Novel Waveguiding, Structures and Phenomena

Nowadays, the photonics advance is highly dependent on novel materials, waveguide structures and waveguiding phenomena, related to both fundamental and applied aspects. Novel materials include not only the design of bulk materials with new optical properties, but also of complex structures with different optical properties compared to those of the bulk material. We also have the development of materials with completely new optical properties, often tailored to specific applications or dependent on whole new phenomena at its most intimate structural level that makes us consider uncommon forces or conditions, and therefore reinvigorating the whole field. There is also a vast amount of research in the development of new waveguiding structures (integrated, fiber, photonic crystals) or waveguiding phenomena (solitons, plasmons) with enhanced effects and new phenomena resulting from clever designs, not to mention those brought in by the continuous smaller dimension. The potential realization of photonic devices, with performance far beyond from the current state of the art of photonics technology, is then fueled by the combination of such aspects. The potential application of such devices is quite broad and new, covering a full range of applications mainly for sensing and telecomm.

The “Novel Waveguiding, Structures and Phenomena” meeting aims to provide an interdisciplinary setting to discuss state-of-the-art advances, both fundamental and technological, in many aspects related to the development of novel materials, waveguide structures and phenomena and not limited to the currently perceived.

1.- Nonlinear Silicon Nano-Photonics: Nano-Optoelectronics, Nano-Antennas, Nano Sources and confined light emitters.
2.- Nonlinear Waveguides and Plasmonics
3.- Optical Fibers: Structured Fibers and Laser Fibers
4.- Metamaterials and Photonic Crystals
5.- Bio-Sensing and Sensing
6.- Ballistic Photonics
7.- Nano-Optics and Nano-Photonics: Fundamentals and Perspectives.
8.- Novel Active and Passive Photonic Integrated Devices.