Albert Polman

In the period March 2003 - February 2004 I have spent a sabbatical year as a visiting associate in the group of Prof. Harry Atwater at CALTECH. I have also worked closely with the group of Prof. Kerry Vahala. My research topics during my sabbatical study were optical properties of active silica micro-resonators as well as surface plasmon nanophotonics. In February 2004 I have returned to my home institution, the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. I remain affiliated with CALTECH as a visiting associate in the Applied Physics Department.

Prof. Albert Polman
FOM-Institute AMOLF
Kruislaan 407, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
tel: +31-20-6081234 (direct: 6081231), fax: +31-20-6684106, e-mail: polman@amolf.nl
Click here for my group’s website at AMOLF and here for our list of publications

Here is a list of papers to which I have contributed during my sabbatical stay at CALTECH:

• Ultra-low threshold erbium-implanted toroidal microlaser on silicon
  A. Polman, B. Min, J. Kalkman, T.J. Kippenberg, and K.J. Vahala, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 1037 (2004)
• Low-threshold erbium-implanted toroidal microcavity laser
  B. Min, T.J. Kippenberg, L. Yang, K.J. Vahala, J. Kalkman, and A. Polman, Proc. CLEO (CLEO, 2004, in press)
• Towards Er-doped Si nanocrystal sensitized microcavity lasers or amplifiers
  A. Polman, T.J. Kippenberg, B. Min, J. Kalkman, R. Walters, H.A. Atwater, and K.J. Vahala, Proc. OSA Conference on Optical Amplifiers (OSA, 2004, in press)
• Very large plasmon band shift in strongly coupled metal nanoparticle chain arrays
  L.A. Sweatlock, J.J. Penninkhof, S.A. Maier, A. Polman, and H.A. Atwater, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 797 W4.6.1 (2004)
• MeV ion beam induced anisotropic plasmon resonance of silver nanocrystals in glass
  J.J. Penninkhof, A. Polman, L.A. Sweatlock, S.A. Maier, H.A. Atwater, A.M. Vredenberg and B.J. Kooi, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 4137 (2003)
• Quenching of Si nanocrystal photoluminescence by doping with gold or phosphorous
  A.L. Tchebotareva, M.J.A. de Dood, J.S. Biteen, H.A. Atwater, and A. Polman, submitted to Mat. Sci. Eng. B.
• Large spectral birefringence in photo-addressable polymer films
  B. Lachut, S.A. Maier, H.A. Atwater, M.J.A. de Dood, A. Polman, R. Hagen and S. Kostromine, submitted to Adv. Mat.
• Erbium-implanted high-Q silica toroidal microcavity laser on a silicon chip
  B. Min, T.J. Kippenberg, L. Yang, K.J. Vahala, J. Kalkman, and A. Polman, Phys. Rev. A., in press
• Tunable Si quantum dot – erbium coupling
  A. Polman, T.J. Kippenberg, R. Walters, J. Kalkman, K.J. Vahala, H.A. Atwater, in preparation
• Field densities and coupling bandwidth in strongly coupled silver nanoparticles arrays
  L.A. Sweatlock, J.A. Dionne, A. Polman, and H.A. Atwater, in preparation
• Surface plasmon dispersion and damping in ultra-thin silver plasmon waveguides
  J.A. Dionne, A. Polman, and H.A. Atwater, in preparation

publications at CALTECH site

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last updated: 06/16/2004