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Extreme-ultraviolet light manipulation by a nanostructured solid
Short-wavelength light sources beyond the color that the human eye can perceive have tremendous application potential, but controlling them is notoriously di...
Femius Koenderink elected OSA Fellow
The Optica (formerly OSA) Board of Directors has elected Femius Koenderink to the 2022 Fellows Class. He is one of the 106 members to be honored this year. K...
AMOLF researchers unravel how nano-antennas enhance chemical reactions
The chemical industry consumes a lot of energy, not only to initiate reactions but also to separate products from by-products. In a promising emerging field ...
Isabelle Palstra defends her PhD
On september 27, Isabelle Palstra successfully defended her PhD work on ‘An investigation towards single-emitter hybrid photonic devices’. Congratulations Is...
Congratulations Ruslan Röhrich
On Dec. 11, Ruslan Röhrich successfully defended his thesis Unconventional Metrology: Merging Nanophotonics with Computational Imaging. Ruslan is the first P...
Thesis defense Annemarie Berkhout
On November 13, Annemarie Berkhout received her PhD degree at the University of Amsterdam for her thesis “Planar hybrid plasmonic-photonic resonators: an int...
Vogel spirals in Laser Photonics Review
Periodic arrays of plasmonic nanoantennas can enhance the directionality of light emission of nearby fluorophores. Unfortunately, their narrow spectral bandwi...
Perspective in ACS Photonics
The Perspective paper “single photon nano-antennas” in ACS Photonics reviews the use of plasmon antennas for single-photon applications. This idea was firs...