3rd ASIA-PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON NEAR FIELD OPTICS

TECHNICAL PROGRAM SUMMARY

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Wednesday, November 28

Eden on the Park Hotel

Morning session common with MultiDimensional Microscopy Conference

Link to MDMC progam summary

Plenary Joint Session (Parkside Room 4)

2:00

Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop,

The University of Queensland

Quantum Effects In Colloidal Quantum Dots

2:30

S.Kawata

Osaka University

Two-photon micro-polymerisation: resolution, function and scaling effects

3:00

Tea Break

Data Storage (Parkside Room 4)

3:30

M.Ohtsu

Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Developing nano-photonic devices and their integration by optical near-field

4:00

J. Tominaga, J. H. Kim, D. Büchel, C. Mihalcea, T. Shima, T. Nakano, H. Fuji, T. Kikukawa, and N. Atoda

Laboratory for Advanced Optical Technology (LAOTECH), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),

Optical diffraction and surface plasmons over small marks

4:20:

Takashi Nakano, Nobufumi Atoda , Junji Tominaga and Takashi Kikukawa Laboratory for Advanced Optical Technology (LAOTECH), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Polarisation and laser power dependence of small pits image formation with germanium thin layer

4:40

Wei Chih Lin, Fu Han Ho, Hsun Hao Chang, Chien Wen Huang, Yu Hsuan Lin, Din Ping Tsai

Department of, physics, National Taiwan University

Near field optical properties of AgO x thin-film photonic transistor

5:00

Dominique Barchiesi, Radouane Fikri, Stéphane Petit and Olivier Bergossi Laboratoire de nanotechnologie et d'Instrumentation Optique, Université de technologie de Troyes

Influence of surface and localised plasmon resoance in the window size of the readout layer of a super-rens type multiplayer.

5:20

End of proceedings for the day

 

Thursday, November 29

Hercus Lecture Theatre, The University of Melbourne

Optical Trapping

8:30

Opening Ceremony

9:00

W.Jhe

Department of Physics, Seoul National University

Toward real-time near-field optical microscopy

9:30

S. M. Iftiquar, Haruhiko Ito, Akifumi Takamizawa and Motoichi Ohtsu

ERATO Localized Photon Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Excitation of a funnel shaped optical near field by the Laguerre-Gaussian doughnut

9:50

A. Takamizawa, S. M. Iftiquer, H. Ito, M. Ohtsu

Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, ERATO Localized Photon Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Observation of cold atom reflection in a near-field optical funnel

10:10

J. R. Arias-González and M. Nieto-Vesperinas

Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Electromagnetic resonances and Optical Forces on nanoparticles: modelling photonic force microscopy

10:30

Tea Break

Spectroscopy

11:00

Yoshihito Narita, Tsutomu Inoue, and Shigeyuki Kimura

JASCO Corporation Narita

Near-Field FTIR Spectroscopy

11:20

N.Hayazawa, Y.Inouye, Z.Sekkat and S.Kawata

Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University

Near Field Raman Imaging of Organic Molecules by an apertureless metallic probe scanning optical microscope

11:40

Tatsuhiro Masaki, Atsushi Ono, Kazuya Goto, Yasushi Inouye and Satoshi Kawata Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University

Mid infrared near-field imaging-spectroscopy with free-electron laser

12:00

Hiroharu Tamaru, Hideki T. Miyazaki, Hitoshi Kuwata, and Kenjiro Miyano

RCAST, The University of Tokyo

Spectroscopic Analysis of light scattered by individual silver nanoparticles

12:20

Lunch

Photonics & Imaging I

1:30

M.Gu

Swinburne University of Technology

Scanning TIR microscopy: near-field Mie scattering and localized morphology-dependent resonance

2:00

Shane Huntington & John Canning

School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne

Precision Fabrication Of Fresnel Lenses Directly Onto Optical Fibre Tips Using Etching And Atomic Force Microscopy

2:20

S.K Rhodes, KA Nugent and A Roberts

School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia

Precision Characterisation Of Fields In The Focal Regions Of High Numerical Aperture Lenses Using Tapered Fibre Probes

2:40

Fu Han Ho, Yuan Hsing Fu, Din Ping Tsai

Department of Physics, National Taiwan University

Three-dimensional near-field imaging of a focussed point

3:00

Tea Break

Probes I

3:00 – 5:00

Poster Session

Poster session

Hercus Lecture Theatre Foyer, The University of Melbourne

Resolution Limit To Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy Related To Optical Fiber Parameters

Lydia Alvarez, Angel Sauceda and Mufei Xiao

Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, CP 21280, Mexicali, Baja California, México

New Methods for improved optical near field fiber probes

H.N. Aiyer, T. Kawazoe and M. Ohtsu

ERATO Localized Photon Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Surface Plasmon Generation In Photoactivated Silver Oxide Thin Films

D. Büchel, C. Mihalcea, M. Kuwahara, N. Atoda, J. Tominaga

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Laboratory for Advanced Optical Technology

Scanning Probe Microscopy Using A Digital Phase-Locked Loops Integrated Circuits

Mun-Heon Hong, Changhoon Gim, Yongho Seo and Wonho Jhe

School of Physics & Center for Near-field Atom-photon Technology, Seoul National University

Single-Molecule Assay Of Biomolecules Using GFP.

