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Journal of the Optical Society of America B Feature Issue

Tunable and Dynamic Nanophotonics

Submissions Open: 1 March 2024

Submission Deadline: 1 May 2024

Nanophotonics is an exciting field that offers unparalleled opportunities to manipulate the interaction between light and matter at the nanoscale. In contrast to traditional optical components, nanophotonics allows for the creation of dynamic and adaptive devices. This technology has many potential applications in a variety of fields, including augmented and virtual reality, optical switches and modulators, optical computing, LIDARs, displays, and integrated optics. Tunability is usually achieved by altering the optical properties of the surrounding medium or the nanostructures themselves. Several materials and physical principles can be leveraged to achieve tunability, including conductive polymers, phase change materials, conductive oxides, liquid crystals, as well as carrier refraction, chemical reactions, mechanical actuation, time-varying materials, thermo-optic and electro-optic effects, and optofluidics.

This feature issue will showcase the latest developments in tunable and dynamic nanophotonics, with a particular focus on the emerging field of time-varying materials, reprogrammable integrated optics, and dynamic metamaterials, as well as research exploring the challenges associated with modelling, designing, and optimizing these complex multi-physics systems.

Topics to be covered include but are not limited to:

  • Tunable and dynamic metasurfaces and metamaterials
  • Tunability via
    • liquid crystals
    • carrier refraction
    • graphene
    • electric bias
    • thermo-optics
    • mechanical actuation
    • chemical reactions
    • phase change materials
    • conductive oxides
    • conductive polymers
    • acousto-optics
    • nonlinear effects
    • hot-carrier dynamics
  • Advances in multiphysics simulations for tunable and dynamic nanophotonics
  • Time-varying materials
  • Tunable 2D materials and 2D heterostructures
  • Reconfigurable integrated optics, modulators, optical switches, integrated sources and detectors, single photon emitters

All papers need to present original, previously unpublished work, and will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review process of the journal. Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual guidelines for submission to JOSA B and must be uploaded through the Prism submission system. When submitting, please specify that the manuscript is for the "Tunable and Dynamic Nanophotonics" feature issue (choose from the drop-down menu).

Feature Issue Guest Editors:

Antonio Calà Lesina, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany (Lead editor)
Pierre Berini, University of Ottawa, Canada
Hui-Hsin Hsiao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Laura Na Liu, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Lora Ramunno, University of Ottawa, Canada
Junsuk Rho, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea