Plasmonics has become a mature sub-field of photonics: novel concepts such as optical nanoantenna, radiation field enhancement, nano-optics, and flat lens, considered as exotic and ground-breaking just a decade ago, are now of common usage. Plasmonics is finding its way into patents, devices, and even commercial systems. The most successful and promising application fields are probably biosensing with surface-enhanced spectroscopies, optical microscopy, and wavefront engineering with metasurfaces. These application fields reflect the main present industrial and societal needs of digitalized health care, sensitive diagnostics, and efficient broadband telecommunications. At the last workshop of the “
Plasmonica” series, held in Turin, Italy on July 7th-8th 2022, biosensing and metasurfaces were extensively discussed by more than 30 young speakers and more than 20 poster presenters, together with more fundamental studies on advanced light sources, detectors, modulators as well as quantum, statistical and thermal dynamics in optical nanostructures.
The goal of this Research Topic is to offer an overview of the state of the art in the rapidly developing field of Plasmonics, especially focusing on results by early career researchers. This will promote discussions on the latest results in Plasmonics and pave the way for future applications in various field ranging from biosensing and diagnostics to telecommunications.
This Research Topic is intended to showcase the original contributions by several research groups lead by young investigators active in Europe in the field of Plasmonics. In particular, it will cover subjects such as novel surface-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy schemes for biosensing, plasmonic concepts in photonic integrated waveguide chips for biosensing, novel experimental setups for plasmonic metasurface testing, near-field imaging of sub-wavelength confined optical modes in two dimensions, particle acceleration with optical fields to microplastic detection, and novel light-matter interaction effects ranging from photochromic molecules to phonon-polaritons.
Plasmonics has become a mature sub-field of photonics: novel concepts such as optical nanoantenna, radiation field enhancement, nano-optics, and flat lens, considered as exotic and ground-breaking just a decade ago, are now of common usage. Plasmonics is finding its way into patents, devices, and even commercial systems. The most successful and promising application fields are probably biosensing with surface-enhanced spectroscopies, optical microscopy, and wavefront engineering with metasurfaces. These application fields reflect the main present industrial and societal needs of digitalized health care, sensitive diagnostics, and efficient broadband telecommunications. At the last workshop of the “
Plasmonica” series, held in Turin, Italy on July 7th-8th 2022, biosensing and metasurfaces were extensively discussed by more than 30 young speakers and more than 20 poster presenters, together with more fundamental studies on advanced light sources, detectors, modulators as well as quantum, statistical and thermal dynamics in optical nanostructures.
The goal of this Research Topic is to offer an overview of the state of the art in the rapidly developing field of Plasmonics, especially focusing on results by early career researchers. This will promote discussions on the latest results in Plasmonics and pave the way for future applications in various field ranging from biosensing and diagnostics to telecommunications.
This Research Topic is intended to showcase the original contributions by several research groups lead by young investigators active in Europe in the field of Plasmonics. In particular, it will cover subjects such as novel surface-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy schemes for biosensing, plasmonic concepts in photonic integrated waveguide chips for biosensing, novel experimental setups for plasmonic metasurface testing, near-field imaging of sub-wavelength confined optical modes in two dimensions, particle acceleration with optical fields to microplastic detection, and novel light-matter interaction effects ranging from photochromic molecules to phonon-polaritons.
