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Optical Materials Express Feature Issue

Beyond order: random, aperiodic, and hyperuniform photonic materials

Submissions Open: 1 September 2023

Submission Deadline: 15 December 2023

Advances in theory, computational modeling, and nanofabrication of optical structures with tailored disorder and engineered aperiodic order have enabled researchers to predict the properties of complex photonic structures with high precision and demonstrate novel optical phenomena. As a result, non-periodic photonic materials and nanostructures currently play an important role in a wide range of optical applications including radiation engineering and random lasing, lens-less imaging, enhanced optical sensing and spectroscopy, and nonlinear and integrated quantum photonics.

This feature issue will highlight recent advances in complex photonics using engineered light transport and localization phenomena in optical materials with tailored structural correlations, aperiodic order, and hyperuniform disorder. It will focus on novel metamaterials and nanophotonic structures for light generation and random lasing, optical sensing, photon detection, spectroscopy, imaging, and nonlinear photonics. Submissions on emerging topics such as non-Hermitian and topological media with disorder, criticality and anomalous photon transport, localization in number-theoretic potentials, as well as quantum materials exploiting coherent phenomena in the multiple scattering regime are also welcome.

Topics to be covered include but are not limited to:

  • Correlated and hyperuniform disordered media
  • Random and pseudo-random lasing structures and materials
  • Hierarchical, multifractal, and biologically inspired materials
  • Amorphous photonic materials and optical fluids
  • Anomalous photon transport in optical materials
  • Complex photonic structures for imaging and spectroscopy
  • Aperiodic materials for nonlinear and quantum photonics
  • New concepts in aperiodic order and disordered photonics

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual guidelines for submission to Optical Materials Express and must be submitted online through the Prism submission system. When submitting, authors should specify that the manuscript is for the "Beyond order: random, aperiodic, and hyperuniform photonic materials" feature issue (choose from the drop-down menu).

Feature Issue Guest Editors:

Luca Dal Negro, Boston University, USA (Lead Editor)
Hui Cao, Yale University, USA
Marcel Filoche, Institut Langevin, ESPCI, CNRS, France
Sebastian Schulz, University of St. Andrews, UK
Silvia Vignolini, University of Cambridge, UK
Diederik Wiersma, INRIM, LENS, University of Florence, Italy