Extreme Photonics

A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recent developments in nano- and mesoscale photonics, nanotechnology, and materials science have made it possible to tailor light-matter interaction and artificial materials with unusual and often with extreme properties. Such “extreme photonics”, both dielectric and metal, provide unprecedented possibilities and functional properties in optics, physics, and engineering.
We strongly encourage the submission of articles for this Special Issue. Both original research papers and review articles describing state-of-the-art innovations in this research field are welcome. 
This Special Issue will cover a range of topics from the field, including but not limited to the following:

  • Extreme subdiffraction resolution and applications;
  • Extreme light confinement;
  • Single-photon photonics;
  • Extreme optical or THz bandwidths; 
  • Extreme pulse emission;
  • Extreme light-matter interaction; 
  • Materials with extremely low energy velocity or high phase velocity; 
  • Atom-thick-scale thin materials;
  • Deep subwavelength optical or acoustical vortexes; 
  • Extreme anisotropy, giant nonlinearity, etc.

Prof. Dr. Oleg V. Minin
Prof. Dr. Igor V. Minin
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Keywords

  • extreme subdiffraction resolution and applications
  • extreme light confinement
  • single-photon photonics
  • extreme optical or thz bandwidths
  • extreme pulse emission
  • extreme light-matter interaction
  • materials with extremely low energy velocity or high phase velocity
  • atom-thick-scale thin materials
  • deep subwavelength optical or acoustical vortexes
  • extreme anisotropy, giant nonlinearity, etc

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Generation of Photonic Hooks under Point-Source Illumination from Patchy Microcylinders
by Qingqing Shang, Chu Xu, Fen Tang, Jiaji Li, Yao Fan, Caojin Yuan, Zengbo Wang, Chao Zuo and Ran Ye
Photonics 2022, 9(9), 667; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9090667 - 19 Sep 2022
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Photonic hook (PH) is a new type of non-evanescent light beam with subwavelength curved structures. It has shown promising applications in super-resolution imaging and has the potential to be used in micromachining, optical trapping, etc. PHs are generally produced by illuminating mesoscale asymmetric [...] Read more.
Photonic hook (PH) is a new type of non-evanescent light beam with subwavelength curved structures. It has shown promising applications in super-resolution imaging and has the potential to be used in micromachining, optical trapping, etc. PHs are generally produced by illuminating mesoscale asymmetric particles with optical plane waves. In this work, we used the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method to investigate the PH phenomenon under point-source illumination. We found that the PHs can be effectively generated from point-source illuminated patchy particles. By changing the background refractive index, particle diameters and the position and coverage ratio of Ag patches, the characteristics of the PHs can be effectively tuned. Moreover, the structure of the intensity distribution of the light field generated from small and large particles can have an opposite bending direction due to the near-field light-matter interaction. Full article
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Mesotronics: Some New, Unusual Optical Effects
by Igor V. Minin and Oleg V. Minin
Photonics 2022, 9(10), 762; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9100762 - 12 Oct 2022
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The recently emerged field of Mesotronics provides novel opportunities for subwavelength magnetic and electric field localization and giant enhancement by mesoscale dielectric particles and structures from low-index to high-index materials, supported by novel optical phenomena. In this case, two regions: non-resonant and resonant, [...] Read more.
The recently emerged field of Mesotronics provides novel opportunities for subwavelength magnetic and electric field localization and giant enhancement by mesoscale dielectric particles and structures from low-index to high-index materials, supported by novel optical phenomena. In this case, two regions: non-resonant and resonant, can be distinguished. In this short review, which is a direct continuation of our recently published study, we continue to present the authors’ point of view on some new optical effects in dielectric mesotronics. Among them are anomalous apodization effect in phase mesoscale gratings, new effects on high order Fano-resonances and extreme effects in field localization, mesoscale particle-based super-resolution and high-speed communications, photonic hook-based high-contrast subwavelength imaging, and reverse optical energy flow in a perforated resonant spherical particle. Full article
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