theory and concepts for all-dielectric biosensing |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | O-7.2 | M.Y. Azab, M.F.O. Hameed, A.M. Nasr, S.S.A. Obayya, Multifunctional Plasmonic Photonic Crystal Fiber Biosensor |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | O-7.3 | T. Repän, A. Novitsky, M. Willatzen, A. Lavrinenko, Reversed phase propagation for hyperbolic surface waves |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | O-7.4 | S.A. Hack, J.J.W. van der Vegt, W.L. Vos, “Cartesian” light: Unconventional propagation of light in a 3D crystal of bandgap cavities |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | O-7.5 | J. Čtyroký, P. Kwiecien, I. Richter, J.H. Schmid, J. Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez, Í. Molina-Fernández, A. Ortega-Moñux, P. Cheben, J. Litvik, M. Dado, Design of Apodized and Chirped Bragg Gratings in Subwavelength Grating Metamaterial Waveguides |
Saturday 15:00 - 16:15, O-8: Functional (nano-) photonics (chair: A.-L. Fehrembach)
| 15:00 - 15:30 | O-4.1 | S. Phang, A. Vukovic, F. Fotsa-Ngaffo, G. Gradoni, S.C. Creagh, P.D. Sewell, T. Benson (invited), Non-Hermitian Photonics from Parity-Time Symmetry to Pseudo-Hermitian Structures |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | O-8.2 | D.S. Kumar, S.C. Creagh, S. Sujecki, T.M. Benson, Modelling capture of pump power in the core using deformed step index fibre |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | O-8.3 | F. Negredo, M. Blaicher, A. Nesic, P. Kraft, J. Ott, W. Döfler, C. Koos, C. Rockstuhl, Efficient Optimization of the Trajectory of Photonic Wire Bonds |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | O-8.4 | M.V. Cojocari, A.A. Basharin, Spatial separation of electric and magnetic field in toroidal metamaterial |