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  • 2016 - OSA Fellows Carsten Rockstuhl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany For seminal contributions to the field of theoretical and computational nanophotonics and, in particular, for groundbreaking contributions to the theoretical understanding of metamaterials and for pioneering the field of amorphous nanophotonics.

Overview

Carsten Rockstuhl is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering, physics, and materials science, with a focus on nanoscale photonics and metamaterials.

The main fields of study for Carsten Rockstuhl include:

  • Engineering
  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Materials Science

Within these broader categories, they have contributed extensively to various subfields such as:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering

The research topics frequently addressed in their work cover:

  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
  • Optical Coatings and Gratings

Carsten Rockstuhl has published numerous papers, with representative recent works including:

  • "All-Dielectric Crescent Metasurface Sensor Driven by Bound States in the Continuum," 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Metasurface-based realization of photonic time crystals," 2023, Science Advances
  • "Helicity-Preserving Optical Cavity Modes for Enhanced Sensing of Chiral Molecules," 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces," 2024, Applied Physics Letters
  • "Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Devices with Structural Integrity," 2020, ACS Photonics

Their work often appears in several frequently chosen publication venues, which include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Advanced Optical Materials
  • Physical Review A
  • ACS Photonics
  • Optics Express

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton
  • Dominik Beutel
  • Marjan Krstić
  • Christof Holzer
  • Benedikt Zerulla

Recognition of Carsten Rockstuhl's contributions includes their election as an OSA Fellow in 2016 for contributions in theoretical and computational nanophotonics, particularly in the theoretical understanding of metamaterials and pioneering work in amorphous nanophotonics.

Best Publications

  • A plasmonic photocatalyst consisting of silver nanoparticles embedded in titanium dioxide.

    Koichi Awazu;Makoto Fujimaki;Carsten Rockstuhl;Junji Tominaga

  • Asymmetric transmission of linearly polarized light at optical metamaterials.

    C. Menzel;C. Helgert;C. Rockstuhl;E.-B. Kley

  • Advanced Jones calculus for the classification of periodic metamaterials

    Christoph Menzel;Carsten Rockstuhl;Falk Lederer

  • A perfect absorber made of a graphene micro-ribbon metamaterial.

    Rasoul Alaee;Mohamed Farhat;Carsten Rockstuhl;Falk Lederer

  • Coupling between a dark and a bright eigenmode in a terahertz metamaterial

    Ranjan Singh;Carsten Rockstuhl;Falk Lederer;Weili Zhang

  • Analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency in a terahertz metamaterial

    Sher-Yi Chiam;Ranjan Singh;Carsten Rockstuhl;Falk Lederer

  • Terahertz metamaterial with asymmetric transmission

    R. Singh;E. Plum;C. Menzel;C. Rockstuhl

  • An electromagnetic multipole expansion beyond the long-wavelength approximation

    Rasoul Alaee;Rasoul Alaee;Carsten Rockstuhl;Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton

  • Resonance shifts and spill-out effects in self-consistent hydrodynamic nanoplasmonics

    Giuseppe Toscano;Jakob Straubel;Alexander Kwiatkowski;Carsten Rockstuhl

  • Fabry-Perot Resonances in One-Dimensional Plasmonic Nanostructures

    Jens Dorfmüller;Ralf Vogelgesang;R. Thomas Weitz;Carsten Rockstuhl

  • On the reinterpretation of resonances in split-ring-resonators at normal incidence

    Carsten Rockstuhl;Falk Lederer;Christoph Etrich;Thomas Zentgraf

  • Observing metamaterial induced transparency in individual Fano resonators with broken symmetry

    Ranjan Singh;Ibraheem A. I. Al-Naib;Yuping Yang;Dibakar Roy Chowdhury

  • Retrieving effective parameters for metamaterials at oblique incidence

    Christoph Menzel;Carsten Rockstuhl;Thomas Paul;Falk Lederer

  • Fully integrated quantum photonic circuit with an electrically driven light source

    Svetlana Khasminskaya;Felix Pyatkov;Felix Pyatkov;Karolina Słowik;Karolina Słowik;Simone Ferrari;Simone Ferrari

  • Babinet’s principle for optical frequency metamaterials and nanoantennas

    T. Zentgraf;T. P. Meyrath;A. Seidel;S. Kaiser

  • Direct near-field optical imaging of higher order plasmonic resonances.

    R. Esteban;R. Vogelgesang;J. Dorfmüller;A. Dmitriev

  • Plasmonic Nanowire Antennas: Experiment, Simulation, and Theory

    Jens Dorfmüller;Ralf Vogelgesang;Worawut Khunsin;Carsten Rockstuhl

  • A generalized Kerker condition for highly directive nanoantennas

    R. Alaee;R. Filter;D. Lehr;F. Lederer

  • Absorption enhancement in solar cells by localized plasmon polaritons

    Carsten Rockstuhl;Stephan Fahr;Falk Lederer

  • Resonances of split-ring resonator metamaterials in the near infrared

    Carsten Rockstuhl;T. Zentgraf;H. Guo;N. Liu

Frequent Co-Authors

Falk Lederer
Falk Lederer Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Thomas Pertsch
Thomas Pertsch Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Andreas Tünnermann
Andreas Tünnermann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ralf B. Wehrspohn
Ralf B. Wehrspohn Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Martin Wegener
Martin Wegener Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Isabelle Staude
Isabelle Staude Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Weili Zhang
Weili Zhang Oklahoma State University
Ranjan Singh
Ranjan Singh University of Notre Dame
Ernst-Bernhard Kley
Ernst-Bernhard Kley Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Yuri S. Kivshar
Yuri S. Kivshar Australian National University

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