Special Issue: Frontiers in Nanophotonics: Physics, Devices, and Applications

Nanophotonics has emerged as a central platform for controlling light at subwavelength scales and translating fundamental optical physics into compact devices for sensing, communications, computing, and quantum technologies. Despite significant progress in the field, key scientific and technological challenges remain in understanding and engineering light–matter interactions beyond the diffraction limit, achieving efficient and low-loss optical modulation and frequency conversion, integrating heterogeneous nanoscale structures on scalable photonic platforms, and bridging novel physical mechanisms with robust device-level performance.

This Special Issue aims to provide a timely platform for presenting recent advances and emerging directions in this rapidly evolving field. We welcome original research articles and review papers addressing both fundamental and applied aspects of nanophotonics.

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Plasmonics and metasurfaces

Metamaterials and nanostructured photonic media

Light–matter interactions at the nanoscale

Integrated nanophotonic devices and circuits

Nonlinear and ultrafast nanophotonics

Quantum nanophotonics and quantum light sources

Silicon and integrated photonics

Topological photonics

Photonic crystals and bandgap engineering

Optical sensing and photonic computing

Nanophotonic imaging and spectroscopy

Artificial intelligence-assisted photonic systems

 

 

  Keywords

plasmonics; metamaterials; light–matter interactions; integrated nanophotonic devices and circuits; nonlinear nanophotonics; quantum nanophotonics

 

 

 

  Guest Editor Prof. Lu Sun

State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications
Department of Electronic Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai, China

Email: sunlu@sjtu.edu.cn

 

 

 

  Submission Information

Submission Deadline: December 31, 2026

First Decision: 14–28 days
Final Decision: 30–60 days

Online Submission:
https://ojs.wiserpub.com/index.php/TOP/user/register

Submission Guidelines:
https://ojs.wiserpub.com/index.php/top/about/submissions

Alternatively, manuscripts may also be submitted via email to:
editorial-top@wiserpub.com

All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review according to the journal’s standard editorial process. Accepted papers will be published in regular issues of the journal.

   

 

 

Article Processing Charge (APC)

All accepted manuscripts in this Special Issue will receive a full APC waiver. No publication fees will be charged.