Dr. Jan Renger

  • Senior Scientist
  • Room: A.3.232
  • Telephone: +49 9131 7133341
  • E-mail

Tailoring the optical properties at the micro- and nanoscale is key to enable new experiments in the field of quantum optics and biophotonics. To this end, I use my strong background in numerical simulations as well as nano- and microfabrication techniques together with the expertise in spectroscopy, linear and nonlinear optics to enable and conduct experiments.

High-resolution Cryogenic Spectroscopy of Single Molecules in Nanoprinted Crystals

Mohammad Musavinezhad, Jan Renger, Johannes Zirkelbach, Tobias Utikal, Claudio U. Hail, Thomas Basché, Dimos Poulikakos, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07474 (2024) Preprint


On-chip interference of scattering from two individual molecules

Dominik Rattenbacher, Alexey Shkarin, Jan Renger, Tobias Utikal, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

Optica 10 1595-1601 (2023) | Journal


Quantum Efficiency of Single Dibenzoterrylene Molecules in p-Dichlorobenzene at Cryogenic Temperatures

Mohammad Musavinezhad, Alexey Shkarin, Dominik Rattenbacher, Jan Renger, Tobias Utikal, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 5353-5359 (2023) | Journal


Nanoscopic charge fluctuations in a gallium phosphide waveguide measured by single molecules

Alexey Shkarin, Dominik Rattenbacher, Jan Renger, Simon Hönl, Tobias Utikal, Paul Seidler, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

Physical Review Letters 126 133602 (2021) | Journal


Nanostructured alkali-metal vapor cells

Tom F. Cutler, William J. Hamlyn, Jan Renger, Kate A. Whittaker, Danielle Pizzey, Ifan G. Hughes, Vahid Sandoghdar, Charles S. Adams

Physical Review Applied 14 034054 (2020) | Journal


suggested by editors

Partial cloaking of a gold particle by a single molecule

Johannes Zirkelbach, Benjamin Gmeiner, Jan Renger, Pierre Türschmann, Tobias Utikal, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

Physical Review Letters 125 103603 (2020) | Journal


suggested by editors

Coherent coupling of single molecules to on-chip ring resonators

Dominik Rattenbacher, Alexey Shkarin, Jan Renger, Tobias Utikal, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

New Journal of Physics 21 062002 (2019) | Journal


Nanoprinting organic molecules at the quantum level

Claudio U. Hail, Christian Höller, Korenobu Matsuzaki, Patrik Rohner, Jan Renger, Vahid Sandoghdar, Dimos Poulikakos, Hadi Eghlidi

Nature Communications 10 1880 (2019) | Journal


Chip-Based All-Optical Control of Single Molecules Coherently Coupled to a Nanoguide

Pierre Tuerschmann, Nir Rotenberg, Jan Renger, Irina Harder, Olga Lohse, Tobias Utikal, Stephan Goetzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

Nano Letters 17 4941-4945 (2017) | Journal


Pushing the Photon Limit: Nanoantennas Increase Maximal Photon Stream and Total Photon Number

Emilie Wientjes, Jan Renger, Richard Cogdell, Niek F. van Hulst

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS 7(9) 1604-1609 (2016) | Journal



  • Two particle enhanced nano Raman microscopy and spectroscopy
    Olk, Phillip; Renger, Jan; Härtling, Thomas; Wenzel, Marc Tobias; Eng, Lukas M
    Nano Letters,7,6,1736-1740,2007,ACS Publications

 

  • Surface-enhanced nonlinear four-wave mixing
    Renger, Jan; Quidant, Romain; Van Hulst, Niek; Novotny, Lukas
    Physical Review Letters,104,4,046803,2010,American Physical Society

 

  • Distance dependent spectral tuning of two coupled metal nanoparticles
    Olk, Phillip; Renger, Jan; Wenzel, Marc Tobias; Eng, Lukas M
    Nano Letters,8,4,1174-1178,2008,ACS Publications

 

