The lecture will start on April 17, 2023 and is given on campus in WA. The key for this Moodle course will be distributed in the first lecture.
Lecture about interaction of electromagnetic waves with structures in the nanometer range.
- Fundamentals of periodic structures in optics
- Special topics in thin-film optics
- 2D and 3D Photonic Crystals and their application, e.g. waveguides, filters, fibers, Fano resonances, surface states
- Optics with metallic nanostructures and their application. Plasmonics, surface states, localized states, applications
- Properties of optical materials, origin of the refractive index, Kramers-Kronig relations, non-linear optics.
- Effective index methods, Clausisus-Mosotti theory, models, applications.
- Left-handed materials, metamaterials und metasurfaces
- Opto-mechanics, optical tweezers, cavity opto-mechanics, ponderomotive force.