Optical Nanoantennas
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 6020
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Interests: extreme scattering engineering; nanoantennas; advanced optoelectronic devices; optics of 2D TMDC; valleytronics; low-loss high-index dielectric nanostructures; novel coherent effects in photonics
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Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue invites manuscripts on the current state-of-the-art in optical nanoantennas.
The widespread use of light in modern technologies is difficult because of mismatch in the wavelength of freely propagating light and the typical size of its sources, e.g., molecules, quantum dots. This situation is similar to that we have in radio physics, where the antennas are used as an interface between radio waves in air and guiding modes waveguides. Owing to recent achievements in nanotechnology, the similar concept of optical nanoantennas has been recently invented in order to make light-matter interaction effects stronger. Nowadays, optical nanoantennas are a subject of considerable theoretical and experimental interest. Because of their advantages, nanoantennas are broadly used in many applications, including biosensing, near-field microscopy, light harvesting, quantum and nonlinear optics, and medicine.
We will consider theoretical, numerical, and experimental papers that cover, but are not limited to, these topics:
- Advances in plasmonic nanoantennas
- Novel all-dielectric and hybrid nanoantennas
- Nanoantenna assisted PL emission enhancement and Purcell effect
- Strong coupling of excitons with a single nanoantenna
- Nanoantenna enhanced optical nonlinearity
Prof. Dr. Alex Krasnok
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Photonics
- Plasmonic nanoantenna
- Dielectric nanoantenna
- Purcell effect
- Strong coupling
- Excitonic resonances
- High harmonic generation
- 2D transition metal dichalcogenides
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