  • Evanescent wave scattering and local electric field enhancement at ellipsoidal silver particles in the vicinity of a glass surface
    Renger, Jan; Grafström, Stefan; Eng, Lukas M; Deckert, Volker
    JOSA A,21,7,1362-1367,2004,Optical Society of America

 

  • Hidden progress: broadband plasmonic invisibility
    Renger, Jan; Kadic, Muamer; Dupont, Guillaume; Aćimović, Srdjan S; Guenneau, Sébastien; Quidant, Romain; Enoch, Stefan
    Optics express,18,15,15757-15768,2010,Optical Society of America

 

  • Free-space excitation of propagating surface plasmon polaritons by nonlinear four-wave mixing
    Renger, Jan; Quidant, Romain; Van Hulst, Niek; Palomba, Stefano; Novotny, Lukas
    Physical Review Letters,103,26,266802,2009

 

  • Design and properties of dielectric surface plasmon Bragg mirrors
    Randhawa, Sukanya; González, María Ujué; Renger, Jan; Enoch, Stefan; Quidant, Romain
    Optics Express,18,14,14496-14510,2010,Optical Society of America

 

  • Direct excitation of surface plasmon polaritons in nanopatterned metal surfaces and thin films
    Renger, Jan; Grafström, Stefan; Eng, Lukas M
    Physical Review B,76,4,045431,2007,APS

 

  • Resonant light scattering by near-field-induced phonon polaritons
    Renger, Jan; Grafström, Stefan; Eng, Lukas M; Hillenbrand, Rainer
    Physical Review B,71,7,075410,2005,APS

 

  • Nonlinear dark-field microscopy
    Harutyunyan, Hayk; Palomba, Stefano; Renger, Jan; Quidant, Romain; Novotny, Lukas
    Nano Letters,10,12,5076-5079,2010,American Chemical Society

 

  • Excitation, interaction, and scattering of localized and propagating surface polaritons
    Renger, Jan
    2006,Saechsische Landesbibliothek-Staats-und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden

 

  • Enhanced nonlinear response from metal surfaces
    Renger, Jan; Quidant, Romain; Novotny, Lukas
    Opt. Express,19,3,1777-1785,2011

 

  • Experimental demonstration of dielectric-loaded plasmonic waveguide disk resonators at telecom wavelengths
    Randhawa, Sukanya; Krasavin, Alexey V; Holmgaard, Tobias; Renger, Jan; Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I; Zayats, Anatoly V; Quidant, Romain
    Applied Physics Letters,98,16,161102-161102-3,2011,AIP

 

  • Nonlinear plasmonics at planar metal surfaces,"Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences"
    Palomba, Stefano; Harutyunyan, Hayk; Renger, Jan; Quidant, Romain; van Hulst, Niek F; Novotny, Lukas
    369,1950,3497-3509,2011,The Royal Society

 

  • Performance of electro-optical plasmonic ring resonators at telecom wavelengths
    Randhawa, Sukanya; Lachèze, Sébastien; Renger, Jan; Bouhelier, Alexandre; de Lamaestre, Roch Espiau; Dereux, Alain; Quidant, Romain
    Optics Express,20,3,2354-2362,2012,Optical Society of America

 

  • Extending Conventional Scatterometry Using Generalized Ellipsometry
    Reinig, Peter; Geiler, Thomas; Mört, Manfred; Hingst, Thomas; Bloeß, Harald; Renger, Jan; Eng, Lukas M; Seiler, David G; Diebold, Alain C; McDonald, Robert
    AIP Conference Proceedings,931,1,89-93,2007,AIP

 

  • Optically-programmable nonlinear photonic component for dielectric-loaded plasmonic circuitry
    Krasavin, Alexey V; Randhawa, Sukanya; Bouillard, Jean-Sebastien; Renger, Jan; Quidant, Romain; Zayats, Anatoly V
    Optics Express,19,25,25222-25229,2011,Optical Society of America

 

