Optical Metamaterials: Qualitative Models

Phenomenological Electrodynamics of materials with negative dielectric and magnetic constants.- Homogenization of Maxwell equations - macroscopic and microscopic approaches.- Phenomenological vs multipole models.- Charge dynamics and dielectric/magnetic constants elaboration.- Plasmons/Polaritons.- Transmission of light through subwavelength structures.- Multipole approach for homogenization of metamaterials (MM).- "Quantum" MM.

Arkadi Chipoulin graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (MS 1989) and obtained his PhD at the General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia in1995. He worked at the Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany from 1995 to 1999 and from 2005 to 2015, the University of Utah, USA from 1999 to 2001, and at the CORVIS Corporation, USA from 2001 to 2005.

He completed his "habilitation" in Experimental Physics at Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany in 2015.

In September 2017 he joined the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology as a professor at the Center of Photonics and Quantum Materials.

He has supervised numerous projects in collaboration with various scientific Centers in Europe and USA in areas including nanophotonics, nanoplasmonics, optical metamaterials, dynamics of quantum systems, resonance interaction between quantum and classical plasmonic systems, laser physics und optoelectronics, optical waveguides, optical amplifiers, nonlinear optics, fiber optics communication systems, and optics of micro resonators.

His teaching expertise includes lecture and practical courses in the areas of quantum mechanics, photonics, nano-optics, fiber-optic communication systems. Professor Chipouline (Shipulin) is a reviewer of numerous journals, such as Nature Photonics, Nature Communication, Laser Focus Word, Optics Express, JOSA, IOP, ACS, EPL, Photonics and Nanostructures, the New Journal of Physics, Optical Engineering, Photonics and Nanostructures, and SPIE.

Franko Küppers received his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) degree from TU Kaiserslautern, Germany. He worked at Siemens and at Deutsche Telekom where he directed the Optical Networks research group and the Photonic Systems department at the Research and Technology Center in Darmstadt, Germany, until 2002. In 2003, he joined the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson,