The
annual Special Session at the
ICTON International
Conference focuses on latest developments in theory and design of
artificial (photonic , plasmonic & hybrid) atoms and molecules as well as
their applications in biomedical research, communications, environmental
sensing, and classical and quantum optical information processing. Both, confined
photon states in microcavities and localized surface plasmon resonances on
metal nanoparticles have properties resembling those of confined electron
states in atoms, giving rise to the terms ‘photonic atoms’ and ‘plasmonic
atoms’, respectively. Interaction between light and matter in photonic &
plasmonic atoms can be enhanced and manipulated via their mutual
electromagnetic coupling when individual atoms are arranged into artificial
molecules, which paves the way to a variety of exciting applications in
basic science and technology.
The program will include invited and contributed papers as well as poster
presentations.
Only in 2012: Special Issue
of International Journal of Optics:
The
authors will be notified on the acceptance by May 5, 2012. Post-deadline
papers with very recent results are requested by June 1, 2012.
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Special Session history
1st Special
Session: ICTON'06 - Nottingham, UK, June 2006
30 papers from USA, Ireland, UK, China,
Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, Korea, Japan, Italy, Switzerland
2nd Special
Session: ICTON'07 - Rome, Italy, July 2007
42 papers from USA, Ireland, UK, China, Germany,
Ukraine, Russia, Korea, Japan, Italy, Greece, Iran, Switzerland
Invited speakers:
Vasily N. Astratov (UnivNCCharlotte,
USA)
Takahisa Harayama (ATR Labs,
Japan)
Hakan Tureci (ETH Zurich,
Switzerland)
Andrey Matsko (JPL, USA)
Alexander Burin (Tulane
University, USA)
Francesco Morichetti (Polit.
di Milano, Italy)
3rd Special Session: ICTON'08 - Athens, Greece, June 2008
40 papers from USA, Ireland, UK, China,
Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Korea, Japan, Italy, Greece, Spain, France,
Canada, The Netherlands
Invited speakers:
K. Wörhoff (UnivTwente, The Netherlands)
T. Harayama (ATR Labs, Japan)
Yu. Rakovich (Trinity College, Ireland)
S. Noda (KyotoUniv, Japan)
A.I. Nosich (IRE NASU, Ukraine)
T.M. Benson (Univ Nottingham, UK)
R. Pregla (Fern
Universität, Hagen, Germany)
N. Sakhnenko (KhNURE,
Ukraine)
A. Delâge (Inst Sci. Microstructures,
Canada)
J. Martorell (Inst Photon
Sci, Spain)
G.A. Stanciu (Univ Pol.
Bucuresti, Romania)
4th Special Session: ICTON'09 –
Azores
,
Portugal
,
June 2009
45 papers from USA, Ireland, UK, China,
Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Korea, Japan, Italy, Spain, France,
Canada, The Netherlands, Australia
Invited speakers:
Kyungwon An (Seoul National University, Korea)
Vasily Astratov (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Jeremy Baumberg (University of Cambridge, UK)
Paola Borri (Cardiff University, UK)
Jean-Michel Gerard (CEA, Grenoble, France)
Nigel P. Johnson (University of Glasgow, UK)
Alexey Kavokin (University of Southampton, UK)
Jordi Martorell (ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona, Spain)
Thomas Pertsch (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany)
Misha Sumetsky (OFS Laboratories, USA)
Michalis Zervas (University of Southampton, UK)
S. Tomljenovic‑Hanic (CUDOS,
Australia)
T.M. Benson (University of Nottingham, UK)
5th
Special Session: ICTON'10 – Munich,
Germany
,
June 2010
33 papers from USA, Ireland, UK, China, Germany, Ukraine,
Russia, Korea, Japan, Italy, Spain, France, Canada, Israel, Iran,
Denmark
Invited speakers:
Kyungwon An (Seoul
National Univ, Korea)
Vasily Astratov (Univ North Carolina Charlotte, USA)
Mario Armenise (Politecnico di Bari, Italy)
Henri Benisty (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Artem Boriskin (Univ de Rennes1, France & IRE NASU, Ukraine)
Gin Jose (Univ Leeds, UK)
Alfred Meixner (Univ Tübingen, Germany)
Phillip Sewell (Univ Nottingham, UK)
Jacob Scheuer (Tel-Aviv Univ, Israel)
Mikhail Sumetsky (OFS Labs, USA)
Selim Unlu (Boston Univy, USA)
Frank Vollmer (Harvard Univ, USA)
Ana Vukovic (Univ Nottingham, UK)
6th Special Session: ICTON'11 -
Stockholm, Sweden, July 2011
35
papers
from USA, Ireland, UK, China, Germany, Ukraine, Korea, Japan, Italy,
Sweden, France, Spain, The Netherlands
Invited speakers:
Kyungwon
An (Seoul Natl Univ, Korea)
Lucio Claudio Andreani (Univ degli Studi di Pavia,
Italy)
Vasily Astratov (Univ North Carolina Charlotte, USA)
Jeremy
Baumberg (Univ Cambridge, UK)
Henri Benisty (Inst d’Optique Grad School, France)
Frederique de Fornel (Univ de Bourgogne, France)
Markus
Lippitz (Max-Planck-Inst Solid State Research, Germany)
Yury
Rakovich (Spanish Natl Research Council, Spain)
Bjoern Reinhard (Boston Univ, USA)
Giancarlo
C. Righini (Natl Research Council, Italy)
