Abstract
Nanophotonics defined as nonoscale optical science and technology is a new frontia; which includes nanoscale confinement of radiation, nanoscale confinement of matter, and nonoscale photophysical or photochemical transformation. Selected examples of our research work in each of these areas are presented here. Nonlinear optical interactions involving nanoscale confinement of radiation is both theoretically and experimentally studied using a near-field geometry. The effort in nanoscale confinement of optical domains is focused to control excitation dynamics and energy transfer as well as to produce photon localization using nanostructured materials, rare-earth work on doped glasses and novel inorganic-organic photorefractive nanocomposites are presented. Spatially localized photochemistry using a near-field two-photon excitation is being developed for nanofabrication and nanoscale memory.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 59-66 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals |
| Volume | 374 |
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| State | Published - 2002 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials: A Conference on Advanced Materials, Emerging New Technologies and Business Opportunities - Recife, Brazil Duration: 4 Mar 2001 → 9 Mar 2001 |
Keywords
- Multibranched structure
- Nanophotonics
- Photonic crystals