META 2025 Quantum Nanophotonics Workshop

Workshop Chair

Ortwin Hess Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

With 2025 marking the International Year of Quantum, this special workshop provides a unique opportunity to celebrate and showcase Quantum Nanophotonics—a rapidly advancing field at the intersection of quantum optics, nanophotonics, and quantum technologies. By leveraging nanoscale light-matter interactions, strong light-matter coupling, and quantum coherence effects, quantum nanophotonics offers transformative solutions for quantum communication, computing, sensing, and metrology.

This workshop will highlight recent breakthroughs, emerging trends, and future challenges in quantum-enhanced photonic devices, plasmonic quantum interfaces, and nanophotonic quantum networks, bringing together leading theorists and experimentalists to discuss cutting-edge developments.

This special workshop will consist of invited talks and contributed presentations covering, but not limited to, the following areas:

1. Strong Light-Matter Interactions at the Nanoscale
   • Cavity-Free Quantum Strong Coupling in Nanoplasmonic Systems
   • Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling in Hybrid Quantum Systems
   • Quantum Optical Nonlinearities in Nanoscale Systems
2. Quantum Emitters & Single-Photon Sources
   • Room-Temperature Quantum Emitters in Plasmonic & Dielectric Nanostructures
   • Deterministic Single-Photon Sources & Quantum Dots in Nanophotonics
   • Engineering Quantum Coherence in Quantum Emitters at the Nanoscale
3. Quantum Nanophotonic Platforms for Quantum Technologies
   • Integrated Quantum Photonic Circuits & Quantum Metasurfaces
   • Hybrid Quantum-Plasmonic Systems for Quantum Information Processing
   • Nanoscale Quantum Sensing & Quantum-Enhanced Metrology
4. Quantum Coherence, Decoherence, & Quantum Noise in Nanophotonics
   • Controlling Quantum Decoherence in Nanophotonic Environments
   • Quantum Fluctuations & Vacuum Forces in Nanophotonic Systems
   • Non-Hermitian & PT-Symmetric Photonics for Quantum Applications
5. Topological & Quantum Metamaterials for Quantum Nanophotonics
   • Quantum Topological Photonics & Edge States in Nanophotonic Systems
   • Quantum Metamaterials for Novel Photonic States
   • Tailoring Light-Matter Interactions with Quantum Photonic Lattices
6. Quantum Nanophotonics for Real-World Applications
   • Quantum Networks & Quantum Secure Communication via Nanophotonics
   • Quantum-Enhanced Imaging & Quantum Microscopy Techniques
   • Towards Scalable Quantum Computing with Nanophotonic Systems

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

1. Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University, USA
2. Robert W. Boyd, University of Ottawa, Canada
3. Howard (Ho Wai) Lee, University of California, Irvine, USA
4. Wu Lin, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
5. Yu-Jung (Yuri) Lu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
6. Mehul Malik, Heriot-Watt University, UK
7. Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University, USA
8. Hamidreza Siampour, Queen's University Belfast, UK
9. Yuanmu Yang, Tsinghua University, China