The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global humanitarian crisis.
To support the people who are hit hardest by this pandemic, we organized a benefit by inviting leading scientists in the field of optics and photonics to contribute to this special issue. With the support of the publisher of Nanophotonics, DeGruyter, we are able to donate all the proceeds from the publication fee of the 60+ articles to charity supporting the fight and victims of COVID-19.
We have collected a total of Euro 136.800 that will be donated to charities that support the first-aid workers and people in need of medical help around the world.
With gratitude we like to thank all the scientists who have contributed to this special issue on such short notice and the publisher for being so generous to donate the publication fees.
This issue titled Frontiers in Optics and Photonics holds a collection of research, review, and opinionated articles in many exciting and rapidly developing areas of optics and photonics, a discipline that continues to enable fundamental advances and new technology touching an ever-increasing number of fields and disciplines.
We hope that in addition to supporting this humanitarian disaster, this issue also demonstrates how science unites us all and how interconnected we truly are.
| Federico Capasso | Dennis Couwenberg |
| Founding Editor Nanophotonics | Publishing Editor Nanophotonics |
© 2020 Dennis Couwenberg and Federico Capasso, published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Optoelectronics and Integrated Photonics
- Disorder effects in nitride semiconductors: impact on fundamental and device properties
- Ultralow threshold blue quantum dot lasers: what’s the true recipe for success?
- Waiting for Act 2: what lies beyond organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for organic electronics?
- Waveguide combiners for mixed reality headsets: a nanophotonics design perspective
- On-chip broadband nonreciprocal light storage
- High-Q nanophotonics: sculpting wavefronts with slow light
- Thermoelectric graphene photodetectors with sub-nanosecond response times at terahertz frequencies
- High-performance integrated graphene electro-optic modulator at cryogenic temperature
- Asymmetric photoelectric effect: Auger-assisted hot hole photocurrents in transition metal dichalcogenides
- Seeing the light in energy use
- Lasers, Active optical devices and Spectroscopy
- A high-repetition rate attosecond light source for time-resolved coincidence spectroscopy
- Fast laser speckle suppression with an intracavity diffuser
- Active optics with silk
- Nanolaser arrays: toward application-driven dense integration
- Two-dimensional spectroscopy on a THz quantum cascade structure
- Homogeneous quantum cascade lasers operating as terahertz frequency combs over their entire operational regime
- Toward new frontiers for terahertz quantum cascade laser frequency combs
- Soliton dynamics of ring quantum cascade lasers with injected signal
- Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
- Propagation stability in optical fibers: role of path memory and angular momentum
- Perspective on using multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams for enhanced capacity in free-space optical communication links
- Biomedical Photonics
- A fiber optic–nanophotonic approach to the detection of antibodies and viral particles of COVID-19
- Plasmonic control of drug release efficiency in agarose gel loaded with gold nanoparticle assemblies
- Metasurfaces for biomedical applications: imaging and sensing from a nanophotonics perspective
- Hyperbolic dispersion metasurfaces for molecular biosensing
- Fundamentals of Optics
- A Tutorial on the Classical Theories of Electromagnetic Scattering and Diffraction
- Reflectionless excitation of arbitrary photonic structures: a general theory
- Optimization Methods
- Multiobjective and categorical global optimization of photonic structures based on ResNet generative neural networks
- Machine learning–assisted global optimization of photonic devices
- Artificial neural networks for inverse design of resonant nanophotonic components with oscillatory loss landscapes
- Adjoint-optimized nanoscale light extractor for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
- Topological Photonics
- Non-Hermitian and topological photonics: optics at an exceptional point
- Topological photonics: Where do we go from here?
- Topological nanophotonics for photoluminescence control
- Anomalous Anderson localization behavior in gain-loss balanced non-Hermitian systems
- Quantum computing, Quantum Optics, and QED
- Quantum computing and simulation
- NIST-certified secure key generation via deep learning of physical unclonable functions in silica aerogels
- Thomas–Reiche–Kuhn (TRK) sum rule for interacting photons
- Macroscopic QED for quantum nanophotonics: emitter-centered modes as a minimal basis for multiemitter problems
- Generation and dynamics of entangled fermion–photon–phonon states in nanocavities
- Polaritonic Tamm states induced by cavity photons
- Recent progress in engineering the Casimir effect – applications to nanophotonics, nanomechanics, and chemistry
- Enhancement of rotational vacuum friction by surface photon tunneling
- Plasmonics and Polaritonics
- Shrinking the surface plasmon
- Polariton panorama
- Scattering of a single plasmon polariton by multiple atoms for in-plane control of light
- A metasurface-based diamond frequency converter using plasmonic nanogap resonators
- Selective excitation of individual nanoantennas by pure spectral phase control in the ultrafast coherent regime
- Semiconductor quantum plasmons for high frequency thermal emission
- Origin of dispersive line shapes in plasmon-enhanced stimulated Raman scattering microscopy
- Epitaxial aluminum plasmonics covering full visible spectrum
- Metaoptics
- Metamaterials with high degrees of freedom: space, time, and more
- The road to atomically thin metasurface optics
- Active nonlocal metasurfaces
- Giant midinfrared nonlinearity based on multiple quantum well polaritonic metasurfaces
- Near-field plates and the near zone of metasurfaces
- High-efficiency metadevices for bifunctional generations of vectorial optical fields
- Printing polarization and phase at the optical diffraction limit: near- and far-field optical encryption
- Optical response of jammed rectangular nanostructures
- Dynamic phase-change metafilm absorber for strong designer modulation of visible light
- Arbitrary polarization conversion for pure vortex generation with a single metasurface
- Enhanced harmonic generation in gases using an all-dielectric metasurface
- Monolithic metasurface spatial differentiator enabled by asymmetric photonic spin-orbit interactions
Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Optoelectronics and Integrated Photonics
- Disorder effects in nitride semiconductors: impact on fundamental and device properties
- Ultralow threshold blue quantum dot lasers: what’s the true recipe for success?
