Progress in Domain Engineered Photonic Materials

Call for Papers

Artificially engineering ferroelectric materials' domain structures provide many potential opportunities to explore such materials' extraordinary nonlinear optical and electrooptic effects, their unique photonic bandgap structures, resonant phonon spectra, structurally coupled polaritons, and so on. Domain engineering can be applied onto materials either one dimensionally (1D) or two dimensionally (2D), can be patterned on materials periodically, quasiperiodically, or aperiodically, or can be aligned along different orientations or using complicated cascaded structures. Those commonly involved photonic materials can be versatile including ferroelectric oxide crystals, semicondcutors, electrooptic polymers, and so on, in either bulk or waveguide forms. Implementation of such a domain engineering can be very versatile too, and it may follow a direct crystal growth, an overgrowth on an already patterned structure, an electrical field poling, the E-beam writing, and so on.

Potential applications of such domain engineered materials for photonics are very widespread, including nonlinear frequency conversion, electrooptic modulation, optical bistablity, acoustics, ultrasonic transducers, terahertz (THz) generation, fiber optics, and so on.

Majority of the past researches in this area are related to the quasiphase matched (QPM) nonlinear frequency conversions. Recently, development of new photonic and optoelectronic components having unique optical functions using such advanced domain engineered materials has been becoming very attractive. However, the effort toward this direction has been crucialy relying on the availability of new optical materials, new physical mechansims, and new device designs. This special issue will focus on reporting those recent progresses in such an exciting area.

For this special issue, original research and tutorial reviewing articles are solicited in the following areas:

Authors should follow the Advances in OptoElectronics manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aoe/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:

Manuscript Due	June 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews	September 1, 2008
Publication Date	December 1, 2008

Guest Editors

• Yalin Lu, Department of Physics, US Air Force Academy, CO 80840, USA
• Hiroshi Murata, Division of Advanced Electronics and Optical Science, Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
• Chang-qing Xu, Department of Engineering Physics, McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L7