An overview on the properties and applications of polymer and inorganic planar 1D photonic
crystals fabricated from solution is provided here. In the last decades, photonic crystals …

The quest for realizing novel fundamental physical effects and practical applications in
ambient conditions has led to tremendous interest in microcavity exciton polaritons working …

The management of spontaneous light emission at the nanoscale is a crucial aspect in many
application domains dealing with lighting, optical communications and quantum information …

Lithium niobate (LN)-based devices are widely used in integrated and nonlinear optics. This
material is robust and resistive to high temperatures, which makes the LN-based devices …

Thanks to the increasing availability of technologies for thin film deposition, all-dielectric
structures are becoming more and more attractive for integrated photonics. As light–matter …

Featured Application The paper describes the theoretical modeling of a surface plasmon
laser, based on Ag and CdS nanowires spaced with either MoS2, SiO2, or MgF2. A quite …

Both experiments and simulations show that the polarization state and propagation path of
the Bloch surface waves sustained on a dielectric multilayer can be manipulated with the …

A new type of device consisting of a lithium niobate film coupled with a distributed Bragg
reflector (DBR) was theoretically proposed to explore and release Bloch surface waves for …

Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) has been widely investigated for its versatile optical properties, in
different fields. Typically, it has been used, among chromogenics, as a cathodic …

We report on the observation of the strong-coupling regime between quantum well excitons
and a high incidence “Brewster cavity mode” previously identified as the generalized …