Martin Kuttge,1,* Wei Cai,2,3 F. Javier García de Abajo,2 and Albert Polman4 1Center for Nanophotonics, FOM–Institute AMOLF, Sciencepark 113, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2Instituto de Óptica–CSIC, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain 3The Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education and TEDA Applied Physics School, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China 4Center f...

Diamond nanophotonics have evolved tremendously from the study of color centers in bulk single crystals and nanocrystals to their characterization in nanostructured environments. This development was facilitated by the ability to generate monolithic, sophisticated nanodevices in high quality single crystal diamond. Here, we present some recent contributions to the field of diamond nanophotonics...

New paradigms for optical physics emerge from atoms trapped in one and two-dimensional dielectric waveguides [1,2]. Photons propagating in the guided modes of the waveguides can mediate long-range atom-atom interactions. In a complimentary fashion, photon-photon interactions can arise by way of the underlying lattice of atoms. This new future of atom nanophotonics has the potential to provide t...

We approach nanophotonic computing on the basis of optical near-field interactions between quantum dots. A table lookup, or matrix-vector multiplication, architecture is proposed. As fundamental functionality, a data summation mechanism and digital-to-analog conversion are experimentally demonstrated using CuCl quantum dots. Owing to the diffraction-limit-free nature of nanophotonics, these arc...

Over the last few years, micro- and nanophotonics have roused a strong interest in the scientific community for their promising impact on the development of novel kinds of solar cells. Certain thin- and ultrathin-film solar cells are made of innovative, often cheap, materials which suffer from a low energy conversion efficiency. Light-trapping mechanisms based on nanophotonics principles are pa...