Advances in Photonic Crystals and Devices
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2023) | Viewed by 3792
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photonic crystals; photonic crystal devices; nanotechnology; optics physics; theoretical models
Interests: photonic crystals; metamaterials; plasmonics; low-dimensional materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The field of photonic crystals (PhCs) based on artificial nanostructures is a booming area of optics that has attracted much attention from experimental and theoretical chemists and physicists since its discovery in 1987 by John and Yablonovitch. In recent decades, the exciting physical and chemical phenomena of PhCs have been widely predicted and researched. More reliable and precise PhC devices are continuously being proposed because of new developments in advanced nanofabrication technology. Extensive applications based on PhCs have emerged, including PhC fibers, white light sources, tunable filters, PhC quantum dot lasers, and PhC quantum cascade lasers. However, most of the PhC devices have optical properties which cannot be actively tuned. Are there other cases for tunable photonic crystal devices? For instance, can we tune the optical properties of PhC devices through applied mechanical force, or through an external field? Answering these questions will help PhC devices meet the requirements of society. The present Special Issue on “Active Photonic Crystals and Devices” may become a timely report, summarizing the current progress in the field of tunable PhC devices achieved in recent years.
Dr. Xiaolong Zhu
Dr. Weihua Wang
Prof. Dr. Dezhuan Han
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photonic crystals
- photonic band structure
- photonic crystal devices
- high-quality factor
- nonlinear optics
- optical properties
- transport properties
- theoretical models
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