Topics

NFO-9 will provide a well focused conference on near-field optics and related topics, including:

• Novel concepts and phenomena in near-field optics
• Nanophotonics
• Advances in instrumentation
• Light-matter interactions at the nanoscale
• Plasmonics
• Optical signal processing at the nanoscale
• Theory and modelling
• Quantum optics in the near-field
• Nanophotonic circuits and designs
• Applications in biology, chemistry, solid-state physics and material sciences
• Nonlinear and ultrafast phenomena
• Spectroscopy
• Near-field enhancement phenomena (SERS, fluorescence, CARS)
• Cavity nano-optics including photonic and plasmonic crystals
• Industrial applications
• Building blocks for nanophotonic devices
• Optical metamaterials
• Miscellaneous