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Nanooptics

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Nanooptics deals with optical near fields, the electromagnetic fields that mediate the interaction between nanometric particles located in close proximity to each other. The optical near field mediates this interaction, whose energy is localized around the nanometric particles like an electron cloud around an atomic nucleus. Its decay length is proportional to the particle size. This chapter is primarily a review of nanophotonics, a leading branch of nanooptics, which is the technology utilizing the optical near field. The true nature of nanophotonics is to realize qualitative innovation in photonic devices, fabrications, and systems by utilizing novel functions and phenomena caused by optical near field interactions, which are impossible as long as conventional propagating light is used. As evidence of such qualitative innovation, this chapter describes novel nanophotonic devices, fabrication techniques, energy conversions, systems, and extensions related to science.

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Abbreviations

AFM:

atomic force microscope

CAM:

content addressable memory

CP:

coat protein

CW:

continuous wave

DCM:

4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-methyl-6-(p-dimethylaminostyryl)-4H-pyran

DEZ:

diethylzinc

DP-CP:

dressed photon carrying the coherent phonon energy

HOMO:

highest occupied molecular orbital

ITO:

indium–tin oxide

KDP:

potassium dihydrogen phosphate

LED:

light-emitting diode

LUMO:

lowest unoccupied molecular orbital

P3HT:

poly(3-hexylthiophene)

PCVD:

photochemical vapor deposition

QD:

quantum dot

RF:

radio frequency

SEM:

scanning electron microscope

UV:

ultraviolet

WDM:

wavelength division multiplexing

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Ohtsu, M. (2012). Nanooptics. In: Träger, F. (eds) Springer Handbook of Lasers and Optics. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19409-2_19

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