Acknowledgment to the Reviewers of Photonics in 2025
11 February 2026
The editorial office of Photonics would like to extend its sincere gratitude to all reviewers who contributed to the improvement of the journal quality by providing their expert opinion and evaluation of the submitted research.
We appreciate that thorough peer review demands considerable time and intellectual investment from our reviewers. In 2025, Photonics received 6159 review reports from contributors across 68 countries and territories, demonstrating the breadth of international expertise and scholarly engagement that has strengthened our publication standards.
The reviewers who agreed to have their names published this year are listed below in alphabetical order by first name. The editorial team acknowledges with gratitude all reviewers, named and anonymous alike, for their vital role in maintaining the scholarly standards of Photonics.
| Aadil Ahmad Bhat | Hsiang-Kuang Chang | Rajeev Dwivedi |
| Abdelaaziz El Ansari | Huanrong Fan | Rajesh Kumar |
| Abdul Ghaffar | Huiqin Wang | Rania M. Abdelazeem |
| Abdullah Noman | Huoxiang Zhou | Rastislav Róka |
| Abu Bashar Mohammad Hamidul Islam | Igor Bufetov | Renato Sonchini Gonçalves |
| Adis Tukhbatullin | Igor E. Protsenko | Rey-Yie Fong |
| Adnan Khan | Igor Ershov | Riasat Ali |
| Agnieszka Ozimek | Igor Titov | Rimcy Palakkappilly Alikunju |
| Agustín L. Herrera-May | Ilya Derebezov | Robert Olbrycht |
| Aifang Liu | Ilya Galaktionov | Roko Bjelica |
| Alberto Sposito | Ilya Sergeevich Shashkin | Roland Lammegger |
| Alejandro Carballar | Incheol Seo | Rongrong Hu |
| Aleksei V. Sosunov | Intesar Ramley | Rongyang Xu |
| Alexander Ershov | Ioannis Athanasios Bartsiokas | Ronis Maximidis |
| Alexander Kiriyanov | Ioannis Valais | Rosen Todorov |
| Alexander M. Lerer | Ireneusz Grulkowski | Rui Qu |
| Alexander Quandt | Irina Goryacheva | Rui Zhou |
| Alexandr Selyukov | Iryna Soltys | Ruicong Xu |
| Alexey Payusov | Ismael Cosme | Ruixuan Wang |
| Alexey S. Lipatiev | Ivan A. Aleksandrov | Ruxin Zheng |
| Alexey Tameev | Ivan Igorevich Kuznetsov | Salman Noach |
| Alfred Cheung | Jacek Lukasz Wilk-Jakubowski | Salvatore Sorrentino |
| Alfredo Gonzalez-Fernandez | Jan Hrabovský | Sandeep Kumar Chamoli |
| Alfredo Güemes | Jelena Jovanovic | Satyendra Kumar Mishra |
| Ali Rastegari | Jens Wolfgang Tomm | Saurabh Dixit |
| Amine Jaouadi | Jeong Hee Kim | Semyon V. Dudkin |
| Amit Kumar Goyal | Jesús Cuevas-Maraver | Sergey Kobtsev |
| An Pan | Ji Tan | Sergey Ksenofontov |
| Anand Mohan | Ji Wang | Sergey Moiseev |
| Anass Kharbouche | Jiahao Huo | Sergey S. Stafeev |
| Anastasia V. Grigorieva | Jianfeng Chen | Sergey Vinogradov |
| Andreas Hoffmann | Jiangtao Huangfu | Shah Nawaz Burokur |
| Andrey Chibisov | Jianshe Li | Shanzhe Wang |
| Andrey Khomich | Jianyu Hua | Shao-Qun Lin |
| Andrey Pryamikov | Jiawei Wang | Shaoxiang Duan |
| Andrey Veniaminov | Jie Liao | Shengxuan Xia |
| Angel Sinue Cruz Felix | Jijun Feng | Shiyu Zhang |
| Angela Barreda | Jinfeng Li | Shobhit Gupta |
| Anliang Liu | Jing Yang | Shuda Zhong |
| Anton Krivosheev | Jingfei Ye | Shuling Hu |
| Anton Vershovskii | Jingguo Zhu | Shuming Jiao |
| Anuj Singhal | Jinguang Lv | Siddhartha Saggar |
| Areeb Ahmed | Jinho Lee | Sijia Li |
| Arkadeep Mitra | Jinhui Chen | Simona Riurean |
| Arpan Sinha | Jinjun Xia | Sinuhé Perea-Puente |
| Artemii Bernatskyi | Jin-Kun Guo | Songmao Chen |
| Artur Geivandov | Jinlong Wei | Soon-Hong Kwon |
| Arturo Alberto Castillo-Guzmán | Jinming Liu | Soumyadeep Ghosh |
| Arvind Mukundan | Jojo Joseph | Sourav Sil |
| Asif Ali Haider | Joo Beom Eom | Sreelakshmi Sreeharan |
| Attila Hilt | Jorge Mauricio Flores | Srinivas Gandrothula |
| Atziry Magaly Ramirez Aguilera | José Juan Castro-Torres | Stefan Düsterer |
| Baosheng Du | Jose Miguel Rocha-Perez | Su Zhang |
| Basak Tuna | Jovan Ciganovic | Sushank Chaudhary |
| Ben Xu | Juan de Dios Sánchez López | Svetislav Savovic |
| Bernd Witzel | Juan E. Cedrún-Sánchez | Tao Deng |
| Bertúlio De Lima Bernardo | Julien Moussa H. Barakat | Tao Lan |
| Bhupendra Pratap Singh | Jun Yin | Tao Lin |
| Bin Du | Junchen Liu | Tao Yang |
| Bin Liu | Jung-Sheng Chiang | Tarek Mohamed |
| Bing Sun | Junseok Heo | Tayyab Imran |
| Bing Wang | Kai Zhang | Tengfei Han |
| Bingtian Guo | Kang Ying | Ti Xie |
| Bita Farhadi | Kapila Palitharathna | Tianhua Zhou |
| Bo Guo | Kasra Rouhi | Tingting Lang |
| Bogdan Mihalcea | Kaushik G. Subramanian | Tomas Horvath |
| Boris Knyazev | Kelvin C. M. Lee | Torben E. Andersen |
| Bostjan Batagelj | Kenneth Schepler | Tuo Chen |
| Bowen Jia | Kin-Pang Cheong | Vadim Parfenov |
| Brana Jelenkovic | Kinzo Kishida | Valentina Bello |
| Brian Vohnsen | Kirill Lozovoy | Valentino Pistore |
| Carlos Adrián Calles-Arriaga | Ko-Han Shih | Valeri Slavchev |
| Carlos Torres-Torres | Kohei Yamamoto | Vasily N. Lednev |
| Carolina Rickenstorff | Ksenia Khabarova | Viacheslav V. Popov |
| Catalina Alice Susala | Lan Jin | Vicky Philipsen |
| Cesare Svelto | Lelio de la Cruz May | Victor Argueta-Diaz |
| Ch. J. Salas-Juárez | Leonardo Bianchi | Victor Dyomin |
| Changfeng Si | Li Zhang | Victor Velazquez |
| Changshui Yu | Liam Collard | Viktor Dremin |
| Changyong Lan | Liang Wang | Vishal Sharma |
| Chao Mei | Liangting Sun | Vitaly Gruzdev |
