The latest trends in nanophotonics

Recent explosive growth in nanophotonics, ignited by the rapidly developing nanotechnologies, has demonstrated that light exhibits extraordinary light – matter interactions with subwavelength-scale structures. Such exotic light behaviors not only manifest the importance of searching for unprecedented optics but also suggest the possibility of real-world applications in the visible range. Indeed, recent progress in nanophotonics has revealed that nanophotonic-based devices and applications can be powerful candidates for replacing the conventional bulky optical components in a compact manner. The International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals, and Plasmonics (META) is an annual conference for nanophotonics research. It especially covers a variety of research in metamaterials, photonic crystals, plasmonics, and nanophotonic devices and applications. The latest conference, META ’ 21, was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic (July 20 – 23, 2021), where the latest developments in nanophotonics, metamaterials, and related topics were livestreamed across the world. This special issue “ The latest trends in nanophotonics ” introduces a collection of invited and selected research and review articles from the conference.

[1]  M. Ciappina,et al.  Recent advances in ultrafast plasmonics: from strong field physics to ultraprecision spectroscopy , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[2]  Sudip Gurung,et al.  Polarization-dependent photonic crystal fiber optical filters enabled by asymmetric metasurfaces , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[3]  J. Rho,et al.  Facile fabrication of stretchable photonic Ag nanostructures by soft-contact patterning of ionic Ag solution coatings , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[4]  M. Jarrahi,et al.  Ultrafast carrier dynamics in terahertz photoconductors and photomixers: beyond short-carrier-lifetime semiconductors , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[5]  Z. Wong,et al.  High-performance optical beam steering with nanophotonics , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[6]  T. Cui,et al.  A generalized method for calculating plasmoelectric potential in non-Mie-resonant plasmonic systems , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[7]  Sejeong Kim,et al.  Nanowires for 2D material-based photonic and optoelectronic devices , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[8]  J. Qin,et al.  Nanophotonic devices based on magneto-optical materials: recent developments and applications , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[9]  K. Ha,et al.  Two-dimensional beam steering with tunable metasurface in infrared regime , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[10]  J. Rho,et al.  Generalized analytic formula for spin Hall effect of light: shift enhancement and interface independence , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[11]  Zongfu Yu,et al.  Computational spectrometers enabled by nanophotonics and deep learning , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[12]  Seungwoo Lee,et al.  Block copolymer gyroids for nanophotonics: significance of lattice transformations , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[13]  S. Oh,et al.  Nodal lines in momentum space: topological invariants and recent realizations in photonic and other systems , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[14]  Hyochul Kim,et al.  Compact meta-spectral image sensor for mobile applications , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[15]  K. Sakai,et al.  Plasmonic nanostructures for shrinking structured light to access forbidden transitions , 2022, Nanophotonics.

[16]  H. M. Baghramyan,et al.  Fluorescence quenching in plasmonic dimers due to electron tunneling , 2021, Nanophotonics.

[17]  Sergey G. Menabde,et al.  Image polaritons in van der Waals crystals , 2021, Nanophotonics.

[18]  A. Fratalocchi,et al.  Advancing statistical learning and artificial intelligence in nanophotonics inverse design , 2021, Nanophotonics.

[19]  P. Wu,et al.  Photoluminescence enhancement with all-dielectric coherent metasurfaces , 2021, Nanophotonics.

[20]  Haomin Chen,et al.  Mechanoresponsive scatterers for high-contrast optical modulation , 2021, Nanophotonics.

[21]  Seungkyung Park,et al.  Hearing the shape of a drum for light: isospectrality in photonics , 2021, Nanophotonics.

[22]  T. Yano,et al.  Nanostructure-enhanced infrared spectroscopy , 2021, Nanophotonics.