A review of nanoplasmonics is given. This includes fundamentals, nanolocalization of
optical energy and hot spots, ultrafast nanoplasmonics and control of the spatiotemporal …

Metallic nanostructures now play an important role in many applications. In particular, for the
emerging fields of plasmonics and nanophotonics, the ability to engineer metals on …

Ambitions to reach atomic resolution with light have been a major force in sha** nano-
optics, whereby a central challenge is achieving highly localized optical fields. A promising …

Optical antennas are devices that convert freely propagating optical radiation into localized
energy, and vice versa. They enable the control and manipulation of optical fields at the …

Optical antennas are an emerging concept in physical optics. Similar to radiowave and
microwave antennas, their purpose is to convert the energy of free propagating radiation to …

We present an experimental and theoretical study of the fluorescence rate of a single
molecule as a function of its distance to a laser-irradiated gold nanoparticle. The local field …

Control over light absorption and emission using plasmonic nanostructures is an enabling
technology, which can dramatically enhance the performances of existing optical and …

The rapid emergence of nanoplasmonics as a novel technology has been driven by recent
progress in the fabrication, characterization, and understanding of metal‐nanoparticle …

Fluorescence is widely used in optical devices, microscopy imaging, biology, medical
research and diagnosis. Improving fluorescence sensitivity, all the way to the limit of single …

The fluorescence from a single molecule can be strongly enhanced near a metal
nanoparticle acting as an optical antenna. We demonstrate the spectral tunability of this …