Frontiers in Optics and Photonics

✍ Scribed by Federico Capasso, Dennis Couwenberg

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 784
• Series: de Gruyter Reference
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a cutting-edge research overview on the latest developments in the field of Optics and Photonics. All chapters are authored by the pioneers in their field and will cover the developments in Quantum Photonics, Optical properties of 2D Materials, Optical Sensors, Organic Opto-electronics, Nanophotonics, Metamaterials, Plasmonics, Quantum Cascade lasers, LEDs, Biophotonics and biomedical photonics and spectroscopy.

✦ Table of Contents

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