Summary
the 2014 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications
2014
Session Number:C3L-B
Session:
Number:C3L-B4
Processing based on fluctuations in a nanometric space and corresponding optical applications in a macroscopic space
Naoya Tate, Makoto Naruse, Tadashi Kawazoe, Motoichi Ohtsu,
pp.586-589
Publication Date:2014/9/14
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Effective utilization of fluctuations in a nanometric physical system is one of the fundamental issues that will be faced in the practical implementation of future processing systems. While fluctuations themselves often show random behavior, it is expected that optimized nanometric structures will be realized by development of a suitable control method on the nanometric scale. On the other hand, recent research on nanophotonics utilizing the characteristic behavior of dressed photons has resulted in several novel applications that work at macroscopic scales. The fundamental principle on which such techniques are based is controlled fluctuations involving interactions between light and materials in a nanometric space, and their corresponding macroscale optical functions. This paper describes concepts, experimental demonstrations, and applications of some recent activity on fluctuation-based nanophotonics, including nanophotonic droplets, dressed photon-assisted giant optical rotation, and compressive near-field optical microscopy.