Nanofabrication is one of the most expected important key technologies to develop next stage photonics to play an indispensable active role to take us into the deeper information and communication society. Increasing and intensive demands from photonic device researches to provide finer and more precise fabri cation technology have activated and accelerated extensive researches on nanotechnology, that has carried out a lot of interesting and promising results for novel applications in photonic devices. The main objective of the present special section is to highlight recent progress and trends in various approaches developed for building up a wide variety of photonic devices by using nanofabrication technology.
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