• Sergey Bozhevolnyi, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
  Modelling of plasmonic waveguides
• Kurt Busch, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany
  Discontinuous Galerkin methods in nano-photonics
• Jasper Knoester, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  Collective optical excitations in self-assembled molecular nanotubes for light-harvesting
• Falk Lederer, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
  Tailoring metaatoms for specific metamaterial applications
• Tetsuya Mizumoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
  Magneto-optical nonreciprocal devices on silicon
• Jeremy O'Brien, University of Bristol, UK
  Integrated quantum photonics
• Markus Pollnau, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
  Theory of lasing resonators: Quality factor and line width
• Pablo Aitor Postigo Resa, National Centre for Microelectronics, Madrid, Spain
  Three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (3D-FDTD) methods for photonic crystal lasers, solar cells and quantum nanophotonics
• Willem Vos, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
  Looking in and through opaque material

OWTNM 2013 program leaflet (.pdf, state of April 10, 2013)

Workshop schedule

Thursday, April 18

18:00 - 21:00

Welcome reception & early registration, light dinner buffet

Friday, April 19

08:00 - 16:00	Registration
08:55	Welcome Address
09:00 - 10:15	Methods & algorithms I
	Coffee
10:45 - 12:00	Active structures
	Lunch
13:00 - 14:45	Functional devices
	Coffee
15:15 - 16:00	Nanophotonics
	Drinks
16:00 - 18:00	Poster session
19:00	Workshop Dinner

Saturday, April 20

09:00 - 10:15	Methods & algorithms II
	Coffee
10:45 - 12:00	Metamaterials & nanostructures
	Lunch
13:00 - 14:15	Physical phenomena
	Coffee
14:45 - 16:00	Plasmonics
16:00	Closing remarks

Technical program

Friday, 09:00 - 10:15, Methods & algorithms I  (chair: R. Stoffer)

09:00 - 09:30	P.A. Postigo (invited), Three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (3D-FDTD) methods for photonic crystal lasers, solar cells and quantum nanophotonics
09:30 - 09:45	M. Maksimovic, Resonances in high-contrast gratings with complex unit cell topology
09:45 - 10:00	D.D. El-Mosalmy, M. Farhat, O. Hameed, N.F.F. Areed, S.S.A. Obayya, Radial basis function neural network based optimization approach for photonic devices
10:00 - 10:15	C. Kluge, L.T. Neustock, J. Adam, M. Gerken, Calculation of leaky-wave radiation from compound binary grating waveguides

Friday, 10:45 - 12:00, Active structures  (chair: D. Gallagher)

10:45 - 11:15	M. Pollnau, M. Eichhorn (invited), Theory of lasing resonators: Quality factor and line width
11:15 - 11:30	A. Liu, J. Pond, Nonlinear and gain simulation in waveguide systems: methods and applications
11:30 - 11:45	S. Malaguti, G. Bellanca, A. Bazin, F. Raineri, R. Raj, S. Trillo, Hybrid III-V semiconductor/silicon three-port Filter on 1D-PhC wire
11:45 - 12:00	J. Ctyroky, Full-vector analysis of photonic structures with a balance of loss and gain (cancelled)

Friday, 13:00 - 14:15, Functional devices  (chair: C. Waechter)

13:00 - 13:30	T. Mizumoto, Y. Shoji (invited), Magneto-optical nonreciprocal devices on silicon
13:30 - 13:45	M. Farhat, O. Hameed, A.M. Heikal, S.S.A. Obayya, Passive polarization rotator based on spiral photonic crystal fiber
13:45 - 14:00	B.B. Oner, M. Turduev, I.H. Giden, H. Kurt, Enhancing light manipulation by graded index photonic crystal media
14:00 - 14:15	A.-L. Fehrembach, K. Chan Shin Yu, A. Monmayrant, O. Gauthier-Lafaye, P. Arguel, A. Sentenac, 1D crossed guided mode resonant gratings for tunable filtering

Friday, 14:45 - 16:00, Nanophotonics  (chair: O. Parriaux)

14:45 - 15:15	J. Knoester (invited), Collective optical excitations in self-assembled molecular nanotubes for light-harvesting
15:15 - 15:30	V. Grigoriev, A. Tahri, S. Varault, B. Rolly, B. Stout, J. Wenger, N. Bonod, Decomposition of Mie scattering coefficients and polarizabilities of nanoshell structures into Lorentzian resonances
15:35 - 15:45	S. She, Y.Y. Lu, Extraordinary optical transmission through circular metallic cylinder arrays
15:45 - 16:00	D. Ketzaki, O. Tsilipakos, T.V. Yioultsis, E.E. Kriezis, Electromagnetically induced transparency with hybrid silicon-plasmonic traveling-wave resonators