| Chao Yang | Lin Jing | Vladimir B. Zaitsev |
| Charu Goel | Lin Shi | Vladimir R. Tuz |
| Chen Junyu | Lin Wang | Vladimir Toporovsky |
| Chengchangfeng Lu | Lina Zhao | Vladimir Venediktov |
| Chengzhao Luo | Lingen Huang | Vladimir Yu. Osipov |
| Chenyang Shi | Linghao Cheng | Vladimir Yusupov |
| Chitta Ranjan Das | Linhao Ren | Volodymyr Fesenko |
| Chiung-Wu Su | Liqiang Zhang | Volodymyr Gnatyuk |
| Christophe Martinez | Liquan Zhao | Vsevolod Cheburkanov |
| Chuanxin Teng | Lizhi Dong | Wafa Ben Hassen |
| Chun-Wei Yang | Lucas Kreiß | Wei Jia |
| Cong-Hui Xu | Luigi Ranno | Wei Wu |
| Congsi Wang | Lynn Davis | Wei Xu |
| Costas E. Alissandrakis | Lyubomir Ivanov Stoychev | Weijia Li |
| Dagang Jiang | Mahima Sharma | Weile Zhai |
| Daniel Marx | Manas Ranjan Biswal | Weishu Wu |
| Daqing Piao | Manish Sharma | Wenning Fu |
| Darin Ulness | Manoj Kumar | Wentao Guo |
| Davide Rocco | Manuel F. M. Costa | Wentao Zhang |
| Davood Khodadad | Maolin Chen | Wenyao Liu |
| Dax Enshan Koh | Marcel Leutenegger | Wojciech Dawidowski |
| Defeng Zou | Marcin Piotrowski | Xianfeng Xu |
| Deng Mao | Marco Bianchetti | Xiangang Luo |
| Denghao Zhu | Marco Girolami | Xianghua Yu |
| Denis Kryuchkov | Marina Butuzova | Xianglong Mao |
| Denis Lapitan | Mark Zentile | Xiansong Fang |
| Devarajulu Gelija | Markus Sigrist | Xiao Guo |
| Di Chang | Martina Piano | Xiao Jia |
| Diana Manukovskaya | Matej Bubas | Xiao Qi |
| Diego Montagud-Martínez | Mateusz Pielach | Xiaodi You |
| Dmitry S. Sitnikov | Maxim Gorkunov | Xiaosheng Xiao |
| Dmitry Savelyev | Maxim Yurkin | Xin Li |
| Dmitry Shepelsky | Mehrnaz Shoushtarian | Xin Mu |
| Doaa Youssef | Meiyi Wu | Xinbing Wang |
| Dong Pan | Mert Bayraktar | Xing Tian |
| Dongfei Wang | Michael Johannes Haslinger | Xinwei Du |
| Dongyang Han | Michael Tribelsky | Xinyang Su |
| Dulce Gonzalez-Utrera | Michał Dudek | Xiuyou Han |
| Duluo Zuo | Michel Jourlin | Xu Mao |
| Dustin Shipp | Michele Doro | Xu Wu |
| Ebrahim E. Elsayed | Mikhail Yu Ryabikin | Xuewen Shu |
| Edoardo Suerra | Min Zhang | Xumin Gao |
| Edward Sachet | Ming Hu | Yajun Wang |
| Elena De Vita | Mingchun Zhao | Yali Zhang |
| Emad S. Hassan | Minghua Cao | Yanan Zhi |
| Enguo Chen | Mohammad Javad Maleki | Yang Chen |
| Erick Reyes Vera | Mohammad Soroosh | Yang Zhou |
| Esteban Gonzalez Valencia | Mohammed Debbal | Yanhua Hong |
| Everardo Vargas-Rodriguez | Mohammed R. Hayal | Yanjun Chen |
| Fabrizio Riminucci | Mohd Fikree Hassan | Yannis Kominis |
| Fang Yuan | Morteza Maleki | Yazgan Tuna |
| Fátima Santos | Muhammad Ali Butt | Yeming Qing |
| Fei Wu | Muhammad Azam | Yi Xu |
| Fei Zhuge | Muhammad Shafi | Yi Zhou |
