Working Group 2
In nanoscale quantum optics three topics presently dominate the research on nonlinearities and ultrafast processes in nanostructured media:
- nonlinear response in nanostructures
- energy transfer and nanophotonic coupling
- electrons in optical near-fields
Topics | Nonlinear response in nanostructures | Energy transfer and nanophotonic coupling | Electrons in optical near-fields |
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MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS | – metal nanostructures – optical nanoantennas – plasmonic resonators | – plasmonic resonators – nanophotonic antennas – quantum dots – light harvesting | – nanoemitter – free electrons interacting with near fields – multiphoton photoemission |
THEORY AND MODELS | – Coupling of Maxwell’s equations with quantum mechanical response models – TD-DFT, hydrodynamic model, Bethe-Salpeter equation, … | – quantum coupling schemes – quantum optics in the optical near-field | – strong-field physics – plasmon assisted nonlinear photoemission |
EXPERIMENTS | – SHG, THG, nonlinear fluorescence, … – nonlinear optical near-field microspectroscopy | – coherent 2D spectroscopy – spatio-temporal spectroscopy | – CEP controlled near-fields – electron nanoemitters – ultrafast PEEM – ultrafast SEM |