We employed the atomic layer deposition technique to grow Al_2O_3 films with nominal
thicknesses of 400, 300, and 200 nm on silicon and soda lime glass substrates. The optical …

In the quest for new and increasingly efficient photon sources, the engineering of the
photonic environment at the subwavelength scale is fundamental for controlling the …

A systematic study of Bloch surface wave (BSW) properties and applications in diffraction-
based biosensors is presented. The design of such devices starts with the calculation of the …

We develop a fully quantum-mechanical approach for the description of spontaneous
parametric down-conversion in waveguides. Our method allows us to write an expression for …

Fourier analysis has been successfully applied to study optical properties of photonic crystal
structures, usually composed of optically isotropic media. In a commonly used formulation …

We investigate the light emission properties of electrical dipole emitters inside 2-
dimensional (2D) and 3-dimensional (3D) silicon slot waveguides and evaluate the …

We demonstrate record giant birefringence, nearly twice as large as has previously been
achieved (? n_group= 1.5 over more than 60 nm of bandwidth near?= 1550 nm) using a …

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A guided-wave chemical sensor for the detection of environmental pollutants or biochemical
substances has been designed. The sensor is based on an asymmetric directional coupler …

We compute the decay rates of emitters coupled to spheroidal nanoantennas made of gold,
copper, silver, and aluminum. The spectral position of the localized surface plasmon …