Advancements in Optical Materials and Photonic Device Technologies—2nd Edition
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026 | Viewed by 369
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optics and photonics; interferometry; laser technology; optical coherence tomography; imaging; infrared spectroscopy; quantum sensing; non-destructive testing
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2. Institute for Mathematical Methods in Medicine and Data Based Modelling, Johannes Kepler University (JKU), Linz, Austria
Interests: optical imaging techniques for material research; optical sensing; digital and computational optics; scattering media
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, the photonics industry has experienced rapid growth in many sectors. The application scenarios range from biomedicine, telecommunications, routine microscopy, and process monitoring at industrial facilities to telescopy, the observation of gravitational waves, and sensing with quantum light. This progress is generating an intense demand for the development and advancement of optical materials, which are the cornerstone of light handling and manipulation. The development of new photonic devices and detectors, extending operating ranges, reducing losses, increasing sensitivity, and the ability to generate light with desired properties are just a few examples related to materials development.
This second edition is dedicated to the latest advances in optical materials facilitating the progress of photonic technologies, and thus, aims to dissiminate the most recent result in this field. Topics will cover a broad range of materials: semiconductors, glasses, linear and nonlinear materials, crystals, active and passive systems, fibers and waveguides, metamaterials, quantum dots, mirrors, and coatings.
Researchers with unpublished original results in the above-mentioned areas who are keen for rapid dissemination are encouraged to contribute in the form of research and review articles.
Dr. Ivan Zorin
Dr. Bettina Heise
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- advanced optial materials
- enhanced optical properties
- glasses
- photonic crystals
- semiconductors
- optical fibers
- nonlinear crystals
- metamaterials
- material aspects of photonic devices
- coatings
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