ECE-695s Spring 2008

Nanophotonics & Metamaterials

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Purdue Schools of Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Course Syllabus:

syllabus

Reading Material:

Kawata book
Raether book

Homework:

Homework #1
Homework #2

Lecture Notes:

Lecture 1 - Intro. Syllabus discussion. Light interaction with matter. Review of the Maxwell’s equations.
Lecture 2 - Dispersion in Materials.
Lecture 3 - Microscopic and macroscopic theories of the optical properties of insulators, semiconductors and metals.
Lecture 4 - Electromagnetic properties of molecules, nano- and microscopic particles.
Lecture 5 - Photonic crystals - introduction.
Lecture 6 - Basic properties of electromagnetic effects in periodic media.
Lecture 7 - Photonic crystal waveguides and photonic circuits.
Lecture 8 - Photonic crystals fibers.
Lecture 9 - Introduction to metal optics. Surface plasmon polaritons. Nanoelectronics and photonics. Why nanophotonics needs plasmonics.
Lecture 10 - Excitation and propagation of surface plasmon-polaritons in 1D and 2D plasmonic nanocircuits.
Lecture 11 - Focusing and guiding light in metal nanostructures.
Lecture 12 - Sensing with plasmonic nanostructures.
Lecture 13 - Super resolution, Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy.
Lecture 13 - ... continues.
Lecture 14 - Meta-I: Electrical and Magnetic Metamaterials.
Lecture 15 - Meta-II: Negative-Index, Nonlinear Optics, and Super/Hyper-Lenses.
Lecture 16 - Meta-III: Cloaking and Transformation Optics.
Lecture 17 - Extraordinary Transmission Through Small Apertures (student presentation).
Lecture 18 - Compensating Surface Plasmon Losses With Gain (student presentation).
Lecture 19 - Surface Plasmon Microscopy (student presentation).
Lecture 20 - Optical Nanocircuits (student presentation).

Exams:

Mid-term Exam solution

Contacts:

Professor: Vladimir Shalaev
Office: MSEE270
E-mail: shalaev@ecn.purdue.edu
Website: http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~shalaev/