Introduction to the Feature Issue on nanophotonics

Greg Sun, Ta-Jen Yen, Jiunn-Woei Liaw, and Din Ping Tsai

Opt. Express 24(18), 20059-20061 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Review on photonic properties of nanowires for photovoltaics [Invited]

S. Mokkapati and C. Jagadish

Opt. Express 24(15), 17345-17358 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Large spontaneous-emission enhancements in metallic nanostructures: towards LEDs faster than lasers [Invited]

Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis, Robert W. Boyd, Eli Yablonovitch, and Xiang Zhang

Opt. Express 24(16), 17916-17927 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhancement of light-matter interaction and photocatalytic efficiency of Au/TiO₂ hybrid nanowires

Jubok Lee, Seonhee Lee, Min Su Kim, Hyunjung Shin, and Jeongyong Kim

Opt. Express 24(14), 15171-15179 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (1)]

Confined migration of induced hot electrons in Ag/graphene/TiO₂ composite nanorods for plasmonic photocatalytic reaction

Hung Ji Huang, Shi-Yuan Zhen, Ping-Yu Li, Shien-Der Tzeng, and Hai-Pang Chiang

Opt. Express 24(14), 15603-15608 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Excitation of surface waves on the interfaces of general bi-isotropic media

Seulong Kim and Kihong Kim

Opt. Express 24(14), 15882-15896 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Visualization of Bloch surface waves and directional propagation effects on one-dimensional photonic crystal substrate

Yu-Ju Hung and I-Sheng Lin

Opt. Express 24(14), 16003-16009 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Size and morphology dependent evolution of resonant modes in ZnO microspheres grown by hydrothermal synthesis

Trong Huynh-Buu Ngo, Ching-Hang Chien, Shang-Hsuan Wu, and Yia-Chung Chang

Opt. Express 24(14), 16010-16015 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Design optimization and fabrication of Mach- Zehnder interferometer based on MIM plasmonic waveguides

Shun Kamada, Toshihiro Okamoto, Salah E. El-Zohary, and Masanobu Haraguchi

Opt. Express 24(15), 16224-16231 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Unusual imaging properties of superresolution microspheres

Pin-Yi Li, Yang Tsao, Yun-Ju Liu, Zong-Xing Lou, Wei-Li Lee, Shi-Wei Chu, and Chih-Wei Chang

Opt. Express 24(15), 16479-16486 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Label-free cellular structure imaging with 82 nm lateral resolution using an electron-beam excitation-assisted optical microscope

Masahiro Fukuta, Yuriko Masuda, Wataru Inami, and Yoshimasa Kawata

Opt. Express 24(15), 16487-16495 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Pulsed and CW adjustable 1942 nm single-mode all-fiber Tm-doped fiber laser system for surgical laser soft tissue ablation applications

Yize Huang, Jamil Jivraj, Jiaqi Zhou, Joel Ramjist, Ronnie Wong, Xijia Gu, and Victor X. D. Yang

Opt. Express 24(15), 16674-16686 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Electrically tunable transmission of gold binary-grating metasurfaces integrated with liquid crystals

Kuo-Ping Chen, Shi-Cheng Ye, Chi-Yin Yang, Zong-Han Yang, Wei Lee, and Mao-Guo Sun

Opt. Express 24(15), 16815-16821 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Avoided resonance crossing and non-reciprocal nearly perfect absorption in plasmonic nanodisks with near-field and far-field couplings

Shih-Hui Gilbert Chang and Chia-Yi Sun

Opt. Express 24(15), 16822-16834 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF  [Suppl. Mat. (6)]

MHz-ultrasound generation by chirped femtosecond laser pulses from gold nano-colloidal suspensions

Frances Camille P. Masim, Wei-Hung Hsu, Chih-Hung Tsai, Hao-Li Liu, Matteo Porta, Mai Thanh Nguyen, Tetsu Yonezawa, Armandas Balčytis, Xuewen Wang, Saulius Juodkazis, and Koji Hatanaka

Opt. Express 24(15), 17050-17059 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Controlling the nonlinear optical properties of plasmonic nanoparticles with the phase of their linear response

Jérémy Butet, T. V. Raziman, Kuang-Yu Yang, Gabriel D. Bernasconi, and Olivier J. F. Martin

Opt. Express 24(15), 17138-17148 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Review on photonic properties of nanowires for photovoltaics [Invited]

S. Mokkapati and C. Jagadish

Opt. Express 24(15), 17345-17358 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Boosted photocatalytic efficiency through plasmonic field confinement with bowtie and diabolo nanostructures under LED irradiation

Chia-Hua Lee, Shih-Chieh Liao, Tzy-Rong Lin, Shing-Hoa Wang, Dong-Yan Lai, Po-Kai Chiu, Jyh-Wei Lee, and Wen-Fa Wu

Opt. Express 24(16), 17541-17552 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Manganese-doped near-infrared emitting nanocrystals for in vivo biomedical imaging

Wing-Cheung Law, Zhourui Xu, Ken-Tye Yong, Xin Liu, Mark T. Swihart, Mukund Seshadri, and Paras N. Prasad

Opt. Express 24(16), 17553-17561 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Broadband gold nanoantennas arrays with transverse dimension effects

Chen-Wei Su and Kuo-Ping Chen

Opt. Express 24(16), 17760-17765 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Electrical and optical performance of plasmonic silicon solar cells based on light scattering of silver and indium nanoparticles in matrix-combination

Wen-Jeng Ho, Yi-Yu Lee, Chia-Hua Hu, and Wei-Lien Wang

Opt. Express 24(16), 17900-17909 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Enhance the light-harvesting capability of the ITO-free inverted small molecule solar cell by ZnO nanorods

Ming-Yi Lin, Shang-Hsuan Wu, Li-Jen Hsiao, Widhya Budiawan, Karunakara Moorthy Boopathi, Wei-Chen Tu, Yia-Chung Chang, and Chih-Wei Chu

Opt. Express 24(16), 17910-17915 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Lambertian thermal emitter based on plasmonic enhanced absorption

Chih-Ming Wang and Din Ping Tsai

Opt. Express 24(16), 18382-18387 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Efficiently poled electro-optic polymer modulators

Feng Qiu and Shiyoshi Yokoyama

Opt. Express 24(17), 19020-19025 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Local temperature variation measurement by anti-Stokes luminescence in attenuated total reflection geometry

Ken Yamamoto, Ryotaro Togawa, Ryushi Fujimura, and Kotaro Kajikawa

Opt. Express 24(17), 19026-19031 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Femtosecond laser-induced hard X-ray generation in air from a solution flow of Au nano-sphere suspension using an automatic positioning system

Wei-Hung Hsu, Frances Camille P. Masim, Matteo Porta, Mai Thanh Nguyen, Tetsu Yonezawa, Armandas Balčytis, Xuewen Wang, Lorenzo Rosa, Saulius Juodkazis, and Koji Hatanaka

Opt. Express 24(18), 19994-20001 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Plasmonic coupled modes in metal-dielectric multilayer structures: Fano resonance and giant field enhancement

Zouheir Sekkat, Shinji Hayashi, Dmitry V. Nesterenko, Anouar Rahmouni, Siham Refki, Hidekazu Ishitobi, Yasushi Inouye, and Satoshi Kawata

Opt. Express 24(18), 20080-20088 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF

Strong coupling of localized surface plasmons and ensembles of dye molecules

V. N. Peters, T. U. Tumkur, Jing Ma, Nicholas A. Kotov, and M. A. Noginov

Opt. Express 24(22), 25653-25664 (2016)  View: HTML | PDF