Quantum Nano-Photonics, 1st ed. 2018 NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics Series

Part 1: ​Lectures.- 1.Sergey. Gaponenko – Nano-Photonics with and without Photons.- 2.Lukas Novotny – Quantum Sensing and Engineering.- 3.Maura Cesaria and Baldassare Di Bartolo – Nanophosphoros: from rare earth activated multicolo-tuning to new efficient white light sources.- 4.John Collins - Non-Radiative Processes In Crystals and Nanocrystals.- 5.Jean-Pierr Wolf – Quantum Aspects of Biophotonics.- 6. Lora Ramunno – Simulations in Nano-Photonics.- 7.John Bowen - Terahertz Nanoscale Science and Technology.- 8.Fabrizio Pinto – Casimir Forces: Fundamental Theory, Computation, and Nano-device Applications.- 9. Diana Adliene – Nano-materials and Nano-technologies for Photon Radiation Enhanced Cancer Treatment.- 10.Oliver Benson – Fundamental Experiments and Quantum Technology Applications with Defect Centres in Diamond.- 11.Hilmi Volkan Demir - Emerging Fields of Colloidal Nanophotonics for Quality Lighting to Versatile Lasing.- 12.Joshua Caldwell - Semiconductor Nano-Photonics usingSurface Polaritons.- 13.Wolfram Pernice - Waveguide integrated superconducting single photon detectors.- 14.Stephen Arnold – Whispering Gallery Mode resonators as opto-mechanical probes to nano-particle-microscavity interactios and charge.- 15.Markus Pollnau – Novel Aspects of Fabry-Perot Resonator.- 16.Rolindes Balda - Performance of Nd3+ as structural probe of rare-earth distribution in transparent nanostructured glass-ceramics.- 17.Malrgorzata Guzik - Research on the Yb 3+ ion activated cubic molybdates and molybdato-tungstates for optical transparent ceramics.- Part II: Short Seminars.- 1. Fabian Beutel – Quantum Key Distribution over Free Space.- 2.Antonino Cala’ Lesina – Modelling of Coloured Metal Surfaces by Plasmonics Nanoparticles.- 3.Onur Erdem - Exciton Dynamics of Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Well Stacks.- 4.James Godfrey - InAsP Quantum Dots in InP Nanowire Waveguides as Sources of Quantum Light.- 5. Wladislaw Hartmann - Diamond Nano-Photonic Circuits.- 6.Isabelle Palstra - Superchiral Near Fields in Photonic Crystal Waveguides.- 7.Marya Rudenko - Neodymium doped Luminescent Composites Derived From the Sols Based On Carboxylic Acids.- 8.Konstantin Shportko - Vibrational properties of Ge-Sb-Te phase-change alloys studied by temperature-dependent IR and Raman spectroscopy.- 9.Felix Stete - Size dependence of the coupling strength in plasmon-exciton Nano-Particles.- 10.Hasan Tabanli - Introduction to Shock Wave-Boundary Layer Interaction and Unstart in Supersonic Inlets.- 11.Sevcan Tabanli - Investigation of the white light emission from Er/Nd/Yb rare earth oxides at vacuum and atmospheric pressure.- 12.Nicolai Walter - Carbon Nanotubes as integrated electrically driven Light Source.- Part III: Posters.- 1.Antonino Cala’ Lesina – Plasmonic Metasurfaces for Nonlinear Structured Light1) Antonino Cala’ Lesina – Plasmonic Metasurfaces for Nonlinear Structured Light.- 2.Gabriel Campargue – Cell Poration of Fixed and Live Cells by Phase Shaped femtosecond pulses.- 3.Marco Clementi – On-chip nonlinear optics in silicon rich nitride photonic crystal cavities.- 4.Tobias Frenzel - Mechanical Activity: The elastic counterpart of optical activity.- 5.Wladislaw Hartmann - Highly compact and scalable waveguide-integrated single photon spectrometer based on tailored disorder.- 6.Iyer – Symmetry Breaking and Active Fano resonance Tuning in Dolmen Nano-structures.- 7.Robert Keitel - Pump-Profile Engineering for Spatial- and Spectral-Mode Control in Two-Dimensional Colloidal-Quantum-Dot Spasers.- 8.Caroline Klusmann - Hybridizing whispering gallery modes and plasmonic resonances in a photonic meta-device for bio-sensing applications.- 9.Julian Koepfler - Three-dimensional Chiral Photonic Crystals in the Thz Regime Exhibiting Weyl Points with Topological Charges.- 10.Frederik Mayer - Three-dimensional Fluorescent Security Features Fabricated via 3D Laser Lithography.- 11.Michael Meeker - Strong coupling effects between IR-inactive zone folded LO phonon and localized surface phonon polariton modes in SiC nanopillars.- 12.Tobias Messer - Measuring the intensity profile of arbitrary shaped laser foci using confocal microscopy.- 13.Alexander Munchinger – 3D Cubic buclking mechanical metamaterials.- 14.Stefano Orlando – Light absorbing diamond for solar energy conversion.- 15.Nikolai Passler - Nonlinear Response and Strong Coupling of Surface Phonon Polaritons.- 16.Marco Passoni - Grating couplers in Silicon-on-insulator: the role of photonic guided resonances on lineshape and bandwith.- 17.Siim Pikker - Aluminum plasmonics: fabrication and characterization of broadly tunable plasmonic surfaces for plasmon molecule strong-coupling and fluorescence enhancement.- 18.Jinq Yuan Qu - 3D Metamaterials with Negative Thermal Expansion and Negative Effective Compressibility.- 19.Andrei Ramanenka - Colloidal Spherical Silver Nanoparticles Based Plasmon Enhanced Fluorescence for Rapid Quantitative Point of Care Testing Fluorescent Immunoassay Development.- 20.Maryia Rudenko - Synthesis And Photoluminescence Of Strontium Titanate Xerogels Doped With Terbium, Ytterbium And Europium.- 21.Philip Schrinner - Integration of single photon sources with nano-photonic circuits.- 22.Konstantin Shportko - Vibrational properties of Ge-Sb-Te phase-change alloys studied by IR and Raman spectroscopy at different temperatures.- 23.Vladislav Stefanov - Quantum state engineering with single atom laser.- 24.Felix Stete - Signatures of Strong Coupling on Nanoparticles: Revealing Absorption Anticrossing by Tuning the Dielectric Environment.- 25.Sevcan Tabanli – Solid State Synthesis, structural and Up-Conversion Properties of Yb3+/Er3+ and Yb3+/Tm3+/Er3+ doped La2Ti2O7 Phosphors.- 26.Silvia Tofani- Static and tunable devices for terahertz focusing and beam steering.- 7.List of Participants.