Atsuko Hikikoshi Iwane, So Nishikawa, Kayo Hibino, Mitsuhiro Iwaki, Yasunori Komori, Yasushi Sako & Toshio Yanagida

Department of Physiology, Osaka University Medical School

Diffraction Of Strongly Focused Light Beams

N.I. Petrov

Storage Lab., Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

Effect Of Metal Doping Into Ago x Films Used As A Probe For Super-Resolutional Readout

Takayuki Shima, Dorothea Buchel, Christophe Mihacea, Jooho Kim, Nobufumi Atoda and Junji Tominaga

Laboratory for Advanced Optical Technology (Laotech), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Near-field Spectroscopy of Modulation-doped GaAs Quantum Structures under High Magnetic Fields

T.Tokizaki , T.Onuki, Y.Watanabe, T.Tsutiya, T.Tani and H.Yokoyama

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba

Development of the scanning near field optical microscope measuring component

Y.Toriyama, K.Masumitu, Y.Miyazaki, Y.Sugawara and S.Morita

Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University,

Position Control and Rotation of Micrometer-Sized Object with Evanescent Photon Force

N. Umeda, S.Nam, S. Shimada, and A.Takayanagi

Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology

Surface plasmon coupling on a gold thin film with indented array

Hsia Yu Lin, Chien Wen Huang, Wei-Chih Liu, Din Ping Tsai

Department of physics, National Taiwan University

Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscope with a small protrusion probe and optical distance control

Noritaka Yamamoto and Takashi Hiraga

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) KANSAI

A plasmon waveguide for optical/near field conversion

T. Yatsui, T. Abe, M. Kourogi, and M. Ohtsu

Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Near-field components of the photoluminescence in silicon nano-structure and its evaluation

T. Yatsui, T. Kawazoe, and M. Ohtsu

Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Optical Transition Process in AgO x Films

Fu Han Ho, Hsun Hao Chang, Yu Hsuan Lin,Din Ping Tsai

Department of Physics, National Taiwan University

Friday, November 30

Hercus Lecture Theatre, The University of Melbourne

Probes II

8:30

Xing Zhu, Shifa Xu, Yumin Shen, Xiaoling Liu, Jiancheng Hu, Ping Lu, Hetian Zhou, Jingshan Hao, Zhonghe Zhai, Peter von Blanckenhagen

State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Department of Physics, Peking University

Sub-Micron Imaging And Spectroscopy Of Appoptosised HeLa Cells

9:00

Y. Inouye, A. Tarun, N. Hayazawa, and S. Kawata

Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University

Near Field nano-fabrication of photoresist film using tip-enhanced field

9:20

Jia Wang, Tiejun Xu, Liqun Sun, Jiying Xu, Qian Tian

State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Tsinghua University

Aperture design of nano-aperture semiconductor laser and analysis of near-field distribution

9:40

Y. Kawata

Shizuoka University

Localisation of surface plasmon using a metal coated axicon prism

10:00

Shinya Ohkubo and Norihiro Umeda

Department of Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Electromagnetic field analysis for circularly polarised light at the apex of near field optical probe

10:20

Dominique Barchiesi, Radouane Fikri and Pascal Royer

Laboratoire de nanotechnologie et d'Instrumentation Optique, Université de technologie de Troyes

Finite element model for both realistic micrometric near-field optical probes and nanometric structures: application to wavelength interactions

10:40

Tea break

Photonics & Imaging II

11:10

S. T. Huntington and P. Hartley

School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne

Application Of Evanescent Wave Optics To The Determination Of Absolute Distance In Surface Force Measurements Using A Combined AFM/NSOM System

11:30

T.Onuki, T.Tsutiya, T.Tani and T.Tokizaki

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Nanometre size optical waveguide with metal clad layers

11:50

E. Ampem-Lassen, A. Roberts and S.T. Huntington

School of Physics, The University of Melbourne

Application Of NSOM To Optical Fibre Refractive Index Profiling

12:10

Lunch

 

Near Field Optical Interactions I

1:30

Din Ping Tsai, Wei-Chih Liu, Wei Chih Lin, Fu Han Ho, Yuan-Hsing Fu, Hsun-Hau Chang, Yu-Hsuan Lin

Department of Physics, National Taiwan University

Near-field optical effects of the surface plasmons of the super-resolution near field optical structures

2:00

K. Kobayashi, S. Sangu, T. Kawazoe, A. Shojiguchi, and M. Ohtsu

ERATO Localized Photon Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Optical near-field interaction and its application to nanodevice

2:20

S. Sangu, K. Kobayashi, T. Kawazoe, and M. Ohtsu

ERATO Localized Photon Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation

Inter-quantum dot energy transfer via optical near field interaction

2:40

A. Shojiguchi, K. Kobayashi, K. Kitahara, S. Sangu, M. Ohtsu

International Christian University

Excitation transfer by optical near field interaction: localised photon picture

3:00

Tea break

Near-Field Optical Interactions II

3:30

Tadashi Kawazoe, Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Suguru Sangu, Jungshik Lim, Yoshihito Narita and Motoichi Ohtsu

Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)

Dipole forbidden energy transfer via optical near-field interaction between cuprous chloride quantum cubes

3:50

Masanobu Haraguchi, Toshihiro Okamoto and Masuo Fukui

Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokushima

Non-linear microsphere optical switching device due to near field coupling: numerical ananlysis

4:10

Wei-Chih Liu and Din Ping Tsai

Department of Physics, National Taiwan Normal University

Near-field distributions of localised surface plasmon resonances in metallic nanostructures

4:30

Yasuhiro Sugawara, YosukeToriyama, Kanehiro Masumitsu and Seizo Morita

Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University

Force imaging of optical near field with 1.5nm lateral resolution

4:50

Closing comments

K.A.Nugent

5:00

End of technical proceedings

Saturday, December 1

Tour of the Melbourne area

Puffing Billy with Australian Wildlife

8:30am (TBC)

-5:45pm (TBC)

Includes historic steam train ride, Healesville Sanctuary, Aussie style bush billy tea, wine tasting and lunch at Fergusson's winery and a ride through the Dandenong Ranges with bellbirds and kookaburras