Nonlinear Super-Resolution Nano-Optics and Applications PDF Download

Author: Jingsong Wei
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3662444887
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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This book covers many advances in the subjects of nano-optics and nano photonics. The author describes the principle and technical schematics of common methods for breaking through the optical diffraction limit and focuses on realizing optical super-resolution with nonlinear effects of thin film materials. The applications of nonlinear optical super-resolution effects in nano-data storage, nanolithography, and nano-imaging are also presented. This book is useful to graduate students majoring in optics and nano science and also serves as a reference book for academic researchers, engineers, technical professionals in the fields of super-resolution optics and laser techniques, nano-optics and nano photonics, nano-data storage, nano imaging, micro/nanofabrication and nanolithography and nonlinear optics.

Author: Shuji Sakabe
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319122177
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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This book presents the state of the art in nonlinear nanostructures for ultrafast laser applications. Most recent results in two emerging fields are presented: (i) generation of laser-induced nanostructures in materials like metals, metal oxides and semiconductors, and (ii) ultrafast excitation and energy transfer in nanoscale physical, chemical and hybrid systems. Particular emphasis is laid on the up-to-date controversially discussed mechanisms of sub-wavelength ripple formation including models of self-organized material transport and multiphoton excitation channels, nonlinear optics of plasmonic structures (nanotips, nanowires, 3D-metamaterials), and energy localization and transport on ultrafast time scale and spatial nanoscale. High-resolution spectroscopy, simulation and characterization techniques are reported. New applications of ultrashort-pulsed lasers for materials processing and the use of nanostructured materials for characterizing laser fields and laser-matter-interactions are discussed.

Author: Putz, Mihai V.
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 1522504931
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Global economic demands and population surges have led to dwindling resources and problematic environmental issues. As the climate and its natural resources continue to struggle, it has become necessary to research and employ new forms of sustainable technology to help meet the growing demand. Sustainable Nanosystems Development, Properties, and Applications features emergent research and theoretical concepts in the areas of nanotechnology, photovoltaics, electrochemistry, and materials science, as well as within the physical and environmental sciences. Highlighting progressive approaches and utilization techniques, this publication is a critical reference source for researchers, engineers, students, scientists, and academicians interested in the application of sustainable nanotechnology.

Author: Anatoly V. Zayats
Publisher: Artech House
ISBN: 1596932848
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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"This groundbreaking book focuses on near-field microscopy which has opened up optical processes at the nanoscale for direct inspection. Further, it explores the emerging area of nano-optics which promises to make possible optical microscopy with true nanometer resolution. This frontline resource helps you achieve high resolution optical imaging of biological species and functional materials. You also find guidance in the imaging of optical device operation and new nanophotonics functionalities"--EBL.

Author: Chunfei Li
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811014884
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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This book reflects the latest advances in nonlinear optics. Besides the simple, strict mathematical deduction, it also discusses the experimental verification and possible future applications, such as the all-optical switches. It consistently uses the practical unit system throughout. It employs simple physical images, such as "light waves" and "photons" to systematically explain the main principles of nonlinear optical effects. It uses the first-order nonlinear wave equation in frequency domain under the condition of “slowly varying amplitude approximation" and the classical model of the interaction between the light and electric dipole. At the same time, it also uses the rate equations based on the energy-level transition of particle systems excited by photons and the energy and momentum conservation principles to explain the nonlinear optical phenomenon. The book is intended for researchers, engineers and graduate students in the field of optics, optoelectronics, fiber communication, information technology and materials etc.

Author: Gan Fuxi
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9814613207
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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In the big data era, data storage is one of the cores in the whole information chain, which includes production, transfer, sharing, and finally processing. Over the years, the growth of data volume has been explosive. Today, various storage services need memories with higher density and capacity. Moreover, information storage in the big data applic

Author: Motoichi Ohtsu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461548357
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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Conventional optical science and technology have been restricted by the diffraction limit from reducing the sizes of optical and photoruc devices to nanometric dimensions. Thus, the size of optical integrated circuits has been incompatible with that of their counterpart, integrated electronic circuits, which have much smaller dimensions. This book provides potential ideas and methods to overcome this difficulty. Near-field optics has developed very rapidly from around the middle 1980s after preliminary trials in the microwave frequency region, as proposed as early as 1928. At the early stages of this development, most technical efforts were devoted to realizing super-high-resolution optical microscopy beyond the diffraction limit. However, the possibility of exploiting the optical near-field, phenomenon of quasistatic electromagnetic interaction at subwavelength distances between nanometric particles has opened new ways to nanometric optical science and technology, and many applications to nanometric fabrication and manipulation have been proposed and implemented. Building on this historical background, this book describes recent progress in near-field optical science and technology, mainly using research of the author's groups. The title of this book, Near-Field Nano-Optics-From Basic Principles to Nano-Fabrication and Nano-Photonics, implies capabilities of the optical near field not only for imaging/microscopy, but also for fabrication/manipulation/proc essing on a nanometric scale.