  • Dielectric surface plasmon Bragg mirrors: theory, design, and properties
    Randhawa, Sukanya; González, María Ujué; Renger, Jan; Weeber, Jean-Claude; Quidant, Romain
    Photonics Europe, 69880U-69880U-10,2008,International Society for Optics and Photonic

 

  • Deep-subwavelength imaging of the modal dispersion of light
    Sapienza, R; Coenen, T; Renger, J; Kuttge, M; van Hulst, NF; Polman, A
    Nature Materials,11,9,781-787,2012,Nature Publishing Group

 

  • Fiber-Coupled Surface Plasmon Polariton Excitation in Imprinted Dielectric-Loaded Waveguides
    Seidel, Andreas; Gosciniak, Jacek; Gonzalez, Maria U; Renger, Jan; Reinhardt, Carsten; Kiyan, Roman; Quidant, Romain; Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I; Chichkov, Boris N
    International Journal of Optics,2010, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

 

  • Extraordinary All-Dielectric Light Enhancement over Large Volumes
    Sainidou, Rebecca; Renger, Jan; Teperik, Tatiana V; González, María U; Quidant, Romain; García de Abajo, F Javier
    Nano Letters,10,11,4450-4455,2010,American Chemical Society

 

  • Transformation plasmonics
    Kadic, Muamer; Guenneau, Sébastien; Enoch, Stefan; Huidobro, Paloma A; Martín-Moreno, Luis; García-Vidal, Francisco J; Renger, Jan; Quidant, Romain
    Nanophotonics,1,1,51-64,2012

 

  • All-optical and electro-optical active plasmonic telecom components,Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications
    Randhawa, Sukanya; Renger, Jan; Krasavin, Alexey; Zayats, Anatoly; Sebastien, Lacheze; Bouhelier, Alex; Quidant, Romain
    NTuA2,2011,Optical Society of America

 

  • Three-dimensional optical manipulation of a single electron spin
    Geiselmann, Michael; Juan, Mathieu L; Renger, Jan; Say, Jana M; Brown, Louise J; De Abajo, F Javier García; Koppens, Frank; Quidant, Romain
    Nature nanotechnology,8,3,175-179,2013,Nature Publishing Group

 

  • Three-dimensional manipulation with scanning near-field optical nanotweezers
    Berthelot, J; Aćimović, SS; Juan, ML; Kreuzer, MP; Renger, J; Quidant, R
    Nature nanotechnology,9,4,295-299,2014,Nature Publishing Group

 

  • Deterministic Optical-Near-Field-Assisted Positioning of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers
    Geiselmann, Michael; Marty, Renaud; Renger, Jan; García de Abajo, F Javier; Quidant, Romain
    Nano Letters,14,3,1520-1525,2014,American Chemical Society

 

  • LSPR chip for parallel, rapid, and sensitive detection of cancer markers in serum
    Aćimović, Srdjan S; Ortega, Maria A; Sanz, Vanesa; Berthelot, Johann; Garcia-Cordero, Jose L; Renger, Jan; Maerkl, Sebastian J; Kreuzer, Mark P; Quidant, Romain
    Nano Letters,14,5,2636-2641,2014,American Chemical Society

 

  • Capturing the optical phase response of nanoantennas by coherent second-harmonic microscopy
    Accanto, Nicolò; Piatkowski, Lukasz; Renger, Jan; van Hulst, Niek F
    Nano Letters,14,7,4078-4082,2014,American Chemical Society

 

  • Strong antenna-enhanced fluorescence of a single light-harvesting complex shows photon antibunching
    Wientjes, Emilie; Renger, Jan; Curto, Alberto G; Cogdell, Richard; van Hulst, Niek F
    Nature Communications,5, 2014, Nature Publishing Group

 

  • Nanoantenna enhanced emission of light-harvesting complex 2: the role of resonance, polarization, and radiative and non-radiative rates
    Wientjes, Emilie; Renger, Jan; Curto, Alberto G; Cogdell, Richard; van Hulst, Niek F
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics,16,45,24739-24746,2014,Royal Society of Chemistry

