1. General Introduction and overview of the text: Qualitative remarks about the systems and effects found in nanophotonics and their important technological applications.
2. Mathematical Preliminaries:
a. Treatments of the effective dielectric properties of composites.
b. Treatments of the properties of periodic systems including Block waves, band structure, Wannier functions, and tight binding models.
c. Discussions of the finite difference time domain method and the method of moments.
d. Discussions of forces on mano-particles and atoms arising from gradients in the electromagnetic field intensities.
e. Summary of the basic properties of nonlinear optics: Kerr effect and second harmonic generation.
f. General treatment of the properties of soliton modes and of the generation of second harmonics of radiation. 3. Photonic crystals:
a. Treatment of photonic crystal band structure and its effect on the decay rate of excited atoms.
b. Discussion of photonic crystal cavities, lasers, and nano-cavity lasers.
c. Discussions of photonic crystal waveguides and their properties including both linear and nonlinear optical materials.
i. Treatments of in-channel and off-channel impurities in waveguides ii. Treatments of soliton modes in photonic crystal waveguides
d. Treatment of nonlinear effect of photonic crystal diodes and transistors.
e. Discussions of photonic crystal circuits and possible applications.
4. Metamaterials:
a. Discussions of index of refraction and the ideas of negative index materials. b. Discussions of how artificial nano-features such as split ring resonators function and how they can be used to design metamaterials with any desired refractive properties.
c. Treatment of the perfect lens.
d. Treatment of electromagnetic cloaking.
e. Treatment of Cherenkov and other radiative interactions and effects in negative index materials.
f. Treatment of linear and nonlinear modes in metamaterials. 5. Plasmmonics:
a. Discussions of the basic properties of surface plasmon-polaritons.
b. Treatment of plasmonic circuits.
c. Discussion of the properties of negative index materials in plasmonics.
d. Treatment of the enhanced transmission through gratings.
e. Discussion of the role of surface plasmons-polaritons in rough surface scattering and transmission.
f. Treatment of the principles of surface enhanced Raman scattering.
g. Discussions of some basic applications of plasmonic technology.
6. Subwavelength focusing:
About the Author: Prof. Arthur R. McGurn, CPhys, FInstP, is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, and an Outstanding Referee for the journals of the American Physical Society. He received the Ph.D. in Physics in 1975 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, followed by postdoctoral studies at Temple University, Michigan State University, and George Washington University (NASA Langley Research Center). The research interests of Prof. McGurn have included works in the theory of: magnetism in disorder materials, electron conductivity, the properties of phonons, ferroelectrics and their nonlinear dynamics, Anderson localization, amorphous materials, the scattering of light from disordered media and rough surfaces, the properties of speckle correlations of light, quantum optics, nonlinear optics, the dynamical properties of nonlinear systems, photonic crystals, and meta-materials. He has approximately 150 publications spread amongst these various topics. Since 1981 he has taught physics at Western Michigan University where he is currently a Professor of Physics and a WMU Distinguished Faculty Scholar. A number of Ph.D. students have graduated from Western Michigan University under his supervision.
