Interdisciplinary Approaches and Applications of Optics & Photonics, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Optics and Lasers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2026 | Viewed by 99
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Interests: optical metrology; image processing; thin films, micro- and nanostructures and systems; optics education
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Interests: vision sciences; adaptative optics; optometry; instrumentation; ocular aberrations
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Dear Colleagues,
The 7th International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics, AOP2026, will be held in Lisbon (Portugal), July 7–10, 2026, organized by the Portuguese Society for Optics and Photonics. Since its first iteration back in 2011, the AOP conference has fostered, in an open, friendly, and stimulating environment, the establishment of a wide range of cooperative projects and relationships with colleagues and institutions involved in research and education in optics and photonics from across the globe. Open to contributions from all domains of optics and photonics and application fields, with this conference, we expect to review the state of the art in these subjects and predict and discuss the future of optics and photonics research. A large number of plenary and keynote lectures by world-renowned researchers in all fields of optics and photonics will contribute to the high quality of this conference’s varied and exciting scientific program.
We are honored to serve as Guest Editors of this Special Issue of Applied Sciences, which will showcase a selection of revised, expanded, and improved versions of papers submitted and accepted at the AOP2026 conference in all subjects relevant to Applied Sciences. Its main scope is to provide a broad collection of the most innovative research discussed at the latest iteration of the conference related to all topics concerning optics and photonics applications. We warmly invite researchers to submit their contributions, both original research articles and review papers, to this Special Issue. Submittions on topics in any and all fields of optics will be considered. Research of an interdisciplinary nature is particularly welcomed.
Dr. Manuel Filipe P. C. M. Costa
Dr. Sandra Franco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optics, photonics, and nano-photonics
- plasmonics
- theoretical optics and quantum and nonlinear optics
- optical communications and sensors
- optical fibers and applications
- biophotonics and biomedical and medical applications of optics and photonics
- ultrafast lasers and ultrafast optics
- power lasers
- optical metrology, image processing, and industrial applications
- optometry, ophthalmic optics, and color and visual sciences
- optoelectronics
- microwave photonics
- photonics and optical instrumentation for space and astronomy
- optics and photonics for smart mobility and smart cities
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