September 18, 2009 - Class 1: Resonances, refractive index and particle plasmons

October 2, 2009 - 11.00-13.00 hr Tour through Ornstein Lab

We will visit research groups that study nanophotonic phenomena and ask questions about their work.

October 9, 2009 - Class 3 - Photonic crystals

Presentation. Please review this carefully and be prepared in the next class to present parts of it.
Assignment, please hand in on Friday, October 16. No late returns !

October 16, 2009 - 10.00-16.00 hr. Excursion to AMOLF in Amsterdam.

To get to AMOLF by public transport, take bus 40 or 240 from Amsterdam Amstel station. Be sure to reserve enough time with the bus to arrive at AMOLF before 10:00 hr. If you arrive by different means, see www.amolf.nl for directions.
The program and directions can be downloaded here.

October 23, 2009 No class, explanation of homework assignments for Class 1, 2, and 3: 11.00-13.00 hr. in OL 260

If you're looking for places to refresh some basic background of elecrodynamics and the wave nature of light, you can download a book chapter here, taken from the book 'Laser Fundamentals' by Silfvast. Alternative texts can be found for example in the textbooks 'Classical Electrodynamics' by Jackson or 'Introduction to Electrodynamics' by Griffiths.

October 30, 2009 - Class 4: Density of optical states

Presentation. Please review this carefully and be prepared in the next class to present parts of it.
Assignment for this week as well as tabulated data for exercise 2: LDOS_assignment_data.dat. The data is taken from this paper. Please hand in on Friday, November 13. No late returns! ******ASSIGNMENT UPDATED TO CORRECT TYPOS 9/11/09.******
Questions answered for this assignment.
The class assistant for this assignment is Robb Walters (walters @ amolf.nl).

November 6, 2009 (Note: Friday !) All-day Visit to Nanoned conference in Delft

November 13, 2009 - Class 5: Rare earth ions and quantum dots

Presentation. Please review this carefully and be prepared in the next class to present parts of it.
Assignment, please hand in on Friday, November 20. No late returns !
******ASSIGNMENT UPDATED (1-1-d and 2-1) on 16/11/2009.******

November 20, 2009 - Class 6: Microcavities

Presentation. Please review this carefully and be prepared in the next class to present parts of it.
Assignment, please hand in on Friday, November 27. No late returns!
Use slide 14 from the presentation, and section 3.3.2 of the Ph.D. Thesis by Kippenberg for the explanation of critical coupling.

November 27, 2009 - Class 7: Near-field optics. NOTE: CLASS IS CANCELLED (but assignment is not)

Presentation. Please review this carefully and be prepared in the next class to present parts of it.
Please read this text on near-field optics. Together with the class slides, it will help you make the assignment (in particular sections 1-3).
Assignment, please hand in on Friday, December 4. No late returns! You will need to use this data file, and you can use this Mathematica notebook. If you are unfamiliar with Mathematica (or do not have access to it), please cooperate with a fellow student. Teaching assistant: Ewold Verhagen (verhagen@amolf.nl).

December 4, 2009 - No class, explanation of homework assignments for Class 4, 5, 6, and 7: 11.00-13.00 hr. in OL 260

December 11, 2009 - All-day Excursion to Philips Research - Eindhoven (9:30-15:30)

The program can be dowloaded here.
Directions: Take the train to Eindhoven station. Exit at the North entrance where all the busses are located. To come to the high tech campus you can take the bus number 407 or 17. The bus stop is HTC/The Strip. We will meet at Café The Strip (see Visitor map).

December 18. 2009 - Class 8: Nanophotovoltaics

Note: class starts at 9:00 AM and is moved to BBL 471!
Presentation. Please review this carefully and be prepared in the next class to present parts of it.
Assignment, please hand in on Friday, January 16, 2010. No late returns! For the assignment you need the AM1.5 spectrum and the dielectric constants of silicon.

Christmas break

January 8, 2010 - No class

January 16, 2009 - Class 8: Metamaterials

Presentation. Please review this carefully and be prepared in the next class to present parts of it.
Assignment, please hand in on Friday, January 22. No late returns !

January 22, 2010 - Nanophotonics summary

You will team up to present the essential concepts of the classes in the course, summarized on one slide. For instructions and the assignments of the groups, see this document.

January 29, 2010 - Closing symposium 9.30-13.00 hr. ATTENTION: ROOM BBL 001

Together with a fellow student, you will present one paper in the closing symposium. Each presentation takes 5 minutes, after which there is room for questions. Teams were formed and papers handed out on January 22. The program of the symposium can be found here. Note that the order has changed slightly with respect to the earlier posted program. There will also be a question session, as promised.
Location: BBL 001.