Nano-Photonics Meeting 2011

Nano-Photonics is a new research field combining several scientific areas from materials to optics. It holds promise for future developments in information technology, sensing, bio-medical and energy applications. This workshop is bringing together experts from all of the different areas to discuss different approaches for tackling the exciting goals.

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Program Committee:
Gerald Bastard, Gottfried Strasser, Karl Unterrainer

Local Committee:
Claudia Benedela, Karl Riedling

Venue:
Vienna University of Technology
Seminar room of the Photonics Institute
Gusshausstrasse 27-29
Room CBEG02
Staircase 2, ground floor
1040 Vienna
Austria

Time:
Thursday, November 10, and Friday, November 11, 2011

Start:
November 10 around lunch time do allow international guests to fly in.

Accommodation:
We recommend two hotels both of which are in a 5 minutes walking distance to the conference venue and near the center of Vienna. Please specify "Nano-Photonics Meeting" when you make your booking.

**** Hotel Johann Strauss
Favoritenstrasse 12,
1040 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 505 7624
Fax: +43 1 505 7628
info@hotel-johann-strauss.at
http://www.hotel-johann-strauss.at

**** Hotel Papageno
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 23-25
1040 Vienna
Austria
Phone: +43 1 504 6744
Fax.: +43 1 504 6744 22
reservation@hotelpapageno.at
http://www.hotelpapageno.at

Programme:

Thursday, November 10, 2011

13:00Welcome & Introduction
13:30Jérôme Tignon: Ultra-fast THz spectroscopy of quantum cascade lasers
14:00Juraj Darmo: THz time-domain spectroscopy: quantum cascade lasers and beyond
14:30Stefan Rotter: New laser physics in coupled microlasers
15:00Break
15:30Carole Diederichs: Optics in single quantum dots
16:00Friedrich Schaeffler: Structural and optical properties of SiGe nanostructures
16:30Discussion

Friday, November 11, 2011

09:00Johannes Maier: Hybrid quantum systems - coupling atoms and diamond color centers to superconducting cavities
09:30Benjamin Huard: Building a quantum limited amplifier from Josephson junctions and resonators
10:00Karsten Held: Kondo effect in double quantum dots and quantum point contacts
10:30Break
11:00Christophe Voisin: Carbon nanotubes for optics
11:30Thomas Mueller: Graphene Photodetectors
12:00Nicolas Regnault: Towards fractional topological insulators
12:30Lunch
14:00Andrey Chabanov: Signatures of Photon Localization
14:30Stefan Kalchmair: Resonant photonic detection
15:00Francesca Carosella: Free Carrier absorption in quantum cascade lasers
15:30Break
16:00Joachim Krenn: Nano-photonics with plasmonic wires and particles
16:30Bernard Plaçais: Quantum electronics in two-dimensional electron gases and graphene