Micro- and nanophotonic technologies

Content: Foreword   Preface   An Overview of Micro- and Nanophotonic Science and Technology      PART I. FROM RESEARCH TO APPLICATION   Nanophotonics: From Fundamental Research to Applications   Photonic Crystal and Plasmonic Microcavities   Unconventional Thermal Emission from Photonic Crystals   Extremely Small Bending Loss of Organic Polaritonic Fibers   Plasmon Color Filters and Phase Controllers   Entangled Photon Pair Generation in Naturally Symmetric Quantum Dots Grown by Droplet Epitaxy   Single-Photon Generation from Nitrogen Isoelectronic Traps in III-V Semiconductors   Parity-Time Symmetry in Free Space Optics   Parity-Time Symmetric Cavities: Intrinsically Single-Mode Lasing   Silicon Quantum Dot Composites for Nanophotonics      PART II. BREAKTHROUGH APPLICATIONS   Ultrathin Polarizers and Waveplates Made of Metamaterials   Nanoimprint Lithography for the Fabrication of Metallic Metasurfaces   Applications to Optical Communication   Advanced Concepts for Solar Energy   The Micro and Nanoinvestigation and Control of Physical Processes Using Optical Fiber Sensors and Numerical Simulations: a Mathematical Approach   Laser Micronanofabrication   Ultrarealistic Imaging Based on Nanoparticle Recording Materials   An Introduction to Tomographic Diffractive Microscopy: Toward High-Speed Quantitative Imaging Beyond the Abbe Limit   Nanoplasmonic Guided Optics Hydrogen Sensor   Fiber Optic Liquid-Level Sensor System for Aerospace Applications   Tuneable Micropatterned Colloid Crystal Lasers   Colloidal Photonic Crystals Made of Soft Materials: Gels and Elastomers   Surveying the Landscape and the Prospects in Nanophotonics      Index