Special Issues

Photonics runs special issues to create collections of papers on specific topics. The aim is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors who are experts in the subject and oversee the editorial process for papers. Papers published in a Special Issue will be collected together on a dedicated page of the journal website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging submission deadline 30 May 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5332 | Submission Open
Biomedical Spectroscopy: Techniques and Applications submission deadline 30 May 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1267 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical microspectroscopy; fluorescence spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy; FTIR spectroscopy; NMR and EPR spectroscopy; mass spectrometry; diffuse optical spectroscopy; diffuse correlation spectroscopy; functional near-infrared spectroscopy
Light as a Cure: Photobiomodulation, from the Cell to the Clinical Application submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 17 articles | Viewed by 35181 | Submission Open
Keywords: bone regeneration; cell metabolism; high-intensity laser therapy; HILT; laser therapy; low-level laser therapy; LLLT; mitochondria; photobiomodulation; tissue dysfunction; wound healing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics)
Advances in Visible Light Communication
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 14 articles | Viewed by 14473 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical wireless communications; visible light communication; modulation/demodulation; Indoor localization and positioning; machine learning; photon counting
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
Advances in Modern Photonics
edited by and Pavel V. Subochev
submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10880 | Submission Open
Keywords: optics; biophotonics
Fiber Laser and Their Applications submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4776 | Submission Open
Keywords: fiber laser; mode-locking; Q-switching; optical imaging; micro/nano structure fabricating
Optical Systems for Astronomy
edited by and Gennady G. Valyavin
submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3791 | Submission Open
Direct Laser Writing for Photonic Applications submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2789 | Submission Open
Keywords: direct laser writing; optical and photonic devices; sensors and actuators; microfluidics; metamaterials; functional materials
Ultrashort Ultra-Intense (Petawatt) Laser
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2646 | Submission Open
Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1920 | Submission Open
Keywords: rare-earth-doped fiber lasers and amplifiers; brillouin fiber lasers and amplifiers; raman fiber lasers and amplifiers; fiber optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers; continuous-wave fiber lasers; pulsed fiber lasers; gain switching; Q-switching; mode locking; the modeling and optimization of fiber lasers and amplifiers
Advances in Avalanche Photodiodes
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1443 | Submission Open
Keywords: avalanche photodiodes; impact ionization; photonic circuit integration; single-photon avalanche diodes
Advances of Photoacoustic Tomography
edited by , and Li Qi
submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1428 | Submission Open
Keywords: photoacoustic tomography; photoacoustic imaging; molecular imaging; laser; ultrasound; image reconstruction; light fluence; quantitative imaging; multispectral imaging; contrast agents
Quantum Droplets
edited by , , and Grigori E. Astrakharchik
submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1269 | Submission Open
Keywords: ultradilute quantum liquids; nonlinearities; optical lattices; dipolar atoms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Photonics and Technologies)
Fundamentals and Applications of Optical Frequency Combs
edited by , and Hualong Bao
submission deadline 31 May 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 834 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical frequency combs; microcombs; integrated photonics; frequency metrology; optical spectroscopy; frequency synthesis; optical computing; telecommunications; LiDAR
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
Advances in Micro-Nano Photonics and Optical Communication submission deadline 31 May 2023 | Viewed by 141 | Submission Open
Keywords: micro-nano photonics; light-field manipulation; intelligent photonics; optical communication; photonic signal processing
Fundamentals of Nanoscale Effects and Computational Tools for SARS-CoV-2 Optical Biosensors submission deadline 31 May 2023 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open
Keywords: COVID-19 detection; SARS-COV-2; biosensors; biosignals; biophotonics; nanomaterials; nanotechnology; signal processing; machine learning; artificial intelligence; soft computing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Optical Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers. Practical Applications of Fiber-Based Laser Sources submission deadline 1 Jun 2023 | 11 articles | Viewed by 8700 | Submission Open
Keywords: pulsed fiber-based master oscillators; new regimes; single-frequency fiber lasers; Raman fiber lasers; brillouin fiber lasers; high-power pulsed and cw fiber lasers and amplifiers; mode-instability effects; coherent combination; and nonlinear effects; ultrafast fiber lasers and their characterization; nonlinear dynamics in optical fibers; fiber lasers for operation in new spectral ranges; lasers and amplifiers based on special fibers including multicore fibers; microstructured fibers; photonic crystal fibers; gas- and liquid-filled fibers; and others; practical applications of fiber laser systems including telecommunications; spectroscopy; sensing; and so on; the development and investigation of promising materials used as saturable absorbers in fiber lasers
Development and Application of Optical Coherence Tomography in the Context of Other Biophotonics Techniques submission deadline 1 Jun 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2024 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical coherence tomography; multimodal OCT; optical coherence angiography; optical coherence elastography; optical biopsy; biomedical diagnostics; image quantification
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics)
Nanophotonics, Metasurface, and Topological Photonic Crystals: Physics and Applications submission deadline 10 Jun 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2630 | Submission Open
Keywords: subwavelength nanostructure; metasurface for light manipulation and imaging; imaging through scattering; topological photonic crystals
Ultrafast Laser Irradiation in Surface Engineering and Tribology
edited by , and
submission deadline 10 Jun 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2416 | Submission Open
Keywords: laser control; beam shaping; laser parameters; laser measurement; laser processing; ultrafast laser; surface engineering; tribology
Optical Wireless Communications and Applications submission deadline 10 Jun 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2071 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
Imaging and Sensing with Correlated Photons submission deadline 10 Jun 2023 | Viewed by 370 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum imaging; quantum sensing; photon correlations; entanglement
State-of-the-Art Optical Communication in China
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2521 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
Surface Plasmon
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1231 | Submission Open
Keywords: surface plasmon; nanophotonic; nanomaterials
Electrolytes, Charged Fluids and Plasmas submission deadline 15 Jun 2023 | Viewed by 294 | Submission Open
Flat Bands: Fundamentals and Applications
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2506 | Submission Open
Keywords: strongly correlated spin; electronic and bosonic systems with flat bands; finetuning and perturbations of flat bands; flat bands and disorder/nonlinearity; flat bands and non-hermitian; flat bands and topology; novel experimental platforms; flat bands and applications
Optical 3D Sensing Technology and Application
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2036 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical 3D sensing; 3D reconstruction; 3D data processing
Free Space Optics-Based 6G Non-terrestrial Networks submission deadline 20 Jun 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1297 | Submission Open
Keywords: free space optics; 6G communication; non-terrestrial networks; network flying platforms; aerial communications
Space Laser Communication and Networking Technology
edited by Zhi Liu
submission deadline 20 Jun 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 659 | Submission Open
Keywords: space laser communication; amplification and forwarding technology; optical routing technology; all-optical switching and wavelength conversion technology; beam adaptive correction technology; efficient fiber coupling technology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
Photonic State Tomography: Methods and Applications
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7470 | Submission Open
Keywords: quantum state tomography; photonic tomography; quantum information encoding; entangled photons; numerical methods
Microwave Photonic Techniques
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5525 | Submission Open
Keywords: microwave photonics signal generation; microwave photonics signal processing; microwave photonics filter; microwave photonic links; microwave photonic sensor; THz photonics; integrated microwave photonics; microwave photonics radar; microwave photonics for optical communications; intelligent microwave photonics
Optical Remote Sensor Design and Development
edited by , Donglin Xue and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4641 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical remote sensor; spectrometer; optical system design; optical manufacturing and testing; opto-mechanical structure; optical surveying; infrared photoelectricity technology
Optical Measurement Systems
edited by Shuming Yang, Yuanliu Chen and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4415 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical measurement; optical metrology; optical imaging; optical sensors; optical instrumentation; optical microscopy
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems)
Integrated Waveguide-Based Photonic Devices
