Course

 

Optical and Electronic Properties of Nanomaterials

 

Lecture 1: Linear Optics (Part 1)
- Introduction
- Review: Geometrical Optics
- Review: Wave Optics (Fresnel- & Fraunhofer-Diffraction)

Lecture 2: Linear Optics (Part 2)
- What’s peculiar in Nanophotonics?
- Near-field Microscopy and Single Molecule Spectroscopy
- Size-dependent effects (Plasmonics, Quantum Dots, Wires, Wells)
- Size-independent (collective) effects Applications

 

Lecture 3: Nonlinear Optics and Magnetoptics
- Origin of non-linear effect
- Field dependence of nonlinear susceptibility
- Third-order polarization
- Nonlinear Optical Applications

 

Lecture 4: Optoelectronics
- Origin of non-linear effect à field dependence of
- Third-order polarization
- Nonlinear Optical Applications
- Confinement effects in semiconductors

- Measurement of NLO response