Nonlinear Optics of Nanostructures and Metasurfaces

Dear Colleagues,

Nonlinear optics is a long-growing field that studies the nonlinear effect between the electric field of light and matter. Long before lasers were invented, some nonlinear phenomena had been discovered. Early studies focused on birefringent inorganic solids, which exhibit different refractive indexes among different axes to fulfill the phase-matching condition. Using these crystals to develop nonlinear optics applications suffers from several drawbacks, such as being bulky and heavy. The development of metasurfaces has been primarily driven by their fascinating characteristics, such as being ultra-thin, lightweight, and capable of CMOS semiconductor processes. Metasurfaces are composed of sub-wavelength meta-atoms and allow for the production of structured light or the development of nonlinear optics applications.

This Special Issue offers researchers devoted to the topics of nonlinear optics of nanostructures and metasurfaces the opportunity to publish state-of-the-art findings around the world. We aim to broaden the applications of nanostructures and metasurfaces in the realm of nonlinear optics.

We invite research articles related to, but not limited to, the following topics:

1. Nonlinear metasurfaces;
2. Nonlinear nanophotonics;
3. Quantum nonlinear optics;
4. Nonlinear chiral metasurfaces;
5. Nonlinear resonant metasurfaces.

Dr. Vin-Cent Su
Guest Editor

Dr. Meng-Hsin Chen
Guest Editor Assistant

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• nonlinear nanophotonics
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