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2669 | Submission Open
Keywords: integrated photonics; photonic integrated devices; planar lightwave circuits; ultra-low-loss waveguides; microresonators; silicon photonics; silicon nitride integrated photonics; lithium niobate integrated photonics; nonlinear integrated photonics; mid-infrared integrated photonics
High Power Fiber Laser and Amplifiers
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1914 | Submission Open
Keywords: high-power fiber laser and amplifier; fiber design and fabrication; fiber grating; pump combiner; mode dynamics; stimulated Raman scattering; stimulated Brillouin scattering; fiber laser application
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Advances in Structured Light
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1623 | Submission Open
Keywords: structured light; vortex beams; vector beams; non-diffracting beams; accelerating beams; partially coherent beams; spatiotemporal beams
Optical Modulation
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1260 | Submission Open
Keywords: electro-optic modulator; electro-absorption modulator; integrated modulator; spatial light modulator; electro-optic frequency comb; intensity modulation direct detection transmission; coherent optical transmission; transmitter
Low-Dimensional Optical Materials: Optical Properties and Applications
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 818 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical materials; optical properties; optical devices
Specialty Optical Fibers and Their High-Power Applications
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 783 | Submission Open
Keywords: specialty optical fibers design; specialty optical fibers fabrication; photonic crystal; microstructured; and hollow core fibers; large mode area fiber; fiber lasers and amplifiers
Optical Sensors, Measurements, and Metrology
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 462 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical sensor; accuracy; uncertainty; laser interferometer; waveguide sensors; fiber optical sensors; wavefront sensors
Power Scaling of Semiconductor Lasers
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | Viewed by 158 | Submission Open
Silicon Photonics Packaging: Connecting Photonic Integrated Circuits with the Outside World submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | Viewed by 140 | Submission Open
Keywords: Si photonics; photonic packaging; co-packaged optics; optical fiber; semiconductor laser; micro-optics; MEMS
Nonlinear Optics in Perovskite Materials
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2023 | Viewed by 133 | Submission Open
Keywords: perovskite materials; ultrafast dynamics; stimulated emission; lasing; fiber laser; nonlinear refraction; nonlinear absorption; harmonic generation; optoelectronic devices
THz Imaging and Spectroscopy
edited by and
submission deadline 1 Jul 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3066 | Submission Open
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Photonics Sensors submission deadline 10 Jul 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2665 | Submission Open
Keywords: fiber optic sensors; interferometric sensors; resonance-based sensors; plasmonic sensors; fluorescence; luminescence; absorption; spectroscopy; physical sensors; mechanical sensors; chemical sensors and biosensors; nanostructured materials and coatings; surface functionalization procedures; microfluidics; lab on chip; sensor packaging; sensor interrogation and instrumentation
Nonlinear and Ultrafast Optics: Fundamentals and Applications submission deadline 10 Jul 2023 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2499 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical nonlinearity; high-power laser sources; laser resonators; beam guiding; fiber communications; photonics; plasmonics; nonlinear optoelectronic materials; ultrafast laser-matter interaction; filamentation; supercontinuum; THz and microwave-field generation; nonlinear atmospheric/oceanic optics; remote sensing; lightning control; Earth-space laser communications; space debris removal; biomedical optics; ultrafast quantum science
Perovskite Materials and Optoelectronic Applications
edited by
submission deadline 10 Jul 2023 | Viewed by 124 | Submission Open
Keywords: perovskite solar cells; novel perovskite materials; perovskite LEDs; thin film; applications of perovskite; theoretical modeling of perovskite; perovskite devices; perovskite quantum dots
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
Emerging Research in Optoelectronic Signal Processing
edited by
submission deadline 13 Jul 2023 | Viewed by 77 | Submission Open
Optical Fiber Physical and Mechanical Sensors
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jul 2023 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3271 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
High-NA Focused Laser Pulses: From Nanophotonics till Strong-Field Phenomena
edited by and Yulia Gulina
submission deadline 15 Jul 2023 | 1 articles | Viewed by 312 | Submission Open
Keywords: pulsed lasers; high-NA focusing; nano- and micromodification; nanosensing; nanophotonics; near-wavelength nonlinear effects; strong-field optical phenomena
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