By Vladimir M. Shalaev PhD,Satoshi Kawata

present advancements in optical applied sciences are being directed towards nanoscale units with subwavelength dimensions, within which photons are manipulated at the nanoscale. even if mild is obviously the quickest ability to ship details to and from the nanoscale, there's a basic incompatibility among gentle on the microscale and units and tactics on the nanoscale. Nanostructured metals which aid floor plasmon modes can focus electromagnetic (EM) fields to a small fraction of a wavelength whereas bettering neighborhood box strengths by way of a number of orders of value. therefore, plasmonic nanostructures can function optical couplers around the nano–micro interface: metal–dielectric and metal–semiconductor nanostructures can act as optical nanoantennae and improve gentle topic coupling in nanoscale units. This ebook describes how you can totally combine plasmonic nanostructures into dielectric, semiconductor, and molecular photonic units, for directing photons around the nano–micro interface and for detecting molecules with unsurpassed sensitivity.

·Nanophotonics and Nanoplasmonics
·Metamaterials and negative-index materials
·Plasmon-enhanced sensing and spectroscopy
·Imaging and sensing at the nanoscale
·Metal Optics

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