 

  • Percolating plasmonic networks for light emission control
    Gaio, Michele; Castro-Lopez, Marta; Renger, Jan; van Hulst, Niek; Sapienza, Riccardo
    Faraday discussions,178,,237-252,2015,Royal Society of Chemistry

 

  • Plasmon-coupled tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy
    Bouhelier, A.; Renger, J.; Beversluis, M.R.; Novotny, L.
    J. Microsc.,210,,220-224,2003

 

  • Polymer-metal waveguides characterization by fourier plane leakage radiation microscopy
    Massenot, S.; Grandidier, J.; Bouhelier, A.; de Francs, G. Colas; Markey, L.; Weeber, J.-C.; Dereux, A.; Renger, J.; González, M.U.; Quidant, R.
    Appl. Phys. Lett.,91,,243102,2007

 

  • Dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides: Figures of merit and mode characterization by image and Fourier plane leakage microscopy
    Grandidier, J.; Massenot, S.; de Francs, G. Colas; Bouhelier, A.; Weeber, J.-C.; Markey, L.; Dereux, A.; Renger, J.; González, M.U.; Quidant, R.
    Phys. Rev. B,78,,245419,2008

 

  • Active Control of Surface Plasmon Waveguides with a Phase Change Material
    Rudé, Miquel; Simpson, Robert E; Quidant, Romain; Pruneri, Valerio; Renger, Jan
    ACS Photonics,2,6,669-674,2015,American Chemical Society

 

  • Resonant plasmonic nanoparticles for multicolor second harmonic imaging
    Accanto, Nicolò; Piatkowski, Lukasz; Hancu, Ion M; Renger, Jan; van Hulst, Niek F
    Applied Physics Letters,108,8,083115,2016,AIP Publishing

 

  • Pushing the Photon Limit: Nanoantennas Increase Maximal Photon Stream and Total Photon Number
    Wientjes, Emilie; Renger, Jan; Cogdell, Richard; van Hulst, Niek F
    The journal of physical chemistry letters,7,9,1604-1609,2016,American Chemical Society

 

  • STED properties of Ce 3+, Tb 3+, and Eu 3+ doped inorganic scintillators
    Alekhin, MS; Renger, J; Kasperczyk, M; Douissard, P-A; Martin, T; Zorenko, Y; Vasil’ev, DA; Stiefel, M; Novotny, L; Stampanoni, M
    Optics Express,25,2,1251-1261,2017,Optical Society of America

 

  • Nanoscale nondestructive electric field probing in ferroelectrics, organic molecular films and near-field optical nanodevices","Testing, Reliability, and Application of Micro-and Nano-Material Systems II
    Eng, Lukas M; Grafstrom, Stefan; Hellmann, Ingo; Loppacher, Christian; Otto, Tobias; Renger, Jan; Schlaphof, Frank; Seidel, Jan; Zerweck, Ulrich
    5392,,21-35,2004,International Society for Optics and Photonics

 

  • Near-and farfield scattering properties of metal nanoparticles excited by radially polarized light
    Olk, Phillip; Haertling, T; Renger, J; Grafstroem, S; Eng, LM; Gorzolnik, B; Ott, M; Moeller, M
    2006

 

  • Surface physics, nanoscale physics, low-dimensional systems-Direct excitation of surface plasmon polaritons in nanopatterned metal surfaces and thin films
    Renger, Jan; Grafstrom, Stefan; Eng, Lukas M
    Physical Review-Section B-Condensed Matter,76,4,45431-45431,2007,"Woodbury, NY: published by the American Physical Society through the …"

 

  • Excitation of surface plasmon polaritons at surface grooves in bulk metals and thin film metal waveguides
    Renger, J; Grafstroem, S; Seidel, J; Olk, P; Eng, LM; Akhmadaliev, C; Bischoff, L; Schmidt, B; Taverna, D; Weeber, JC
    2006

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