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...
Physics Thesis Prize for Hugo Doeleman
Doeleman wrote the best physics thesis of 2019: “Hybrid Resonators for Light Trapping and Emission Control”. The jury of the NWO Physics Thesis Prize were fu...
Polarization vortex at a bound state in the continuum
Stillness rules the eye of a hurricane; without a hurricane no eye, and without an eye no hurricane. In a similar manner, physicists of research institute AM...
ACS Photonics Young Lectureship Award 2018
Femius Koenderink (head of the AMOLF Center for Nanophotonics) is the winner of the 2018 ACS Photonics Young Investigator Award Lectureship. This lectureship...
Trapping light in plain sight
Embedded eigenstates are bound states that are bound despite their being nothing to prevent them from leaking into the surrounding radiative continuum. In L...
Perspective most read in 2017 in ACS Photonics
Our “Single Photon Nano-antennas” Perspective is 2017’s most read paper in ACS Photonics. The Perspective reviews the use of plasmon antennas for single-ph...
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...
IOP-NJP outstanding Referee
IOP, the publisher of New Journal of Physics decided to conver an Outstanding Referee Award for 2016 on Femius Koenderink. Many thanks to IOP for recognisi...
Science class in Ermelo
On february 15th, my colleague Bruno Ehrler and I explained the physics, technology and economoy of solar power, LED lights and optical communications to an...
Boundless Minds: Annemarie Berkhout
AMOLF is at the Amsterdam Science Park, an inspiring hub with the University of Amsterdam exact sciences, the Amsterdam University College, NWO research in...
Hybrid structures on the cover of ACS Photonics
Optical cavities or metallic antennas are frequently used to enhance interactions between light and a single quantum emitter. WE argue that hybrid systems c...
A zoo of quasiperiodic plasmon lasers
Plasmonic particle arrays enable unconventional miniature lasers by virtue of feedback by enhanced scattering, field confinement, and diffractive resonances....
PRL - Drexhage's experiment with a Chinese gong
Drexhage’s seminal observation that spontaneous emission rates of fluorophores vary with distance from a mirror uncovered the fundamental notion that a sou...
Superresolved LDOS
Periodic plasmonic nanostructures are promising in solid-state lighting scenarios for controlling photoluminescence directivity and efficiency. The inhomoge...
Angle-resolved cathodoluminescence polarimetry
Cathodoluminescence spectroscopy (CL) allows characterizing light emission in bulk and nanostructured materials and is a key tool in fields ranging from mat...
PRL-Nanoparticles unexpectedly make light move faster
The influence of a small perturbation on a cavity mode plays an important role in fields like optical sensing, cavity quantum electrodynamics, and cavity op...
Vici team now complete
The Vici team for the Vici-project Hybrid nanophotonic architectures for ultrafast quantum optics is now complete, with Christiaan Mennes joining Annemarie B...