Guest Editors:
Guixin Li
Southern University of Science and Technology, China (Lead Editor)
Thomas Pertsch
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Arka Majumdar
University of Washington, USA
Shumin Xiao
Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China
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Optical metasurfaces are currently an important research area all around the world because of their wide application opportunities in imaging, wavefront engineering, nonlinear optics, quantum information processing, just to name a
High-performance solid-state quantum sources in the telecom band are of paramount importance for long-distance quantum communications and the quantum Internet by taking advantage of a low-loss optical fiber network. Here, we demon
Spin splitting of light originates from the interplay between the polarization and spatial degrees of freedom as a fundamental constituent of the emerging spin photonics, providing a prominent pathway for manipulating photon spin
Transformation optics (TO) facilitates flexible designs of spatial modulation of optical materials via coordinate transformations, thus, enabling on-demand manipulations of electromagnetic waves. However, the application of TO the
Integrated optical phased arrays (OPAs) have attracted significant interest to steer laser beams for applications including free-space communications, holography, and light detection and ranging. Although many methods have been pr
We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate an RGB achromatic metalens that operates concurrently at three visible wavelengths (λ=450, 532, and 700 nm) with a high numerical aperture of 0.87. The RGB metalens is designed by si
The interest in dynamic modulation of light by ultra-thin materials exhibiting insulator–metal phase transition, such as VO2, has rapidly grown due to the myriad industrial applications, including smart windows and optical limiter
Nonlinear optics is a well-established field of research that traditionally relies on the interaction of light with macroscopic nonlinear media over distances significantly greater than the wavelength of light. However, the recent
Metasurfaces are subwavelength structured thin films consisting of arrays of units that allow the control of polarization, phase, and amplitude of light over a subwavelength thickness. Recent developments in topological photonics
The field of metasurface research has rapidly developed in the past decade. Electron-beam lithography (EBL) is an excellent tool used for rapid prototyping of metasurfaces. However, Gaussian-beam EBL generally struggles with low t
Multi-dimensional optical imaging systems that simultaneously gather intensity, depth, polarimetric, and spectral information have numerous applications in medical sciences, robotics, and surveillance. Nevertheless, most current a
Active devices have drawn considerable attention owing to their powerful capabilities to manipulate electromagnetic waves. Fast and periodic modulation of material properties is one of the key obstacles to the practical implementa