Welcome to the Theoretical Electrical Engineering group (TET)
Our main research interest is the theoretical description of photonic and optoelectronic systems like optical nanoantennas, dielectric waveguides, photonic crystals, metamaterials, plasmonic systems, or biological photonic structures. Our speciality is the combinations of advanced material models with state-of-the-art numerical methods for the simulation of electromagnetic fields. For students we offer a wide range of courses ranging from the theoretical foundation of electromagnetism and numerics to advanced courses on field simulation and photonics.
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The five most recent publications
On‐Demand Indistinguishable and Entangled Photons Using Tailored Cavity Designs
D. Bauch, D. Siebert, K. Jöns, J. Förstner, S. Schumacher, Advanced Quantum Technologies (2023).
Efficient Modeling and Tailoring of Nonlinear Wavefronts in Dielectric Metasurfaces
D. Hähnel, J. Förstner, V. Myroshnychenko, ACS Photonics (2023).
A multi-mode super-fano mechanism for enhanced third harmonic generation in silicon metasurfaces
D. Hähnel, C. Golla, M. Albert, T. Zentgraf, V. Myroshnychenko, J. Förstner, C. Meier, Light: Science & Applications 12 (2023) 97.
On-demand indistinguishable and entangled photons at telecom frequencies using tailored cavity designs
D. Bauch, D. Siebert, K. Jöns, J. Förstner, S. Schumacher, (2023).
How to suppress radiative losses in high-contrast integrated Bragg gratings
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M. Hammer, H. Farheen, J. Förstner, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 40 (2023) 862.