6th Workshop on Numerical Methods for
Optical Nano Structures
Monday, July 5 - Tuesday, July 6, 2010 + short course Wednesday, July 7, 2010
ETH Zurich, building ETF, room C1
Link: http://alphard.ethz.ch/Hafner/Workshop/Workshop2010.htm
Keynote talks (Monday)
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Achim Hartschuh: Tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy of single
nanostructures (Abstract)
Vahid Sandoghdar: Plasmonic manipulation and focusing of light at the
nanoscale (Abstract)
Philippe Lalanne, J.P. Hugonin: The extraordinary optical transmission and
Wood’ anomaly (Abstract) (Presentation)
Hirofumi Yanagisawa, Jürg Osterwalder, Matthias Hengsberger: Optical
control of field emission sites (Abstract)
Daniel Erni, Thorsten Liebig, and Jürg Fröhlich: Numerical Structural
Optimization in Microoptics and Nanophotonics (Abstract) (Presentation)
Kurt Busch, Jens Niegemann, Michael König, Christopher Prohm, Richard
Diehl, Paolo Longo, Regine Frank, Elisabeth Blank: Advanced material models
for nano-plasmonics within a DGTD framework (Abstract)
Additional events
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Monday evening: Apéro and BBQ on the roof of the ETF building
Wednesday, July 7, 2010: Short course on time domain methods for optical
nano structures
Short course on time domain methods for optical nano structures
(Wednesday)
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Frank Demming: Simulation of nano optical devices in Time and Frequency
Domain using CST MICROWAVE STUDIO
Benedikt Oswald, Patrick Leidenberger: The Finite Element Time Domain
Method in Electrodynamics - With an Emphasis on Nano-Optics
Sven Friedel: Time domain EM wave computations with COMSOL
Multiphysics
Dirk Baumann: Finite Volume Time Domain
Jens Niegemann, Michael König, Richard Diehl, Christopher Prohm, Paolo
Longo, Elisabeth Blank, Kurt Busch: The Discontinuous Galerkin TimeDomain Method - Introduction and Recent Progress
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Thomas Kaufmann: Going Meshless: An Introduction to the Radial Point
Interpolation for Time-Domain Method
Stefan Schild: SEMCAD
Organizer
Ch. Hafner, Computational Optics Group, IFH, ETH
Co-Organizer
MNSP
Sponsors
OptETH, SEREC, Fred Tischer Lecture Series
Registration
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No registration required for attending the workshop.
When you would like to benefit from the free catering (offered by our sponsors)
during lunch breaks (sandwiches, drinks) and Monday evening BBQ, please, send
an E-mail to Christian.Hafner(at)ifh.ee.ethz.ch, indicating you name and
affiliation.
If you would like to present your work, send an E-mail to
Christian.Hafner(at)ifh.ee.ethz.ch till June 10, indicating your name, affiliation,
title of your talk, short abstract.
How to come to ETF C1: ETF is the "Elektrotechnik Forschung" building of ETH
Zurich, located at Sternwartstrasse. For those who attended the Workshop last year: It is
the building where the BBQ took place. It is most convenient to come by public
transportation: Tram 6 from "Bahnhofstrasse" or "Central" (both near Zurich main
station) or Tram 5 from "Bahnhof Enge", "Bellevue" (near the lake) direction "Zoo", exit
at "Voltastrasse", walk 50 meters back and turn right into Sternwartstrasse. The next
entrance to the right ist the main entrance of ETF. If you come by car, either follow
"Rämistrasse" from "Bellevue" upwards towards "Zoo" (turn right at the University of
Zurich) or follow "Universitätsstrasse" from "Irchel" towards "ETH", "Universität",
"Bellevue" (turn left after you passed ETH, in front of the University of Zurich). Then,
you follow Gloriastrasse after around 100 m there is a left turn and after again 100 m
there is a sharp right turn. In order to come to the ETZ building parking garage, you must
cross Gloriastrasse directly at the right turn. Be careful, because you must cross the tram
rails! To get access to the parking garage, you first must go to the "Hausdienst" at the
entrance of the ETZ building on the E floor and tell them that you are visitor and need
temporary parking. Note that the ETF building is aside ETZ.
