Recent Advances in Optomechatronics

Dear Colleagues,

Optomechatronics is a blend of optics (and photonics), mechanical engineering (especially through precision mechanics), electronics, a strong component of control and automation, as well as IT. This formerly multi-disciplinary approach is more and more getting together in the last two decades as a single, complex problem-solving domain.
The aim of this Special Issue is to offer a forum for recent research in the field, but also for reviews and communications on relevant topics, concerning the development of macro- and micro-optomechatronic devices and systems (the latter as Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)). Analytical studies, numerical simulations, and/or experimental approaches are considered. Such equipments (for example laser scanners and modulators of different types) usually include rapidly and/or precisely moving parts, therefore Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and sensors and control structures, respectively, have to be considered, and often kynematic and dynamic aspects, as well.
Optomechatronic applications are also targeted. They encompass areas as diverse as industrial (from measurement techniques to robotics and laser manufacturing, for example), biomedical (from imaging, for example, with Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), to laser systems in medicine), remote sensing, as well as security & defence. We hope thus to offer the scientific community an insight into a rapidly evolving and fascinating field.
While this forum is open to all researchers, it also provides a selection of papers that will be presented at the 1^st International Conference ‘Advances in 3OM: Opto-Mechatronics, Opto-Mechanics, and Optical Metrology’ , Dec. 13-16, 2021 (Timisoara, Romania), organized in celebration of 100 years of the Polytechnic University of Timisoara.

Prof. Virgil-Florin Duma
Guest Editor

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