Workshop Topics

Topics of interest for the OWTNM workshop address the physical understanding, the mathematical description, and the computational treatment of guided as well as non-guided optical waves and related effects in micro- and nanostructures. They include, but are not limited to:

Advances in analytical, numerical, and computational methods:
Generic & configuration-specific; efficient approximate tools & large-scale simulations, parallel computing.
Device design and optimization:
Tools & algorithms for design and optimization, inverse problems, topological optimization, machine learning methods.
Photonic nanostructures and metamaterials:
Nano-resonators and -antennas, resonator arrays, homogenization, optical metamaterials, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, photon management by nanostructures in PV and OLED structures, metamaterial waveguides, topological photonics.
Quantum optics:
Schemes for entangled states preparation, efficient single photon and photon pair generation, detector schemes, quantum emitters, quantum computing, optimized integrated photonic structures, loss management.
Plasmonics, two-dimensional and van der Waals materials:
Metallic waveguides and nanowires, tapers and field enhancement, array-effects in metallic nanostructures, optics of graphene, polariton effects in van der Waals heterostructures.
Resonant states:
Optical micro- and nano-resonators, passive and active optical cavities, quasi-normal modes, spectral engineering; bound states in the continuum.
Interaction of optical states:
Classical- and quantum regimes; external excitation, coupled mode theory, resonator circuits, photonic atoms & molecules; strong and weak-coupling effects, coupling to macroscopic resonant and waveguiding systems, density matrix methods.
Passive and active waveguide devices:
Simulation and design of photonic integrated systems, linear and nonlinear effects in waveguides and waveguide arrays, light localization in space and time, grating structures, in- and out-coupling device schemes.
Photonic crystals:
Photonic bandgap structures, photonic crystal devices, photonic crystal fibres.
Guided wave sensors:
Fibre optic and integrated-optical sensing devices, systems, theories and techniques, bio-sensors.
Optoelectronic devices:
Waveguide lasers, fibre amplifiers and lasers, micro-lasers, mid IR and THz sources.
Multiphysics effects:
Coupling of optical, electronic, acoustic, mechanical, and thermal simulations.
Device characterization:
Advanced techniques for integrated optical structures, simulation-assisted characterization.
Packaging and Integration:
Fabrication process theory and simulation, packaging and integration issues.