Nonlinear Photonic Crystals: Advances in Fabrication and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Nonlinear photonic crystals are transparent materials having a space-dependent (often periodic) second-order nonlinear optical response. This nonlinear modulation offers a controllable way to synchronize relative phases among optical waves at different frequencies, an essential condition for obtaining efficient nonlinear optical interactions. The nonlinear photonic crystals have been extremely used for nonlinear optics study and in applications that require new light sources, including the nonlinear generation quantum-entangled photons and their control. The importance of nonlinear photonic crystals has also inspired extensive research in ferroelectrics, particularly in ferroelectric domain engineering at the micron or sub-micron scale.

We invite researchers to contribute to this Special Issue on Nonlinear Photonic Crystals: Advances in Fabrication and Applications, which is intended to serve as a multidisciplinary forum covering broad aspects of science and technology related to the fabrication, characterization, fundamental study, and applications of nonlinear photonic crystals.

The potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Ferroelectric domain engineering;
• Ferroelectric domain wall motion, control, and domain-wall-based effects and devices;
• Characterization of ferroelectric domain structures;
• Advanced structure design of nonlinear photonic crystal;
• Nonlinear wavefront shaping;
• Entangled photons generation and control.

Dr. Yan Sheng
Prof. Katia Gallo
Guest Editors

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