Integrated Photonic and Plasmonic Devices Based on Slot Waveguides
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2018) | Viewed by 5452
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Interests: photonics; optoelectronics; sensors; chemosensors
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Dear Colleagues,
Photonic slot waveguides, which are formed by two high-index rails separated by a low-index nanometer-size slot, exhibit the unique property of confining light through total internal reflection in an ultra-thin low-index region. Since 2004, when they were conceived and experimentally demonstrated, slot waveguides have been the topic of an intense research effort motivated by their potential applications in the field of sensing, nonlinear optics, electro-optic modulation/switching, polarization splitting/rotation, and optical amplification/lasing. To scale dielectric slot waveguides, plasmonic slot waveguides with several configurations were experimentally demonstrated. Research activity on these guiding structures is quickly rising and promising results have been already achieved.
This Special Issue will provide a forum for the last research activities in photonic and plasmonic slot waveguides and their applications. Theoretical and experimental papers are solicited in, though not limited to, the following areas:
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Photonic and plasmonic sensors based on slot waveguides;
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Optical manipulation of nanoparticles and biomolecules by slot waveguides;
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Slot waveguide-based nonlinear photonic devices;
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Silicon-polymer hybrid slot waveguide modulators;
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Polarization splitters and rotators based on slot waveguides;
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Optical amplifiers, light emitting diodes, and lasers based on slot waveguides;
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Mode converters for light coupling into photonic and plasmonic slot waveguides;
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Slotted photonic crystal waveguides and their applications;
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Plasmonic and terahertz slot waveguides and relevant devices;
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Slot waveguide-enabled thermal independence in microphotonic devices;
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Slot waveguides for on-chip quantum optical circuits;
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Emerging material for slot waveguides;
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Novel configurations of slot waveguides;
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New applications of slot waveguides in short-range interconnects, telecommunications, microwave photonics, and sensing
Dr. Francesco Dell’Olio
Dr. Zhenzhou Cheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
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Optoelectronics
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Photonics
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Plasmonics
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Slot waveguide
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Silicon photonics
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Optical sensors
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Optical modulators
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Nonlinear optics
