Although a relatively new area of nanoscience, nonlinear plasmonics has become a fertile
ground for the development and testing of new ideas pertaining to light–matter interaction …

In recent years significant experimental advances in nano-scale fabrication techniques and
in available light sources have opened the possibility to study a vast set of novel light-matter …

We describe a numerical time-domain approach for high-accuracy calculations of Casimir-
Polder forces near microstructured materials. The use of a time-domain formulation enables …

We report on the strong enhancement of mid-infrared second-harmonic generation (SHG)
from SiC nanopillars due to the resonant excitation of localized surface phonon polaritons …

We report on the discovery and rationale to devise bright single optical eigenmodes that
feature quantum-optical mode volumes of about 1 nm 3. Our findings rely on the …

The nonlocal response of plasmonic materials and nanostructures is often described within
a hydrodynamic approach, which is based on the Euler-Drude equation. In this paper, we …

Second harmonic generation (SHG) is forbidden for materials with inversion symmetry, such
as bulk metals. Symmetry can be broken by morphological or dielectric discontinuities, yet …

The interaction of light with metallic nanostructures is increasingly attracting interest
because of numerous potential applications. Sub-wavelength metallic structures, when …

Modeling the interaction between light and a plasmonic nanoantenna, whose critical
dimension is of a few nanometers, is complex owing to the “hydrodynamic” motion of free …

Applications of metallic metamaterials have generated significant interest in recent years.
Electromagnetic behavior of metamaterials in the optical range is usually characterized by a …