Novel Advances in Optical Micro- and Nano-Cavities

Dear Colleagues,

Optical cavities are important key elements of nanophotonic technologies because of their versatile functionalities. Recently, based on the cutting-edge fabrication technologies, various optical micro- and nano-cavities have been realized in photonic crystals, plasmonic structures, whispering-gallery mode cavities, metal cladding cavities, metamaterials, etc. In particular, the strong light confinement of the optical micro- and nano-cavities in the wavelength/sub-wavelength region provides unprecedented abilities in light controls, strong light-matter interactions, nonlinear interaction, modification of spontaneous emissions, directionality of emitted light.

This Special Issue provides an overview of recent advances from the fundamental theory, novel designs to applications of optical micro- and nano-cavities, including nano/low-threshold lasers, optical modulators/optical switches, single photon sources, light-matter interactions, spontaneous emission controls.

Prof. Soon-Hong Kwon
Prof. Jin-Kyu Yang
Guest Editors

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