Metamaterials for Advanced Photonic Devices
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2021) | Viewed by 443
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanophotonics; metamaterials; epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metasurfaces; plasmonic and photonic devices; ultrafast dynamics; quantum nanophotonics; rolled-up metamaterials
Interests: nanophotonics; optical metamaterials; exciton–plasmon coupling; all-dielectric metamaterials; optical super-resolution; epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metasurfaces; ultrafast optics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue entitled “Metamaterials for Advanced Photonic and Plasmonic Applications”. Optical metamaterials composed of artificial sub-wavelength structures with intriguing electromagnetic properties have emerged as a new frontier of science and technology in the last two decades. This rapidly expanding research field involves researchers from interdisciplinary fields such as physics, chemistry, engineering, and photonics to realize novel metasurfaces with exotic and customized optical properties. Metamaterials offer several applications, such as perfect lens, negative refraction, lasing, biosensing, light sources, invisibility cloaking, and control of spontaneous emission enhancement. In recent years, new types of metamaterials such as epsilon-near-zero metamaterials, all-dielectric metamaterials, and nonlinear optical metasurfaces have shown potential to design novel photonic devices. Beam shaping, control of emission, absorption, and far-field thermal emission with metasurfaces, ultrafast switching, and performing mathematical operations are some keynote applications of this extremely exciting research field. We believe that metamaterial-based devices will define the next-generation technologies of our time in the coming years. Ultrathin, flat, and compact metasurfaces enable new cutting-edge applications which promise significant reduction in size, weight, manufacturing costs, and power consumption and can revolutionize various fields, such as high-speed fiber-based optical communications, autonomous vehicle industry, lab-on-chip biosensors, light detection and ranging (LIDAR) systems, and advanced components for 6G networks. For example, metalens-integrated microscope systems offer an improved field of view and high resolution and polarization functionalities in comparison to conventional optical microscopes.
This Special Issue will focus on recent advancements in potential topics such as, but not limited to, on-chip beam structuring devices, metasurface-based holography, color images, phase and wavefront control, all-dielectric metamaterials for optoelectronic devices, epsilon-near-zero metasurfaces, nonlinear metasurfaces for ultrafast switching, nano-lasing, and super-resolution.
Prof. Dr. Humeyra Caglayan
Dr. Rakesh Dhama
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metasurface-integrated devices
- ultrafast dynamics
- hyperbolic metamaterials
- all-dielectric metamaterials
- epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) metasurfaces
- nonlinear optical metasurfaces
- exciton–plasmon coupling
- optical super-resolution
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