Progress in Nano-Electro-Optics I

Motoiochi Ohtsu was appointed a Research Associate, an Associate professor, a Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. From 1986 to 1987, while on leave from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, he joined the Crawford Hill Laboratory, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ. In 2004, he moved to the University of Tokyo as a professor. He has written over 417 papers and received 87 patents. He is the author, co-author, and editor of 55 books, including 22 in English. In 2000, he was appointed as the President of the Tokyo Chapter, LEOS, IEEE. From 2000, He is an executive director of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. His main field of interests is nanophotonics.He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. He is also a Tandem Member of the Science Council of Japan. Awards: 14 prizes from academic institutions, including the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering of Japan in 2007, the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics in 2009.

High-Throughput Probes for Near-Field Optics and Their Applications.- 1 High-Throughput Probes.- 2 Application to High-Density and High-Speed Optical Memory.- 3 Outlook.- References.- Modulation of an Electron Beam in Optical Near-Fields.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Review of Experiments.- 3 Basic Principle.- 4 Microgap Interaction Circuits.- 5 Theoretical Analyses of a Microslit.- 6 Experiment.- 7 Multiple-Gap Circuit.- 8 Microslit for Visible Light.- 9 Conclusion.- References.- Fluorescence Spectroscopy with Surface Plasmon Excitation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Theoretical Considerations.- 3 Experimental.- 4 Results and Discussion.- 5 Conclusions.- References.- Optical Characterization of In(Ga)As/GaAs Self-assembled Quantum Dots Using Near-Field Spectroscopy.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Relaxation Mechanism.- 3 Optical Properties of Self-assembled Quantum Dots: Far-Field Analysis.- 4 Near-Field Optical Spectroscopy.- 5 Conclusion.- References.- Quantum Theoretical Approach to Optical Near-Fields and Some Related Applications.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Projection Operator Method.- 3 Effective Operator and Effective Interaction.- 4 Electromagnetic Interaction with Matter: Minimal-Coupling and Multipole Hamiltonians.- 5 Elementary Excitation Modes and Electronic Polarization.- 6 Optical Near-Field Interaction: Yukawa Potential.- 7 Applications.- 8 Outlook.- References.

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