Microphotonic devices employing strong confinement of light are of growing importance for key applications such as telecommunication and optical interconnects. They have unique and desirable characteristics but their extreme sensitivity to dimensional variations makes them difficult to successfully implement. Here, we discuss strategies towards the successful realization of strong confinement d...

Plasmonic waveguides can guide light along metal-dielectric interfaces with propagating wave vectors of greater magnitude than are available in free space and hence with propagating wavelengths shorter than those in vacuum. This is a necessary, rather than sufficient, condition for subwavelength confinement of the optical mode. By use of the reflection pole method, the two-dimensional modal sol...

We study effects of electron–electron interactions and confinement potential on the magneto-optical absorption spectrum in the far-infrared (FIR) range of lateral quantum dot molecules (QDMs). We calculate FIR spectra for three different QDM confinement potentials. We use an accurate exact diagonalization technique for two interacting electrons and calculate dipole transitions between two-body ...

Quantum confinement of electronic particles (negative electrons and positive holes) in nanocrystals produces unique optical and electronic properties that have the potential to enhance the power conversion efficiency of solar cells for photovoltaic and solar fuels production at lower cost. These approaches and applications are labeled third generation solar photon conversion. Prominent among th...

Selective spatial confinement of the electric field intensity is theoretically obtained for the light propagation along hybrid structures conformed by periodic and Fibonacci quasiperiodic dielectric multilayers. Sandwich-like configurations featuring periodic-quasiperiodic-periodic as well as quasiperiodic-periodic-quasiperiodic designs exhibit spatial localization of a large percent of the opt...

We present evidence for scattering induced optical limiting in a suspension of Si/SiO2 nanostructures in an isopropanol solution. The structures were studied by open and closed aperture z-scan with 6 ns Gaussian pulses at 532 nm from a frequency doubled, Q switched Nd:YAG laser. The linear absorption of the nanostructures displayed evidence of quantum confinement. An intensity dependent scatter...

Nanoscale slot waveguides of hyperbolic metamaterials are proposed and demonstrated for achieving large optical field enhancement. The dependence of the enhanced electric field within the air slot on waveguide mode coupling and permittivity tensors of hyperbolic metamaterials is analyzed both numerically and analytically. Optical intensity in the metamaterial slot waveguide can be more than 25 ...

Throughout this brief note all groups are assumed to be abelian p-primary, written additively as is customary when regarding the group structure. Since we shall deal exclusively only with p-torsion abelian groups, for some arbitrary but a fixed prime p, there should be no confusion in future removing the phrase ”is an abelian p-group”. Concerning the terminology, under the term a separable grou...

We treat resonant Raman scattering via the multiphonon exciton transitions in cylindrical quantum dots with a parabolic confinement in the lateral direction and with a finite rectangular interface-barrier confinement in the axial direction. The optical phonons and the electron-phonon interaction are considered within the multimode dielectric model. The model exploits both electrostatic and mech...