Photonics

Emerging Trends in Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Research

edited by

and Tiago A. Morgado

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 15081 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonlinear metamaterials and metasurfaces; reconfigurable and programmable (smart) metamaterials and metasurfaces; space-time modulated structures; metamaterials and metasurfaces for enhanced imaging capabilities; active metamaterials and metasurfaces; metamaterials and metasurfaces for biomedical applications; metamaterials and metasurfaces for wavefront control; topological metamaterials and metasurfaces; extreme wave phenomena in metamaterials and metasurfaces; metamaterial antennas and sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Optical Sensors for Advanced Biomedical Applications

edited by

Susana O. Catarino

and

Graça Minas

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2423 | Submission Open

Keywords: diagnostics and therapeutics; integrated optics; lab-on-a-chip; microelectronics; optics; sensors; modeling and simulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)

Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing: Techniques and Applications

edited by Kun Zhu, Huan Wu and Bin Zhou

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 904 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber optic sensors; distributed optical fiber sensing; Rayleigh; Raman; and Brillouin scattering; sensing signal processing; machine learning; artificial intelligence; infrastructure monitoring; applications in geoscience

Advances in Fiber Laser Technologies

edited by Yao-Yao Qi and Huihui Cheng

submission deadline 10 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 335 | Submission Open

Keywords: mode-locking; Q-switching; high-power fiber laser; fiber device; vortex fiber laser

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Light Emitting Devices: Science and Applications

edited by

Konthoujam James Singh

submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open

Keywords: light-emitting diodes (LEDs); quantum light sources; multi-color emission; 2D semiconductors; photonics applications; single-photon emitters; nanostructured LEDs; optoelectronic devices; visible light communication; advanced light sources

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Emerging Trends in Optical Fiber Sensors and Sensing Techniques

edited by

Yang Lu

and

Qi Wang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 18021 | Submission Open

Keywords: distributed acoustic/vibration sensing; distributed temperature/strain sensing; hybrid distributed fiber-optic sensing; applications of distributed fiber-optic sensing; application of AI to distributed fiber-optic sensing; resonant fiber-optic biochemical sensors; fiber-optic displacement sensors; fiber-optic gas sensors; lossy fiber-optic sensors; fiber-optic point sensor applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)

High-Power Fiber Lasers

edited by

Xiaolin Wang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 14083 | Submission Open

Keywords: ytterbium-doped fiber laser; fiber laser oscillator; fiber laser amplifier; multi cladding fiber; transverse mode instability; nonlinear effect; single-frequency fiber laser; narrow-linewidth fiber laser; pulsed fiber laser; quasi-continuous-wave fiber laser

(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)

Recent Progress in Integrated Photonics

edited by

Xiaoyan Zhou

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 4848 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated photonics; photonic integration; quantum photonics; photonic devices; photonic materials; telecommunications; hybrid integration; data processing; sensing technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Liquid Crystals in Photonics II

edited by

Qian Yang

,

Yannanqi Li

and Tiegang Lin

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4422 | Submission Open

Keywords: liquid crystals; photonics; AR/VR; LCD; optical communication; sensors; laser technology; electronic devices; computational optics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Rare Earth Doped Crystals

edited by Huanrong Fan, Faizan Raza and

Yanpeng Zhang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2209 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonlinear optics; quantum optics; rare-earth-doped crystals; luminous micro-/nano-materials; rare-earth-doped single-particle crystals; photonics; information optics; nonlinear quantum optics; the interaction between lasers and matter; pulsed lasers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Latest Advances in Optical Diffraction, Imaging and Display

edited by Chenrun Feng,

Yannanqi Li

and Zhiyong Yang

submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1079 | Submission Open

Keywords: diffraction optical elements (DOEs); meta-surfaces for imaging and display; virtual reality and augmented reality; nano-photonics and nanolithography; holography and fourier optics; metamaterials; light scattering; phase modulation and laser beam shaping; wavefront sensing; optical microscopy; differential interference contrast (DIC) microscope; coherent diffraction imaging/phase contrast imaging/computational imaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)

Research, Development and Application of Raman Scattering Technology

edited by Haisheng Su and

Enming You

submission deadline 27 Sep 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7440 | Submission Open

