Quantum Plasmonics Incubator

Quantum Plasmonics Incubator

21-23 August 2013 OSA Headquarters • Washington, DC, USA HOSTED BY: Garnett W. Bryant, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Quantum Measurement Division and Joint Quantum Institute, USA Joachim Krenn, Institute of Physics, Karl-Franzens-University, Austria Edo Waks,  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, USA

 

Overview

Classical plasmonics has been intensely studied in the last decade, providing a route toward intense local fields and light confined to volumes much smaller than the diffraction limit, with a wide range of applications for nanooptics in bio and chemical sensing, metamaterials, nanoelectronics, and light conversion for solar energy. In the same way that quantum optics, i.e. optics with individual photons, has revealed a wealth of optical phenomena not possible in classical optics, quantum plasmonics should greatly expand the possibilities for plasmonics if the quantum character of the plasmon can be captured, manipulated and exploited. Quantum plasmonics is still in its infancy. This workshop overviewed some of its first successes, addressed challenges that must be overcome, and explored what might be possible once these challenges are met.
 

Featured Topics

The workshop was divided into the following sessions highlighted by several invited talks and extended discussion:

1. Quantum plasmonics – different viewpoints on what is it and what has been done
2. Light matter coupling, antennas – coupling quantum emitters to plasmonic nanoantennas: what has and could be done
3. Theoretical issues – on where and how the quantum comes in, when it is important, how it can be revealed
4. Devices and novel measurements – what can be done with quantum plasmonics and new ways to probe it
5. Prospects – what needs to be done to move forward, to build and test interesting systems, to exploit quantum effects

 

Schedule

[FULL AGENDA]
 

Confirmed Attendees [8-21-13]

Ulrik Lund Andersen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark;  Charles Bamber, National Research Council of Canada, Canada;  Garnett Bryant, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Quantum Measurement Division and Joint Quantum Institute, United States;  Darrick Chang, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain;  Jennifer Dionne, Stanford University, United States;  Ruben Esteban, Donostia International Physics Center, Spain;  Phil Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States;  Jingyun Fan, Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and University of Maryland, United States;  Stephen Gray, Argonne National Laboratory, United States;  Stephen Hughes, Queen's University, Canada;  Joachim R. Krenn, The University of Graz, Austria;  Ben J. Lawrie, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States;  Tom LeBrun, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States;  Christoph Lienau, University of Oldenburg, Germany;  Svetlana Lukishova, The institute of Optics, University of Rochester, United States;  Michael A. Metcalfe, Booz Allen Hamilton, United States;  Maiken Mikkelsen, Duke University, United States;  Jeremy Munday, University of Maryland, United States;  Mikhail Noginov, Norfolk State University, United States;  Peter Nordlander, Rice University, United States;  Teri W. Odom, Northwestern University, United States;  Matt Pelton, University of Maryland, United States;  Sergey Polyakov, Quantum Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States;  Chad Ropp, University of Maryland, United States;  Kaushik Roy Choudhury, University of Maryland, United States;  Seyed Sadeghi, University of Alabama in Huntsville, United States;  George C. Schatz, Northwestern University, United States;  Volker J. Sorger, George Washington University, United States;  Yugang Sun, Argonne National Laboratory, United States;  Mark Tame, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, United Kingdom;  Nick Vamivakas, University of Rochester, United States;  Edo Waks, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, United States;  Jorg Wrachtrup, Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart, Germany;  Xiang Zhang, University of California, Berkeley, United States;  Rashid Zia, Brown University, United States;  Val Zwiller, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands  



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