INTRODUCTION TO NANOPHOTONICS

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Covers the fundamentals of Nanophotonics. Focuses on reading and evaluating contemporary literature on nanophotonics research. Students work within 3-person groups to read and understand seminal papers in this area. Once a week a group is chosen at random to lead an in-class discussion on the paper(s) assigned for that week. Example topics include surface plasmons, near-field microscopy, Purcell enhancements, photonic crystals, multipole expansions, and metamaterials.