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  • Dennis Couwenberg ORCID logo EMAIL logo and Federico Capasso ORCID logo
Published/Copyright: December 1, 2020
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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 CapassoDennis Couwenberg
Founding Editor NanophotonicsPublishing Editor Nanophotonics

Corresponding author: Dennis Couwenberg, Science Wise Publishing, Amsterdam, 1073XN, Netherlands, E-mail:

Published Online: 2020-12-01

© 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

  1. Editorial
  2. Editorial
  3. Optoelectronics and Integrated Photonics
  4. Disorder effects in nitride semiconductors: impact on fundamental and device properties
  5. Ultralow threshold blue quantum dot lasers: what’s the true recipe for success?
  6. Waiting for Act 2: what lies beyond organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays for organic electronics?
  7. Waveguide combiners for mixed reality headsets: a nanophotonics design perspective
  8. On-chip broadband nonreciprocal light storage
  9. High-Q nanophotonics: sculpting wavefronts with slow light
  10. Thermoelectric graphene photodetectors with sub-nanosecond response times at terahertz frequencies
  11. High-performance integrated graphene electro-optic modulator at cryogenic temperature
  12. Asymmetric photoelectric effect: Auger-assisted hot hole photocurrents in transition metal dichalcogenides
  13. Seeing the light in energy use
  14. Lasers, Active optical devices and Spectroscopy
  15. A high-repetition rate attosecond light source for time-resolved coincidence spectroscopy
  16. Fast laser speckle suppression with an intracavity diffuser
  17. Active optics with silk
  18. Nanolaser arrays: toward application-driven dense integration
  19. Two-dimensional spectroscopy on a THz quantum cascade structure
  20. Homogeneous quantum cascade lasers operating as terahertz frequency combs over their entire operational regime
  21. Toward new frontiers for terahertz quantum cascade laser frequency combs
  22. Soliton dynamics of ring quantum cascade lasers with injected signal
  23. Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
  24. Propagation stability in optical fibers: role of path memory and angular momentum
  25. Perspective on using multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams for enhanced capacity in free-space optical communication links
  26. Biomedical Photonics
  27. A fiber optic–nanophotonic approach to the detection of antibodies and viral particles of COVID-19
  28. Plasmonic control of drug release efficiency in agarose gel loaded with gold nanoparticle assemblies
  29. Metasurfaces for biomedical applications: imaging and sensing from a nanophotonics perspective
  30. Hyperbolic dispersion metasurfaces for molecular biosensing
  31. Fundamentals of Optics
  32. A Tutorial on the Classical Theories of Electromagnetic Scattering and Diffraction
  33. Reflectionless excitation of arbitrary photonic structures: a general theory
  34. Optimization Methods
  35. Multiobjective and categorical global optimization of photonic structures based on ResNet generative neural networks
  36. Machine learning–assisted global optimization of photonic devices
  37. Artificial neural networks for inverse design of resonant nanophotonic components with oscillatory loss landscapes
  38. Adjoint-optimized nanoscale light extractor for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
  39. Topological Photonics
  40. Non-Hermitian and topological photonics: optics at an exceptional point
  41. Topological photonics: Where do we go from here?
  42. Topological nanophotonics for photoluminescence control
  43. Anomalous Anderson localization behavior in gain-loss balanced non-Hermitian systems
  44. Quantum computing, Quantum Optics, and QED
  45. Quantum computing and simulation
  46. NIST-certified secure key generation via deep learning of physical unclonable functions in silica aerogels
  47. Thomas–Reiche–Kuhn (TRK) sum rule for interacting photons
  48. Macroscopic QED for quantum nanophotonics: emitter-centered modes as a minimal basis for multiemitter problems
  49. Generation and dynamics of entangled fermion–photon–phonon states in nanocavities
  50. Polaritonic Tamm states induced by cavity photons
  51. Recent progress in engineering the Casimir effect – applications to nanophotonics, nanomechanics, and chemistry
  52. Enhancement of rotational vacuum friction by surface photon tunneling
  53. Plasmonics and Polaritonics
  54. Shrinking the surface plasmon
  55. Polariton panorama
  56. Scattering of a single plasmon polariton by multiple atoms for in-plane control of light
  57. A metasurface-based diamond frequency converter using plasmonic nanogap resonators
  58. Selective excitation of individual nanoantennas by pure spectral phase control in the ultrafast coherent regime
  59. Semiconductor quantum plasmons for high frequency thermal emission
  60. Origin of dispersive line shapes in plasmon-enhanced stimulated Raman scattering microscopy
  61. Epitaxial aluminum plasmonics covering full visible spectrum
  62. Metaoptics
  63. Metamaterials with high degrees of freedom: space, time, and more
  64. The road to atomically thin metasurface optics
  65. Active nonlocal metasurfaces
  66. Giant midinfrared nonlinearity based on multiple quantum well polaritonic metasurfaces
  67. Near-field plates and the near zone of metasurfaces
  68. High-efficiency metadevices for bifunctional generations of vectorial optical fields
  69. Printing polarization and phase at the optical diffraction limit: near- and far-field optical encryption
  70. Optical response of jammed rectangular nanostructures
  71. Dynamic phase-change metafilm absorber for strong designer modulation of visible light
  72. Arbitrary polarization conversion for pure vortex generation with a single metasurface
  73. Enhanced harmonic generation in gases using an all-dielectric metasurface
  74. Monolithic metasurface spatial differentiator enabled by asymmetric photonic spin-orbit interactions
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