NFO-12 will provide a well focused conference on near-field optics and related topics, including:

Advances in instrumentation
Applications in biology, chemistry, solid-state physics and material sciences
Building blocks for nanophotonic devices
Cavity nano-optics including photonic and plasmonic crystals
Industrial applications
Infared and Terahetz nanophotonics
Light-matter interactions at the nanoscale
Nanophotonic circuits and designs
Nanophotonics
Nanoscale optical imaging
Near-field enhancement phenomena (SERS, fluorescence, CARS, SIERA)
Nonlinear and ultrafast phenomena
Novel concepts and phenomena in near-field optics
Miscellaneous
Optical metamaterials
Optical signal processing at the nanoscale
Plasmonics
Quantum optics in the near-field
Nano-Spectroscopy
Theory and modelling