Nanophotonics is where photonics merges with nonoscience and nanotechnology, and where spatial confinement considerably modifies light propagation and light-mater interactions. This course will introduce basic phenomena, principles, experimental advances, and potential impact of nanophotonics. The course will highlight practical issues, material properties, device feasibility of materials with nanostructured feature. The following topics will be discussed in this course.

1. 1. Introduction
Nanoengineering and sciences, Nanophotonics materials, Nanofabrication, Nano characterization, Market and applications.
2. Foundations of nanophotonics
Photons and electrons, Confinements of electron and photons, Tunneling, Localization effects, Cooperative effects, Nanoscale optical interactions, Surface plasma resonance.
3. Quantum confinement materials
Quantum wells, Quantum wires, Quantum dots, Manifestations of quantum confinement,
4. Photonic crystals fundamentals
Photonic crystals, Opal and inverse opal structures, One dimensional photonic crystal, Photonic bandgap, Two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals, Properties of photonic crystals and their applications, Defects in photonic crystals
5. Nonlinear optics with photonic crystals
Nonlinear effects, Composite materials for nonlinear optics, Photonic bandgap nonlinear enhancements,
6. Photonic crystals slab waveguides
2D rods slab, 2D air membrane slab, microcavity and defects
7. Fabrication of photonic crystals
Top down techniques, Photo-lithography technique, E-beam lithography technique, Two photon lithography technique, Holography lithography technique, Bottom up techniques, Self-assembling of nano colloids, Self-assembling of block copolymers
8. Photonic crystal fiber
Conventional fiber, Photonic crystal fibers, Hollow core bandgap fibers, Solid core holey fiber, Onmi guide fiber, Nonlinear holey fibe
Nanophotonics plasmonics.