The nano-optics group at the University of Rochester led by Dr. Lukas Novotny

The spectroscopy group led by Dr. Bruno Pettinger (The group's former director, Prof. Gerhard Ertl, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry 2007 for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces) 

Dr. Achim Hartschuh's group at the University of München

The nanophotonics laboratory led by Dr. Satoshi Kawata (author of the book “Near-Field Optics and Surface Plasmon Polaritons”)

Dr. Satoshi Kawata's cyber lab

The nano-optics group at the Max-Planck-Institute for solid state research

Dr. ZeXiang Shen's group at the Nanyang Technological University

Dr. Park's group at the University of Colorado, Boulder