When light interacts with metal nanostructures, it can couple to free-electron excitations near
the metal surface. The electromagnetic resonances associated with these surface plasmons …

Metamaterials, artificial composite structures with exotic material properties, have emerged
as a new frontier of science involving physics, material science, engineering and chemistry …

This Colloquium presents an overview of the research on nonlinear electromagnetic
metamaterials. The developed theoretical approaches and experimental designs are …

Laser science has been successful in producing increasingly high-powered, faster and
smaller coherent light sources,,,,,,,,. Examples of recent advances are microscopic lasers …

Underpinned by the advent of metamaterials, transformation optics offers great versatility for
controlling electromagnetic waves to create materials with specially designed properties …

This article offers a comprehensive survey of results obtained for solitons and complex
nonlinear wave patterns supported by nonlinear lattices (NLs), which represent a spatially …

Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

We review both theoretical and experimental advances in the recently emerged field of
modulated photonic lattices. These artificial periodic dielectric structures provide a powerful …

Although a relatively new area of nanoscience, nonlinear plasmonics has become a fertile
ground for the development and testing of new ideas pertaining to light–matter interaction …

Traditional objective lenses in modern microscopy, based on the refraction of light, are
restricted by the Rayleigh diffraction limit. The existing methods to overcome this limit can be …