Hotels When you search for a hotel near ETH, try the following and ask for special rates
for guests of ETH: www.st-josef.ch, www.hotelbristol.ch, www.zuerich-hotels.ch,
www.hotelbasilea.ch, www.leoneck.ch, www.hotelastorzurich.ch, www.comfortinn.ch,
www.hotelsunnehus.ch, www.leonardo-hotel-zurich.com, www.plattenhof.ch. You may
also search on: http://hotels.zuerich.com/
Special section on Numerical Methods for Optical Nano Structures in the
Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience (CTN, see
http://www.aspbs.com/ctn/): All authors contributing to the workshop are kindly invited
to submit full original papers of their work for the CTN journal. Submit the
corresponding manuscripts to Christian.Hafner(at)ifh.ee.ethz.ch before end of September
2010.
Preliminary Schedule
Monday, July 5
Morning: Keynote talks, Chair: Benedikt Oswald
8:30 - 8:40
Christian Hafner: Opening remarks
8:40 - 9:10 Achim Hartschuh: Tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy of
single nanostructures (Abstract)
9:10 - 9:50 Vahid Sandoghdar: Plasmonic manipulation and focusing of light at
the nanoscale (Abstract)
9:50 -10:30 Philippe Lalanne, J.P. Hugonin: Understanding nanophotonic devices
with modal methods (Abstract)
10:30-11:10 Hirofumi Yanagisawa, Jürg Osterwalder, Matthias Hengsberger:
Optical control of field emission sites (Abstract)
11:10-11:50 Daniel Erni, Thorsten Liebig, and Jürg Fröhlich: Numerical
Structural Optimization in Microoptics and Nanophotonics (Abstract)
11:50-12:30 Kurt Busch, Jens Niegemann, Michael König, Christopher Prohm,
Richard Diehl, Paolo Longo, Regine Frank, Elisabeth Blank: Advanced material
models for nano-plasmonics within a DGTD framework (Abstract)
12:30-14:00
Lunch break
Afternoon: Plasmonics, Chair: Daniel Erni
14:00-14:20 Yasin Ekinci, Reto Giannini, Shankar K. Jha, Yogesh Jeyaram, Arda
Kiristopuryan, Jörg F. Löffler, Pratap K. Sahoo, Harun H. Solak, Hans Sigg,
Thomas Sigfried, Christian David, Sergey Gorelick, and Birgit Päivänranta: Novel
plasmonic nanostructures for biosensing and metamaterials (Abstract)
14:20-14:40 Weihua Zhang, Olivier J. F. Martin: Optical trapping and sensing
with plasmonic antennas (Abstract)
14:40-15:00 Ralf Vogelgesang, Christian Hafner: Regularly spaced metal
nanoparticle chains embedded in nanotubes (Abstract)
15:00-15:20 Benedikt Oswald, Patrick Leidenberger: Array Concepts for Optical
Antennas - Revisiting Traditional Antenna Architectures (Abstract) (Presentation)
15:20-15:40 Xuewen Chen, Hadi Eghlidi, K.-G. Lee, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid
Sandoghdar: Interface enhanced optical antenna for efficient and ultrahigh
resolution fluorescence spectroscopy (Abstract)
15:40-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-16:20 Andreas Hille, René Kullock, Stefan Grafström, Lukas M. Eng:
Calculating Second Harmonic Generation of Metallic Nano-structures Using
Curved Elements (Abstract)
16:20-16:40 Christian Engström: On resonances in metallic photonic crystals
(Abstract)
16:40-17:00 Jasmin Smajic, Christian Hafner: Modelling of optical waveguides
with radiation loss (Abstract) (Presentation)
17:00-17:20 Lutz Langguth, Harald Giessen: Coupling in metamaterials (Abstract)
17:00-17:20 Jasmin Smajic, Christian Hafner, Dirk Baumann: Simulations of
Optical Plasmonic Nano-Antennas (Abstract) (Presentation)
Evening: 18:00-??:?? Apéro and BBQ on the roof of the ETF building
Tuesday, July 6
Morning: Numerical Methods, Chair: Jasmin Smajic
08:30-08:50 Ralf Vogelgesang: Smooth morphing of the unit circle into simple
polygons enclosing star domains, and their application to finite and infinte rods
(Abstract)
08:50-09:10 R. Kappeler, K.Schmidt, P.Kaspar und H.Jaeckel: Comparing
Different Methods for Computing Photonic Bands (Abstract)
09:10-09:30 Michael König, Kurt Busch, Jens Niegemann: Complementary
Solvers: From DGTD to the Frequency-Domain (Abstract) (Presentation)
09:30-09:50 P. Leidenberger, P. Schönle, Ch. Hafner: Simulations of a Dielectric
Slot tip for Scanning Near-Field Microwave Microscope (Abstract)
09:50-10:20
Coffee break
10:20-10:40 Jan Pomplun, Sven Burger, Lin Zschiedrich, Frank Schmidt:
Reduced basis method for fast and robust simulation of parametrized nano-optical
systems (Abstract) (Präsentation) (Link: http://www.jcmwave.com/)
10:40-11:00 H. Li, A. Rieder, K. R. Hiremath: Numerical Solutions to Time
Domain Maxwell’s Equations with Adaptive Wavelet Collocation Method (Abstract)
(Presentation) (Animation1, 2, 3)
11:00-11:20 D. Kakulia, G. Ghvedashvili, D. Karkashadze, K. Tavzarashvili, Ch.
