Symmetry and Asymmetry in Nano-Optics, Nano-Photonics and Optomechanics: Theory, Applications, and Reviews
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 579
Special Issue Editors
Interests: near-field optics; NSOM; SNOM; Raman; 2D materials; nonlinear optics; quantum optics; artificial intelligence (AI)
Interests: haptics; human-machine mechanical interface; sensors and actuators for wearable electronics; tribology; cross-scale and multi-physics modeling; application of artificial intelligence
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Symmetry and asymmetry are everywhere in the rapidly developed nano-optics, nano-photonics and optomechanics. Photonic crystals, for example, the artificial superlattice with C4 or C6 symmetry can support Fano resonance with ultra-high-Quality factors (Q-factor) or even bound state in the continuum (BIC) with theoretically infinite Q-factors and have demonstrated the applications in nano-lasing, high sensitivity sensors, beam steering, enhance light-matter-interaction, etc. Exploring the symmetry or asymmetry in artificial materials (including artificial superlattice) leads to new physics. For example, by breaking the inverse symmetry or C2 symmetry of the unit cell of a photonics crystal with C4 lattice symmetry, chirality can be induced. In optomechanics, symmetry and asymmetry are playing important roles as well. Light-driven motors, which are made of helix structures with Cx (x = 3, 4 or 6) symmetry, can convert spin moments to orbital moments via spin-obit coupling leading to rotation motion.
In this Special Issue of Symmetry, we invite research articles and reviews in the fields of nano-optics, nano-photonics, and optomechanics with a special focus on symmetry- and asymmetry-related exploration. This includes, but is not limited to, manipulating, characterizing and engineering photons in nanoscale, light-matter-interactions, photonic crystals, sensors, optical vortex, resonances, and machine learning applications in nano-optics and nano-photonics.
Dr. Xuezhi Ma
Dr. Yuan Ma
Prof. Dr. Qiushi Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanophotonics
- nano-optics
- optomechanics
- quantum-optics
- artificial materials
- chirality
- light-matter-interactions
- artificial intelligence (AI)
