Low-dimensional optics

François Flory; Ludovic Escoubas; Judikaël Le Rouzo; Gerard Berginc; Cheng-Chung Lee

doi:10.1117/1.JNP.9.093594

26 February 2015 Low-dimensional optics

François Flory, Ludovic Escoubas, Judikaël Le Rouzo, Gerard Berginc, Cheng-Chung Lee

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Journal of Nanophotonics, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 093594 (February 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.9.093594

Abstract

Thanks to progress in material science and nanotechnologies, surfaces and thin films can now be structured at different scales. Photonics components take advantage of this possibility to fulfill still more and more complex functions. They are composed of organic and inorganic materials, dielectrics, semiconductors, and metallic materials, or a mixture of them. Multiscale and chiral structures can be used to control both spectral and spatial distributions of light together with its polarization state. The optical mode density in the near field and in the far field can then be designed in particular by combining more or less resonant structures for the optical waves, associating diffraction, interferences, and anisotropic structures like Fabry–Perot, waveguide, plasmons, and photonic crystals. Artificially nanostructured materials, often called metamaterials, exhibit new properties. Different phenomena, including optical topological insulator and structures for vortex waves transporting angular momentum of photons, are discussed and illustrated. With the development of nanometer size structures, another step is taken toward allowing control of the intimate interaction of optical waves with materials to tune their basic electronic properties and permittivity. Both optical and electronic properties are also strongly dependent on coupling effects and need a global approach.

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François Flory, Ludovic Escoubas, Judikaël Le Rouzo, Gerard Berginc, and Cheng-Chung Lee "Low-dimensional optics," Journal of Nanophotonics 9(1), 093594 (26 February 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JNP.9.093594

Published: 26 February 2015

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