Advanced Optical Measurement Techniques and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 1264
Special Issue Editors
Interests: laser optics; FT-IR spectrometer; optical measurement and inspection; thermal analysis; applied optics
Interests: static modulated spectroscopic techniques; spectral imaging; machine-learning based spectroscopy; Fourier-transform spectroscopy; laser technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Optical measurement techniques have played a crucial role in the study of the interactions between light and materials across various fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, astronomy, etc.
This Special Issue, titled “Advanced Optical Measurement Techniques and Applications”, will explore a range of advanced optical technologies pertinent to scientific, chemical, biomedical, and environmental applications. It will provide a comprehensive overview of current trends, challenges, and future directions in these rapidly evolving fields. Various optical sensing technologies including spectroscopy and microscopy facilitate the detection of gases like CO2, NH3 and H2O, as well as proteins and biological tissues. These technologies employ diverse optical sources including optical comb sources, superluminescent light emitting diodes, supercontinuum sources, and short pulse laser sources. Thanks to advances in machine learning and computational algorithms, the performances of these techniques have been significantly enhanced, allowing for compact, non-contact, rapid and accurate measurement. Moreover, optical materials such as metamaterials, metasurfaces and photonics crystals are greatly useful to these applications.
This Special Issue seeks contributions that address theoretical, experimental and applied research in academic and industrial contexts. The technical developments in optical measurement, including hardware, algorithms and devices, will serve as valuable references and educational resources for graduate students and researchers in engineering, physics, photonics and computer science who are interested in these fields.
Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Computational spectroscopy;
- Raman spectroscopy;
- Infrared spectroscopy;
- Fourier transform spectrometry;
- Ptychography/Fourier ptychography;
- Computational microscopy;
- Digital holographic microscopy;
- Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy;
- Chip-based optical sensing;
- Computational optical sensing techniques;
- Hyperspectral imaging;
- Coherent sources for sensing;
- Incoherent sources for sensing;
- Machine learning for super-resolution;
- Machine learning for computational imaging;
- Optical materials including metamaterials, metasurfaces and photonics crystals for imaging and sensing;
- Biomedical applications;
- Environmental applications;
- Point-of-care applications;
- Applications to food and chemical analysis.
Prof. Dr. Won Kweon Jang
Guest Editor
Dr. Ju Yong Cho
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- spectroscopy
- microscopy
- ptychography
- hyperspectral imaging
- chip-based sensing
- optical instrumentation and measurement
- remote sensing
- non-destructive measurement
- computational optical sensing
- nanomaterials
- optical sources
- optical imaging
- machine learning
- biomedical applications
- environmental applications
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