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Recent trends in micro- and nanophotonics: A personal selection

D. MIHALACHE1

Affiliation

  1. Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, P. O. B. MG-6, 077125 Magurele, Romania

Abstract

I give a brief overview of some recent results in micro- and nanophotonics. Due to the vast amount of research activity in these exploding areas I only concentrate on selected recent advances in (a) silicon photonics, (b) spatial and spatiotemporal optical solitons (alias light bullets) in microwaveguide arrays and in arrays of evanescently-coupled siliconon-insulator nanowires, (c) spatial solitons in photorefractive materials, (d) nanoplasmonics, (e) photonic crystals, (f) metamaterials for micro- and nanophotonics including optical materials with negative refractive indices, (g) terahertz radiation and its applications, and (h) solid-state single photon sources and nanometric size optical cavities for quantum information processing..

Keywords

Microphotonics, Nanophotonics, Silicon photonics, Plasmonics, Photonic crystals, Spatial optical solitons, Light bullets, Plasmonic lattice solitons, Metamaterials, Terahertz radiation.

Submitted at: Aug. 12, 2011
Accepted at: Sept. 15, 2011

Citation

D. MIHALACHE, Recent trends in micro- and nanophotonics: A personal selection, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 13, Iss. 9, pp. 1055-1066 (2011)