| Felice Gesuele | Muhammad Umar Masood | Yichao Meng |
| Feng Li | Musa Hussain | Yifan Huang |
| Feng Peng | Mustafa Busuladžić | Yifeng Hong |
| Feng Wu | Myungjin Cho | Yijie Shen |
| Fernando Rivera-López | Nandam Ashok | Ying Zhang |
| Francesca Polli | Naoto Kishi | Yiwei Ma |
| Francesco Giacinto Lavacca | Narendra Kumar | Yize Liang |
| Francesco Reda | Natalia Koliada | Yong Zhang |
| Ganesh Muthukumaran Balasubramaniam | Nicola Piovella | Yong-Yuk Won |
| Gaoyou Liu | Nicolaie Pavel | Yu Huang |
| Gemma Costa | Ningxin Li | Yu Zheng |
| George C. Valley | Noel Ivan Toto-Arellano | Yuan Ding |
| George Kliros | Oleg Antipov | Yuan Wang |
| Gerd Ehret | Oleg Morozov | Yuanxi Cao |
| Gerhard Litscher | Omar A.M. Abdelraouf | Yuanyuan Zhang |
| Gibin George | Omar Alnaseri | Yuanyuan Zhao |
| Gil Martins Fernandes | Oscar Adrian Aguirre Castro | Yue Tang |
| Gilliard N. Malheiros-Silveira | Oscar G. de Lucio | Yue Wang |
| Giuseppe Castaldi | Pankaj Kumar | Yufeng Wang |
| Gloria Verónica Vázquez | Pantea Nadimi Goki | Yuhai Li |
| Gonzalo Paez | Paola Prete | Yuqi Chen |
| Grigory Gelikonov | Paolo Piergentili | Yuri Aleksandrovich Konstantinov |
| Grzegorz Edward Gomółka | Patrick Simard | Yurii Liaschuk |
| Grzegorz Stepniak | Paul Somers | Yutao Feng |
| Guang Chen | Paulo Brandão | Yuxing Li |
| Guanyu Chen | Paulo Hisao Moriya | Yuyang Shui |
| Guilherme Lucas | Pavel A. Khorin | Yuzhu Liu |
| Guillermo Salceda-Delgado | Pavel Ivanoff Reyes | Zaijin Li |
| Günther Paltauf | Pavel Lafata | Zan Zhang |
| Guo Lin | Pavel Nikitin | Zbigniew Zakrzewski |
| Guodong Zhu | Pavel Terekhov | Zechariah B Kitzhaber |
| Guoqing Zhang | Paweł Komorowski | Zeeshan Tahir |
| Guoquan Zhou | Pei Xiang | Zeng Youjun |
| Guoyan Sun | Peng Zhang | Zenon Szczepaniak |
| Gustavo Braga | Peter LoPresti | Zhanpeng Xu |
| Hafid Zouihri | Peter Nikolaevich Tananaev | Zhe Guang |
| Haibo Luo | Philipp Oleynik | Zhen Bao |
| Hailiang Chen | Pinghu Chen | Zhen Zhang |
| Hamed Dehdashti Jahromi | Po-Heng Chou | Zhen Zhong |
| Hamed Majidiyan | Qi Qin | Zheng Tan |
| Hans Hermann Brunner | Qianbo Lu | Zhenmin Chen |
| Hao Liang | Qiang Ling | Zhijun Meng |
| Hao Wang | Qiang Liu | Zhipeng Dong |
| Haohong Chen | Qibiao Zhu | Zhizhi Kong |
| Haroon Asghar | Qidi Liu | Zhonghe Liu |
| He Yang | Qidong Wang | Zhonghua Ji |
| Hemang Jani | Qing Xie | Zhou Sha |
| He-Xiu Xu | Qinghe Song | Zihan Yang |
| Hongbin Xu | Qinghua Wang | Zihao Wang |
| Hongbo Huang | Quandong Huang | Ziqiang Li |
| Hongru Li | Quanxin Yang | Ziyang Zhang |
| Hossein Roshan | Rahul Munshi | Ziyu Wang |
| Hristina Delibašić Marković | Rahulkumar Sunil Singh |