Friday, 16:00 - 18:00, Poster Session

• D.K. Sharma, A. Sharma,
  Low-loss splicing of microstructured optical fibers and single-mode fibers: an analytical study
• K. Gehlot, A. Sharma,
  Simple analytical approach to optimize structure parameters of photonic crystal waveguide coupler
• A. Parini, G. Calo, G. Bellanca, V. Petruzzelli,
  Vertical links for multilayer optical-networks-on-chip topologies
• Q. Cao, S. Li, D. Teng, H. Gao,
  A terahertz waveguide coupler with a tapered dual elliptical metal structure
• P. Kwieicen, V. Kuzmiak, I. Richter, J. Ctyroky,
  Nonreciprocal waveguiding EM surfaces and structures for THz region
• A.M. Heikal, M. Farhat, O. Hameed, S.S.A. Obayya,
  Coupling characteristic for novel hybrid long-range plasmonic waveguide including bends
• S.I.H. Ibrahim, S.S.A. Obayya,
  Novel mixed finite element method analysis of leaky photonic nanowires
• S.I.H. Ibrahim, S.S.A. Obayya, R. Letizia,
  Efficient bidirectional beam propagation method for multiple longitudinal optical waveguide discontinuities
• R. Stoffer,
  Mode Polishing for 3D Finite Element BPM
• M.G. Can, B.B. Oner, H. Kurt,
  Numerical modeling of human eye with electromagnetic approach
• A.-L. Fehrembach, A. Sentenac,
  A vectorial simplified model for Fano resonances of guided-mode resonant gratings
• A.-L. Fehrembach, D. Shu, E. Popov,
  Electro-optic effect in guided mode resonance gratings for tunable narrow-band filtering
• A. Auditore, M. Conforti, C. De Angelis, A.B. Aceves,
  Solitons in binary waveguide arrays (cancelled)
• Vinita, A. Kumar, V. Rastogi,
  Bandgap maps for photonic crystal with honeycomb lattice for different shapes of scatterers
• Z. Hu, Y.Y. Lu,
  Standing waves on periodic arrays of circular dielectric cylinders
• Babita, V. Rastogi,
  Design and analysis of a low cost highly sensitive refractive index sensor
• H.J.W.M. Hoekstra,
  Integrated optics refractometry: sensitivity in relation to spectral shifts
• F. Civitci, M. Hammer, H.J.W.M. Hoekstra,
  Reflection of semi-guided plane waves at angled thin-film transitions
• S.F. Helfert,
  Time domain method of lines
• M.A. Botchev,
  Matrix exponential and Krylov subspaces for fast time domain computations: recent advances
• J.P. Epping, M. Kues, P.J.M. van der Slot, C.J. Lee, C. Fallnich, K.-J. Boller,
  Numerical modeling of seeded FWM in silicon nitride waveguides for CARS
• E.K. Sharma, J. Anand,
  Propagation of a periodic sequence of Gaussian pulses in a coaxial optical fiber: occurrence of "Talbot Effect" in the time domain
• S.G. Moiseev, V.A. Ostatochnikov, D.I. Sementsov,
  The peculiarities of optical spectra of photonic crystal with plasmonic defect
• G. Boudarham, B. Rolly, B. Stout, R. Abdeddaim, J.M. Geffrin, N. Bonod,
  Manipulating light matter interaction with Mie resonators

Friday, 16:00 - 18:00, Postdeadline posters

• E. Yeganegi, A. Lagendijk, A.P. Mosk, W.L. Vos,
  Local density of optical states in the band gap of a finite photonic crystal
• S.A. Goorden, M. Horstmann, S.R. Huisman, T.J. Huisman, A.P. Mosk, B. Skoric, P.W.H. Pinkse,
  The Quantum Credit Card
• J. Lian, A. De Rossi, S. Combrie, W.L. Vos, A. P. Mosk,
  Calculations on Kuramochi-type coupled cavities

Saturday, 09:00 - 10:15, Methods & algorithms II  (chair: I. Richter)

09:00 - 09:30	K. Busch (invited), Discontinuous Galerkin methods in nano-photonics
09:30 - 09:45	A.A. Shcherbakov, A.V. Tishchenko, Generalized source method in curvilinear coordinates
09:45 - 10:00	K. Gehlot, A. Sharma, Modified optimal variational method to study modal characteristics of Si photonic wire waveguides
10:00 - 10:15	M. Blome, K. McPeak, S. Burger, F. Schmidt, Back-reflector optimization in thin-film silicon solar cells by rigorous FEM light propagation modeling

Saturday, 10:45 - 12:00, Metamaterials & nanostructures  (chair: M. Maksimovic)

10:45 - 11:15	F. Lederer, S. Muhlig, C. Rockstuhl, R. Alaee, C. Menzel (invited), Tailoring meta-atoms for specific metamaterial applications
11:15 - 11:30	J. Benedicto, E. Centeno, A. Moreau, Lens equation for flat lenses made with hyperbolic metamaterials
11:30 - 11:45	S. Bin Hasan, C. Etrich, R. Filter, C. Rockstuhl, F. Lederer, Tailoring the quadratic response of nanoantennas: use of a waveguide model
11:45 - 12:00	P.J. Compaijen, V.A. Malyshev, J. Knoester, Transmission of optical excitations through a linear chain of metal nanoparticles in the presence of a reflector

Saturday, 13:00 - 14:15, Physical phenomena  (chair: H.J.W.M. Hoekstra)

13:00 - 13:30	P. Shadbolt, J.L. O'Brien & collaborators (invited), Integrated quantum photonics (presentation by P. Shadbolt)
13:30 - 14:00	W.L. Vos (invited), Looking in and through opaque material
14:00 - 14:15	A.V. Tishchenko, O. Parriaux, Intriguing relations between "pseudo-Brewster incidence" and the plasmon mode at a metal surface

Saturday, 14:45 - 16:00, Plasmonics  (chair: S. Garcia-Blanco)

14:45 - 15:15	Z. Han, S.I. Bozhevolnyi (invited), Modelling of plasmonic waveguides (presentation by Z. Han)
15:15 - 15:30	W. Walasik, Y. Kartashov, G. Renversez, Plasmon-soliton waves: towards realistic modelling
15:30 - 15:45	P. Kwiecien, J. Ctyroky, I. Richter, Hybrid dielectric plasmonic slot guiding nanostructures --- analysis with Fourier modal methods
15:45 - 16:00	A. Alparslan, Ch. Hafner, Analysis of layered media plasmonic waveguides by Multiple Multipole Program