Nanomaterials for Nonlinear Optics
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2021) | Viewed by 2958
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nonlinear optics; nonlinear plasmonics; nanoparticles and nanoclusters; molecules and biomolecules for nonlinear optics; liquids; liquid surfaces and interfaces
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nanomaterials, that is, materials with at least one dimension under about a hundred nanometers, a dimension much smaller than optical wavelengths in the visible spectrum, have contributed to a paradigm change in nonlinear optics, opening routes to applications ranging from sensing and communications to tissue imaging or health, to name a few.
Nanomaterials can take many different aspects, from dielectric and plasmonic nanoparticles to two-dimensional nanoflakes or organic assemblies as well as their composites. Hence, the diversity in their physical properties is extremely rich and allows for a large range of possibilities to adapt them to suit application needs. Optical resonances are well-known examples of such tailored properties, but size and shape may constitute others. Different approaches have been developed in order to achieve this task, from bottom–up chemical synthesis routes to lithography-based top–down techniques. If these human-made architectured nanomaterials known as metamaterials are the most common ones, mature-based ones can nevertheless be found, and their use must probably be further developed.
The present Special Issue intends to present the current state of the art in the field, focusing on the nanomaterial nonlinear optical properties, as well as their use in applications involving a nonlinear optical process. Second-order processes such as second harmonic generation as well as third-order processes like two photon excited fluorescence are the most described ones, but sum frequency generation or Kerr effects also present potential alternatives.
I firmly believe that your contribution to this Special Issue on this topic will help the community to achieve a complete and useful overview of the most recent advances in the field.
Thank you.
Prof. Pierre-Francois Brevet
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- dielectric nanoparticles
- plasmonic nanoparticles
- molecular aggregates
- nanocomposites
- metamaterials
- nonlinear plasmonics
- second harmonic generation
- two photon excited fluorescence
- Kerr effects