Keywords: surface-enhanced and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy; coherent Raman spectroscopy; resonance Raman spectroscopy; biological applications of Raman spectroscopy; theoretical and computational advances in Raman spectroscopy; Raman sensing; Raman optical activity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)

Advances and Applications of Laser Measurements

edited by Cheng Lu

submission deadline 28 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3651 | Submission Open

Keywords: laser measurement; interferometry; LiDAR; optical metrology; spectral analysis; structured-light

(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)

Photonics Metamaterials: Processing and Applications

edited by Feng Cheng and Yao Wang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 16 articles | Viewed by 16580 | Submission Open

Keywords: metamaterials; nanofabrication; plasmonics; photonic device; imaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Research on Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers

edited by Nasser Peyghambarian and Xiushan Zhu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7636 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber lasers; rare-earth-doped fibers; continuous-wave fiber lasers; pulsed fiber lasers; mode-locked fiber lasers; visible fiber lasers; upconversion fiber lasers; mid-infrared fiber lasers; fiber-laser-pumped nonlinear conversion lasers; single-frequency fiber lasers; multicore fiber lasers; phosphate fiber lasers; germanate fiber lasers; fluoride fiber lasers; chalcogenide fiber lasers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)

Thermal Radiation and Micro-/Nanophotonics

edited by

Zao Yi

and

Xiaohu Wu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5117 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanostructures; metamaterials; micro/nano-optics; plasmonics; applications of micro/nano-optics

Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing Technology

edited by Fei Liu and Yi Shi

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4393 | Submission Open

Keywords: distributed optical fiber sensors; optical time-domain reflectometry; optical frequency-domain reflectometry; spatial resolution; sensing range; modulation/demodulation; signal processing

Advances in Solid-State Laser Technology and Applications

edited by Zhen Qiao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3360 | Submission Open

Keywords: solid-state lasers; high-power lasers; pulsed lasers; laser materials; structured light laser; materials processing; laser medical treatment; laser metrology; information processing; quantum optics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)

Emerging Trends in Fiber Optic Sensing

edited by Haiyang Wang and Guowen An

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2618 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber sensing; distribued fiber sensing; optical sensing; laser sensing; signal processing; grating-based sensors; manufacturing of sensor devices; structural helath monitoring; temperature/pressure /acoustic/strain sensors; applications of sensors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)

Biophotonics in Medical, Diagnosis, Health Monitoring, and Environmental Applications

edited by Kehao Zhao and

Kevin P. Chen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1709 | Submission Open

Keywords: immunophotonics; neurophotonics; optogenetics; photonics in cardiology; ophthalmic technologies

Advanced Research in Quantum Optics

edited by

Wei Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1634 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum optics; quantum sensing; quantum network

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Photonics and Technologies)

Innovative Optical Sensing—Materials, Devices and Applications

edited by Ning Li and

Yihong Wang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1512 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical sensing; semiconductors; solution-processable devices; detectors; optoelectronic performances; photoresponse spectrum; multifunctional optoelectronics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Advances in Optical Imaging

edited by

Walter Furlan

,

Juan A. Monsoriu

and Francisco Misael Munõz-Pérez

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1316 | Submission Open

Keywords: diffraction optical elements (DOEs); imaging techniques; three-dimensional imaging; virtual reality and augmented reality; optical microscopy; computational optical imaging; digital holography; meta-surfaces for imaging and display; coherent diffraction; phase contrast and computational imaging; holography and Fourier optics; optical coherence tomography; adaptive optics; confocal microscopy; image processing; laser scanning imaging; fluorescence imaging; confocal microscopy

Photodetectors for Next-Generation Imaging and Sensing Systems

edited by

Changqing Cao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1045 | Submission Open

Keywords: photodetectors; two-dimensional materil; imaging technique; sensing system; laser technology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Research and Applications of Optical Fibers

edited by

Kang Ying

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 729 | Submission Open

Keywords: active fiber; single-mode fiber; multimode fiber; optical fiber device; optical fiber communication; optical fiber sensing; optical fiber transmittance; laser amplification; photonic crystal fiber; nonlinear fiber and application

