Introduction to Nanophotonics – Overview

Note: If you would like to attend this course, please also register in the LMU online course system at https://lsf.verwaltung.uni-muenchen.de/

Lecturers

• Prof. Stefan Maier, stefan.maier@physik.uni-muenchen.de
• Prof. Leonardo Menezes, l.menezes@physik.uni-muenchen.de
• Dr. Andreas Tittl, andreas.tittl@physik.uni-muenchen.de

Tutorials and grading

Your total grade will be composed of the grades of 3 exercise sheets distributed along the semester and the grade of a 12-15 minutes long talk you'll give on a topic defined 2 weeks before the talk. Specifically, the talk presentation will make up 70% of your grade while the grades of your handed-in exercise sheets make up the remaining 30%.

The following topics of nanophotonics will be covered

• Review of macroscopic electromagnetism, dielectric function, evanescent fields
• Propagation, focusing, resolution and localization
• Confined light: photonic crystals and optical microcavities
• Confined matter: quantum effects on the electronic structure of matter
• Dipolar interactions I: quantum emitters, single photon sources
• Dipolar interactions II: weak and strong coupling, photonic density of states
• Dielectric nanocavities I: Mie modes
• Dielectric nanocavities II: bound states in the continuum
• Molecular sensing
• Plasmonics I: propagating surface plasmons
• Plasmonics II: localized surface plasmons and optical antennas
• Metamaterials and metasurfaces

In addition, selected topics of current research will be discussed.