Abstract

Rapid progress of nanoscience and nanotechnology has made significant impact on many academic disciplines and technical fields recently. In particular, nano-optics has become one of the fastest growing areas in optics and optoelectronics with many exciting advances published in a wide range of journals. This focus issue intends to provide a broad vision of this emerging area with the inclusion of excellent review articles by internationally renowned experts in the field as well as original contributions which cover the breadth of this new field. The represented areas include quantum dots and nanowires, photonic crystals, silicon photonics, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, slow light and fast light, nano-particles and nano-crystals, and guided optics. We would like to express our gratitude to authors of the invited manuscripts to devote their precious time to write the illuminating articles and reviewers for their thorough reading and helpful comments. Finally, we hope you will enjoy the articles and find inspiration for your own work.

© 2008 Chinese Optics Letters

Joint Applied Optics and Chinese Optics Letters feature introduction: digital holography and three-dimensional imaging

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