- Waiting for Act 2: what lies beyond organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for organic electronics?
- Waveguide combiners for mixed reality headsets: a nanophotonics design perspective
- On-chip broadband nonreciprocal light storage
- High-Q nanophotonics: sculpting wavefronts with slow light
- Thermoelectric graphene photodetectors with sub-nanosecond response times at terahertz frequencies
- High-performance integrated graphene electro-optic modulator at cryogenic temperature
- Asymmetric photoelectric effect: Auger-assisted hot hole photocurrents in transition metal dichalcogenides
- Seeing the light in energy use
- Lasers, Active optical devices and Spectroscopy
- A high-repetition rate attosecond light source for time-resolved coincidence spectroscopy
- Fast laser speckle suppression with an intracavity diffuser
- Active optics with silk
- Nanolaser arrays: toward application-driven dense integration
- Two-dimensional spectroscopy on a THz quantum cascade structure
- Homogeneous quantum cascade lasers operating as terahertz frequency combs over their entire operational regime
- Toward new frontiers for terahertz quantum cascade laser frequency combs
- Soliton dynamics of ring quantum cascade lasers with injected signal
- Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
- Propagation stability in optical fibers: role of path memory and angular momentum
- Perspective on using multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams for enhanced capacity in free-space optical communication links
- Biomedical Photonics
- A fiber optic–nanophotonic approach to the detection of antibodies and viral particles of COVID-19
- Plasmonic control of drug release efficiency in agarose gel loaded with gold nanoparticle assemblies
- Metasurfaces for biomedical applications: imaging and sensing from a nanophotonics perspective
- Hyperbolic dispersion metasurfaces for molecular biosensing
- Fundamentals of Optics
- A Tutorial on the Classical Theories of Electromagnetic Scattering and Diffraction
- Reflectionless excitation of arbitrary photonic structures: a general theory
- Optimization Methods
- Multiobjective and categorical global optimization of photonic structures based on ResNet generative neural networks
- Machine learning–assisted global optimization of photonic devices
- Artificial neural networks for inverse design of resonant nanophotonic components with oscillatory loss landscapes
- Adjoint-optimized nanoscale light extractor for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
- Topological Photonics
- Non-Hermitian and topological photonics: optics at an exceptional point
- Topological photonics: Where do we go from here?
- Topological nanophotonics for photoluminescence control
- Anomalous Anderson localization behavior in gain-loss balanced non-Hermitian systems
- Quantum computing, Quantum Optics, and QED
- Quantum computing and simulation
- NIST-certified secure key generation via deep learning of physical unclonable functions in silica aerogels
- Thomas–Reiche–Kuhn (TRK) sum rule for interacting photons
- Macroscopic QED for quantum nanophotonics: emitter-centered modes as a minimal basis for multiemitter problems
- Generation and dynamics of entangled fermion–photon–phonon states in nanocavities
- Polaritonic Tamm states induced by cavity photons
- Recent progress in engineering the Casimir effect – applications to nanophotonics, nanomechanics, and chemistry
- Enhancement of rotational vacuum friction by surface photon tunneling
- Plasmonics and Polaritonics
- Shrinking the surface plasmon
- Polariton panorama
- Scattering of a single plasmon polariton by multiple atoms for in-plane control of light
- A metasurface-based diamond frequency converter using plasmonic nanogap resonators
- Selective excitation of individual nanoantennas by pure spectral phase control in the ultrafast coherent regime
- Semiconductor quantum plasmons for high frequency thermal emission
- Origin of dispersive line shapes in plasmon-enhanced stimulated Raman scattering microscopy
- Epitaxial aluminum plasmonics covering full visible spectrum
- Metaoptics
- Metamaterials with high degrees of freedom: space, time, and more
- The road to atomically thin metasurface optics
- Active nonlocal metasurfaces
- Giant midinfrared nonlinearity based on multiple quantum well polaritonic metasurfaces
- Near-field plates and the near zone of metasurfaces
- High-efficiency metadevices for bifunctional generations of vectorial optical fields
- Printing polarization and phase at the optical diffraction limit: near- and far-field optical encryption
- Optical response of jammed rectangular nanostructures
- Dynamic phase-change metafilm absorber for strong designer modulation of visible light
- Arbitrary polarization conversion for pure vortex generation with a single metasurface
- Enhanced harmonic generation in gases using an all-dielectric metasurface
- Monolithic metasurface spatial differentiator enabled by asymmetric photonic spin-orbit interactions