Hafner: The MAS approach for modeling 3D periodic structures (Abstract)
11:20-11:40 Aytac Alparslan, Christian Hafner: Layered media Green's functions:
A new expansion for OpenMaX (Abstract)
11:40-12:00 Kai Sandfort: A fast solver for the periodic Lippmann-Schwinger
equation (Abstract) (Presentation)
12:00-12:20 Mengyu Wang, Christian Engström, Kersten Schmidt, Christian
Hafner: On high-order FEM applied to canonical scattering problems in plasmonics
(Abstract) (Presentation)
12:20-13:20
Lunch break
Afternoon: Various Applications and Methods, Chair: Christian Engström
13:20-13:40 T. Weiss, N. A. Gippius, G. Granet, S. G. Tikhodeev, H. Giessen:
Resonant mode coupling of optical resonances in stacked nanostructures (Abstract)
13:40-14:00 Valeria Lotito, Urs Sennhauser, Christian Hafner: Numerical analysis
of novel SNOM tip configurations (Abstract)
14:00-14:20 Anna Mustonen, Paul Beaud, Eugenie Kirk, Thomas Vogel, Thomas
Feurrer, Benedikt Oswald, Soichiro Tsujino: Ultrafast laser-induced electron
emission from metallic nano-tip arrays (Abstract)
14:20-14:40 Markus Richter: Maximizing Band Gaps in Three-Dimensional
Photonic Crystals (Abstract)
14:40-15:00 Nikolay Komarevskiy, Valery Shklover, Christian Hafner: Optimal
design of reflecting photonic systems for reentry applications (Abstract)
15:00-15:30
Coffee break
15:30-15:50 Sven Burger, Lin Zschiedrich, Jan Pomplun, Frank Schmidt: FEM
simulations of nanocavities for plasmon lasers (Abstract) (Präsentation) (Link:
http://www.jcmwave.com/)
15:50-16:10 Kirankumar R. Hiremath, Jens Niegeman, Kurt Busch: Comparative
study of semi-analytic coupled mode method and Discontinuous Galerkin Time
Domain method for light propagation in slot microresonators (Abstract)
16:10-16:30 Thomas Zebrowski: Simulation of liquid crystal based fiber devices
with the Fourier modal method (Abstract)
16:30-16:40
Christian Hafner: Closing remarks
16:50-18:00 OpenMaX User's Meeting
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Ondrej Stranik, Wolfgang Fritzsche: Effect of a metal nanoparticle on Foerster
Resonance Energy Transfer between two fluorescent dyes (Abstract)
Christian Hafner: New features (multilayer expansions, GMSH, multi-parameter
connections, 2D multipoles for 3D modeling, parametrized 2D boundaries, new
directives)
Feedback from users
Wednesday, July 7, 9:00 - 17:00
Short course on time domain methods for optical nano
structures
Morning
9:00 -10:00 Frank Demming: Simulation of nano optical devices in Time and
Frequency Domain using CST MICROWAVE STUDIO
10:00-11:00 Sven Friedel: Time domain EM wave computations with COMSOL
Multiphysics
11:00-12:00 Stefan Schild: SEMCAD
12:00-13:00 Lunch and discussions
Afternoon
13:00-13:40 Benedikt Oswald, Patrick Leidenberger: The Finite Element Time
Domain Method in Electrodynamics - With an Emphasis on Nano-Optics
13:40-14:20 Dirk Baumann: Finite Volume Time Domain
14:20-15:00 Jens Niegemann, Michael König, Richard Diehl, Christopher Prohm,
Paolo Longo, Elisabeth Blank, Kurt Busch: The Discontinuous Galerkin TimeDomain Method - Introduction and Recent Progress
15:00-15:40 Thomas Kaufmann: Going Meshless: An Introduction to the Radial
Point Interpolation for Time-Domain Method
15:40-...:...
Discussions and closing remarks