This review provides a perspective on the recent developments in the transmission of light
through subwavelength apertures in metal films. The main focus is on the phenomenon of …

Ultra‐fast nano‐optics is a comparatively young and rapidly growing field of research aiming
at probing, manipulating and controlling ultrafast optical excitations on nanometer length …

Enhancement of transversal magneto-optical Kerr effect (TKE) is controlled experimentally in
magnetoplasmonic subwavelength nanogratings made of nickel films by resonant excitation …

Spectral interferometry is employed to fully characterize amplitude and phase of propagating
plasmons that are transmitted through silver nanowires in the form of ultrashort pulses. For …

In this article, studies on noble metal nanostructures using near-field optical microscopic
imaging are reviewed. We show that near-field transmission imaging and near-field two …

The magneto-optical properties of a hybrid metal-dielectric structure consisting of a one-
dimensional gold grating on top of a magnetic waveguide layer are studied experimentally …

In this work, a compact and ultrathin plasmonic metasurface is proposed for an ultrashort
pulse shaping method in the optical regime based on linear filtering principles. A planar …

Combining ultrafast coherent spectroscopy with nano-optical microscopy techniques offers a
wealth of new possibilities for exploring the structure and function of nanostructures. In this …

We perform ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy of plasmonic structures beyond the
perturbative excitation regime. As a prototypical system we choose gold nanorods dispersed …

We demonstrate an essentially dispersion-free and diffraction-limited focusing of few-cycle
laser pulses through all-reflective microscope objectives. By transmitting 6-fs-pulses from a …