Topics of Interest Include:
- 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.
- Optical micro-resonators: Passive and active optical cavities, resonator circuits, excitation and spectral engineering, photonic atoms & molecules, and respective applications.
- Photonic crystals: Photonic bandgap structures, photonic crystal devices, photonic crystal fibers, and respective applications
- 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.
- Plasmonics: Metallic waveguides and nanowires, tapers and field enhancement, array-effects in metallic nanostructures.
- Optoelectronic devices: Waveguide lasers, fiber lasers, micro-lasers, mid IR and THz sources.
- Guided wave sensors: Fiber and integrated-optic sensors, bio-sensors.
- Multiphysics effects Advances in analytical, numerical, and computational methods: Generic, configuration-specific.