OWTNM 2010 - Topics

Topics of interest for the workshop on Optical Waveguide Theory and Numerical Modelling address the physical understanding and the mathematical description of guided optical waves and related effects in micro- and nanostructures. They include, but are not limited to:

• Passive and active waveguide devices:
Simulation and design of photonic integrated systems, linear and nonlinear effects in waveguides and waveguide arrays, light localisation in space and time, grating structures, in- and out-coupling device schemes
• Photonic crystals:
Photonic bandgap structures, photonic crystal devices, photonic crystal fibres, and respective applications.
• Photonic Nanostructures and Metamaterials:
Micro and nano-resonators, micro-lasers, nano-antennas, photonic molecules, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, photon management by nanostructures in PV and OLED structures, metamaterial waveguides.
• Proposed focus session: The future of metamaterials in the optical domain.
• Plasmonics:
Metallic waveguides and nanowires, tapers and field enhancement, array-effects in metallic nanostructures
• Optoelectronic devices:
Waveguide lasers, fibre lasers, mid IR and THz sources
• Advances in numerical methods
• Multiphysics effects
• Guided wave sensors (both fibre and integrated-optic, including bio-sensors.)