Author: Nicolò Accanto
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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Nanophotonics aims to understand and control the interaction of light-matter at the nanometer scale. Boosted by the development of nanotechnology and nanofabrication, nanophotonics is a thriving research field, with applications in areas as diverse as optical communications, biological imaging, super-resolution microscopy and photovoltaics. For the design of specific structures and the development of new applications, it is vital to study and understand the basic ultrafast dynamical interactions of light with individual nanoparticles (NPs). The practical realization of experiments in which single nanoparticles are addressed with temporal resolution on the femtosecond scale is very demanding. The first goal of this thesis is to develop a robust and easy to operate experimental scheme, based on the combination of ultrashort phase-controlled laser pulses and high-resolution optical microscopes, which allows the desired ultrashort laser pulses to be delivered to localized nanometric volumes. Not only do we need to observe, but also to manipulate ultrafast light-matter interactions at the nanoscale by using precisely tailored laser fields, a concept that is often referred to as coherent control. The main goal of the thesis is to extend coherent control concepts, so far mainly applied to ensembles of systems, to the manipulation of ultrafast light-matter interactions in individual nanoparticles. Experimentally, this is realized by using ultrashort laser pulses, whose spectral phase can be precisely controlled, and measuring nonlinear optical responses from individual nanoparticles. The NPs investigated in this thesis can be divided into two categories: coherent and incoherent NPs. Coherent NPs present an intrinsic resonant response, in amplitude and phase, which can be resolved and controlled by the laser field. Resonant plasmonic nanoantennas constitute the main example of coherent NPs studied in the thesis. Incoherent NPs can be either non-resonant, or characterized by a very broad (much broader than the laser spectrum) resonance. Dielectric nonlinear NPs and semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) with broad absorptions are the incoherent NPs addressed here. Incoherent NPs are of crucial importance in this thesis. Based on the second harmonic generation (SHG) from incoherent dielectric NPs, a novel method to obtain full control of ultrashort pulses on a sub-diffraction-limited area is demonstrated. Successively, by using single semiconductor QDs and a novel optimization algorithm, a closed loop coherent control scheme capable of addressing single molecules and quantum emitters is realized and tested. Nonlinear interactions in plasmonic nanoantennas, depend both on the laser field and on their resonant response. Two different nonlinear responses, excited by ultrashort phase-controlled pulses, are studied: the SHG and the two-photon absorption (TPA). By studying the SHG, a precise measurement of the plasmon resonance in nanoantennasis performed, retrieving both spectral phase and amplitude. By using phase control, the possibility of using plasmonic nanoantennas for an improved imaging technique based on multicolor second harmonic labels is discussed and demonstrated. By investigating the TPA process, the presence of a coherent regime, only accessible by ultrashort pulses, is demonstrated. Finally the realization of a highly sensitive closed loop coherent control experiment on single nanoantennas is presented. The combined progress in nanotechnology and the ability discussed in this thesis to manipulate ultrafast nanoscale dynamics using light can lead the way towards new fascinating routes in the field of nanophotonics. The switching of light from one side to another of an asymmetric nanostructure, the selective investigation of different NPs at different times, the realization of super-resolution optical microscopy with femtosecond temporal resolution, are just few of the promising applications.

Author: Baldassare Di Bartolo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9400753136
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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This volume presents a considerable number of interrelated contributions dealing with the new scientific ability to shape and control matter and electromagnetic fields on a sub-wavelength scale. The topics range from the fundamental ones, such as photonic metamateriials, plasmonics and sub-wavelength resolution to the more applicative, such as detection of single molecules, tomography on a micro-chip, fluorescence spectroscopy of biological systems, coherent control of biomolecules, biosensing of single proteins, terahertz spectroscopy of nanoparticles, rare earth ion-doped nanoparticles, random lasing, and nanocoax array architecture. The various subjects bridge over the disciplines of physics, biology and chemistry, making this volume of interest to people working in these fields. The emphasis is on the principles behind each technique and on examining the full potential of each technique. The contributions that appear in this volume were presented at a NATO Advanced Study Institute that was held in Erice, Italy, 3-18 July, 2011. The pedagogical aspect of the Institute is reflected in the topics presented in this volume.

Author: Vasily Astratov
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030217221
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487

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This book presents the advances in super-resolution microscopy in physics and biomedical optics for nanoscale imaging. In the last decade, super-resolved fluorescence imaging has opened new horizons in improving the resolution of optical microscopes far beyond the classical diffraction limit, leading to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014. This book represents the first comprehensive review of a different type of super-resolved microscopy, which does not rely on using fluorescent markers. Such label-free super-resolution microscopy enables potentially even broader applications in life sciences and nanoscale imaging, but is much more challenging and it is based on different physical concepts and approaches. A unique feature of this book is that it combines insights into mechanisms of label-free super-resolution with a vast range of applications from fast imaging of living cells to inorganic nanostructures. This book can be used by researchers in biological and medical physics. Due to its logically organizational structure, it can be also used as a teaching tool in graduate and upper-division undergraduate-level courses devoted to super-resolved microscopy, nanoscale imaging, microscopy instrumentation, and biomedical imaging.