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Lecture

Plasmonic Modes: Bright and Dark

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MICRO-420: Selected topics in advanced optics

This course proposes a selection of different facets of modern optics and photonics. ...

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This lecture covers the concepts of plasmonic bright and dark modes, including their characteristics, numerical techniques for analysis, Lorentzian lineshape, Fano resonances, and coupled oscillator models. The instructor discusses the interaction between bright and dark modes, Fano resonance engineering, and the impact of losses on the modulation and resonance width.

Instructor

Olivier Martin

Olivier J.F. Martin received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 1989 and 1994, respectively, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. In 1989, he joined IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, where he investigated thermal and optical properties of semiconductor laser diodes. Between 1994 and 1997 he was a research staff member at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). In 1997 he received a Lecturer fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). During the period 1996-1999, he spent a year and a half in the U.S.A., as invited scientist at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). In 2001 he received a Professorship grant from the SNSF and became Professor of Nano-Optics at the ETHZ. In 2003, he was appointed Professor of Nanophotonics and Optical Signal Processing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), where he is currently head of the Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory and Director of the Microengineering Section.

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