Microcavity Optics: Materials, Physics and Devices
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2023) | Viewed by 12413
Special Issue Editors
Interests: micro-cavity lasers; organic semiconductor lasers; quantum dots lasers; integrated photonic devices and circuits; plasmonics; photonic crystals
Interests: nano printing; nanophotonics; quantum dots; bio-detection; optoelectronics
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Interests: polymer optical fibers; random lasers; random fiber lasers; disorder optics; magneto-optic effect
Interests: lab on fiber; whispering gallery microcavities; vapor sensing; two-photon lithography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microcavities provide a universal platform to investigate light–matter interactions due to their extremely high-quality factors and very small mode volumes. Typical microcavity configurations include Fabry–Perot (FP) cavities, whispering gallery mode (WGM) cavities, distributed Bragg-reflector (DBR) cavities, distributed feedback (DFB) cavities, and random cavities. Rich and interesting physics in microcavities have been revealed, such as lasing, optomechanics, cavity mode coupling, mode-splitting, enhanced Raman and Brillouin scattering, and Fano resonance, which are the footstones for microcavity devices. To create a real microcavity, various organic/inorganic building blocks of microwires, microrings, microdisks, and photonic crystals have been employed, and special fabrication schemes for different situations have been invented such as etching, nanoimprint, nanostructures transfer, interference lithography, two-photon lithography, thermal evaporation, horizontal dipping, ink-jet printing, and drop casting. Research on microcavities is evolving and becoming increasingly comprehensive, often simultaneously involving many aspects from design and fabrication to the revelation of photophysical mechanisms in microcavities with novel spectroscopic characteristics. The long-term aim of the research in this field is to promote the applications of microcavities in display, sensing, imaging, optical communication, smart optoelectronics, and data storage, which requires tremendous efforts from more researchers.
Prof. Dr. Tianrui Zhai
Dr. Meng Su
Prof. Dr. Zhijia Hu
Prof. Dr. Shengfei Feng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- organic functional microcavity
- asymmetric microcavity
- coupled microcavities
- microlasers
- microcavities on fiber
- integrated photonic circuits and devices
- smart optoelectronics
- disorder optics
- magneto-optic effect
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