Dear Colleagues,

Nanomaterials, with a least one dimension below 100 nm, are widely used in various fields, such as optoelectronics, sensors, biomedicine, and ultrafast photonics, due to their remarkable optical and electrical properties. Light–matter interaction such as light absorption, and the transmission, reflection and scattering of matters is the basis of fundamental research and devices for applications. Due to the light–matter interactions, laser spectroscopy can be used to study physical properties of matter. Photonic devices are also based on the manipulation of light–matter interactions. In recent decades, nanomaterials such as 2D materials have been used in nonlinear and ultrafast optics, which have made significant contributions to various optical devices with excellent performance, such as ultrafast lasers, low-dispersion mirrors, optical fibers, optical component (SESAMs, optical modulators, ultrashort light pulses). Two-dimensional layered materials and 2D perovskite materials have also been used for optoelectronic devices such as photodetectors, photovoltaics, LED and lasers. Nanostructured materials, including metasurface, metamaterials and single nanostructures, have been designed to manipulate optical spectra and beam steering. Light–nanomaterial interaction, therefore, has a broad range of applications in various areas.

The Special Issue aims to present the recent advances in light–nanomaterial interactions for fundamental research and applications. The topics include the linear/nonlinear optical properties of nanomaterials studied by laser spectroscopy, and the design of nanostructures for altering optical properties. All interested authors are welcomed to submit their newest research results for possible publication in this Special Issue.

Dr. Kung-Hsuan Lin
Guest Editor

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• 2D materials
• 2D perovskite
• nanomaterials
• nonlinear optics
• ultrafast spectroscopy
• metamaterial, metasurface
• plasmonics
• Mie resonance