Program

Nanophotonics 2018 - The next Frontier will be held in early March 2018. This workshop is focused on the nonlinear optical processes in nano-structures and -systems. The meeting scope covers both fundamental and applied nonlinear photonics with topics including nonlinearity in metamaterials, plasmonics, 2D materials, nano and microscale photonic waveguides, novel nonlinear materials and nonlinear quantum optics.

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Tuesday, 6 March 2018
All Sessions will take place in Finkel Lecture Theatre and JCSMR Foyer at ANU.
08:15 - 09:00Arrival and Registration
09:00Session 1 - Chair: Mohsen Rahmani (Australian National University)
09:00 - 09:15Mohsen Rahmani: Opening [More Info]
09:15 - 09:45Benjamin Eggleton: Welcome and Introduction by CUDOS Director [More Info]
09:45 - 10:25Nader Engheta: Can we do math and solve equations with metamaterials? [More Info]
10:25 - 10:40Birgit Stiller: Photonic-phononic memory: tailoring stimulated Brillouin scattering for light storage [More Info]
10:40 - 11:00Morning Tea
11:00Session 2 - Chair: Alexander Solntsev (University of Technology, Sydney)
11:00 - 11:25Yuri Kivshar: All-Dielectric Resonant Meta-Optics [More Info]
11:25 - 12:05Igal Brener: Recent Advances in Linear and Nonlinear All-Dielectric Metamaterials [More Info]
12:05 - 12:30Ann Roberts: Sensing Light with Plasmonics [More Info]
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30Session 3 - Chair: Birgit Stiller (The University of Sydney)
13:30 - 13:55Min Gu: Optical Beam Nanolithography under Two-Photon Excitation [More Info]
13:55 - 14:20Simon Fleming: Metamaterials Fabricated by Fibre Drawing [More Info]
14:20 - 14:35Arnan Mitchell: Integrated Photonic and Microfluidic Systems for Point of Care Biosensor Applications [More Info]
14:35 - 14:50David Lancaster: A chip-based dual frequency-comb sensor [More Info]
14:50 - 15:05Robert McLaughlin: Imaging Needles: bringing optics deep inside the body [More Info]
15:05 - 15:20Daniel Gomez: Hot Carrier Extraction with Plasmonic Absorbers [More Info]
15:20 - 15:40Afternoon Tea
15:40Session 4 - Chair: Kai Wang (Australian National University)
15:40 - 16:05Chennupati Jagadish: Semiconductor Nanowires for Optoelectronics Applications [More Info]
16:05 - 16:20Yeurui Lu: Excited State Biexcitons in Atomically Thin MoSe2 [More Info]
16:20 - 16:35Dragomir Neshev: Nanoscale source of entangled photons through spontaneous parametric down conversion [More Info]
16:35 - 16:50Andrea Blanco-Redondo: Solitary Nanophotonics [More Info]
16:50 - 17:05Igor Aharonovich: Quantum Emitters in Flatland [More Info]
17:30 - 20:00Poster session incl. networking reception and workshop dinner
 
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
09:00Session 1 - Chair: Andrea Blanco Redondo (The University of Sydney)
09:00 - 09:15Tim Senden: Welcome and Introduction by RSPE Director [More Info]
09:15 - 09:40Kylie Catchpole: High efficiency perovskite/silicon solar cells [More Info]
09:40 - 09:55Andrey Sukhorukov: Dielectric Metasurfaces for Unconventional Polarisation Control [More Info]
09:55 - 10:10Duk-Yong Choi: Hydrogenated amorphous silicon for nanophotonics [More Info]
10:10 - 10:25Alexander Solntsev: Integrated Nonlinear photonics with 2D materials [More Info]
10:25 - 10:40Kai Wang: Imaging multi-photon quantum states with all-dielectric metasurfaces [More Info]
10:40 - 11:00Morning Tea
11:00Session 2 - Chair: Judith Dawes (Macquarie University)
11:00 - 11:40Harald Giessen: Merging micro- and nano-optics: Fundamental aspects and applications [More Info]
11:40 - 12:20Mikhail Noginov: Control of emission and energy transfer with non-local dielectric environments [More Info]
12:20 - 12:35Martijn de Sterke: Wide-bandwidth, near-perfect absorber based on graphene metamaterial [More Info]
12:35 - 13:30Lunch
13:30Session 3 - Chair: Yuerui Lu (Australian National University)
13:30 - 14:10Isabelle Staude: Tailoring light-matter interactions in resonant semiconductor metasurfaces [More Info]
14:10 - 14:25Andrey Miroshnichenko: Nonradiating excitations with dielectric nanoparticles [More Info]
14:25 - 14:40Mikhail Lapine: All-optical angular sorting of dielectric nanoparticles [More Info]
14:40 - 14:55Stefano Palomba: Application-driven design strategy for nano-plasmonic waveguides in lasers and four-wave mixing devices [More Info]
14:55 - 15:10Mohsen Rahmani: Integration of nanostructured dielectric fractals on metasurfaces for selective and sensitive optical gas sensing [More Info]
15:10 - 15:30Afternoon Tea
15:30Session 4 - Chair: Yuri Kivshar (Australian National University)
15:30 - 16:10John Harvey: New Architectures for Femtosecond All-PM Fibre Lasers [More Info]
16:10 - 16:50Shuang Zhang: Metamaterials for topological photonics [More Info]
16:50 - 17:05Kenneth Crozier: Engineering light-matter interactions at the nanoscale in nanowire photodetectors and silicon nano-antenna optical tweezers [More Info]
17:05 - 17:20Valerio Flavio Gili: Nonlinear photonics in AIGaAs-on-insulator monolithic platform [More Info]
17:20 - 17:30Conclusion