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Optical Wireless Communications for 3D Ubiquitous Intelligent 6G Networks and Beyond

edited by

Farah Mahdi Al-Sallami

,

Sujan Rajbhandari

and Chedlia Ben Naila

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 633 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical wireless communications; underwater optical wireless communications; visible light communications and LiFi; vehicular optical wireless communications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)

Deep Ultraviolet Detection Materials and Devices

edited by

Qiang Li

,

Mingsheng Xu

and Weizong Xu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 618 | Submission Open

Keywords: III-V semiconductors (GaN; etc.); SiC materials and devices; AlN crystals and templates; BN growth and fundamental properties ; heterostructure physics ; first-principles calculation; deep UV photodetectors; diamonds materials and devices; gallium oxide materials and devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Advanced Photonic Sensing Technologies for Optical Fiber Devices

edited by Shuhui Liu and

Shun Wang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 565 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel fiber structures and materials; environmental; industrial; and biomedical sensing applications; quantum sensing technologies using optical fibers; distributed and multiplexed sensing; nonlinear and multifunctional fiber sensors; fiber-based LIDAR and remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Novel Biomedical Optical Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Imaging

edited by Pengfei Liu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 272 | Submission Open

Keywords: microscopy techniques; imaging system; optical diagnostics and theranostics; AI in optical imaging

Emerging Optical Imaging Techniques for Biological Research

edited by Sicong He

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 155 | Submission Open

Keywords: microscopy techniques; fluorescence microscopy; super-resolution imaging; correlative microscopy; multiphoton microscopy; photoacoustic imaging; image analysis; optical probes; label-free imaging; multimodal imaging

Photonic Crystals: Physics and Devices, 2nd Edition

edited by

Feng Wu

and

Shuyuan Xiao

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8204 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanophotonics; topological photonics; photonic crystals; photonic band gaps; metamaterials; metasurfaces; subwavelength gratings; resonances; bound states in the continuum; Goos– Hä nchen shift; photonic spin Hall effect; polaritons; devices

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Microwave Photonics: Science and Applications

edited by Zhike Zhang and Hui Gao

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3038 | Submission Open

Keywords: microwave photonics; optoelectronic devices; photonic integration optoelectronic package

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)

Advances in Structured Light: Propagation, Scattering, and Applications

edited by

Mingjian Cheng

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2665 | Submission Open

Keywords: structured light; propagation; scattering; optical turbulence; light– matter interactions; imaging techniques; optical communications; optical trapping; laser material processing; quantum information science

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)

Advancements in Terahertz Metamaterial Optics, Devices, and Applications

edited by

Longhai Liu

, Zhang Zhang and

Chenglong Zheng

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2199 | Submission Open

Keywords: plasmonics; THz metasurfaces; biosensing and biosensors; optofluidics; THz photodetectors; dynamic modulators; terahertz non-destructive test

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)

Optical Thin Films: From Materials to Applications

edited by

Alexandre Botas

submission deadline 10 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 115 | Submission Open

Keywords: thin films; optical materials; optical devices; luminescence; light emission

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Optical Imaging and Measurements: 2nd Edition

edited by Zixin Zhao,

Feifei Gu

and

Gaopeng Zhang

submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6405 | Submission Open

Keywords: three-dimensional imaging; phase imaging; polarization imaging; computational optical imaging; optical coherence tomography; digital holography; speckle interferometry; optical triangulation measurements

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)

Optical Components: Science and Applications

edited by

Francesco Reda

and

Stefano Luigi Oscurato

submission deadline 17 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 163 | Submission Open

Keywords: computer-generated holography; spatial light modulators; design methodologies of optical components; phase retrieval and inverse design strategies; fabrication techniques of novel components; flat optics; quantum nanophotonics; integrated optics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Advances in 3OM: Opto-Mechatronics, Opto-Mechanics, and Optical Metrology, 2nd Edition

edited by

Virgil-Florin Duma

, Constantin Daniel Comeagă, Marija Strojnik and

Guillermo Garcia-Torales

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4873 | Submission Open

Keywords: 3OM; opto-mechatronics; opto-mechanics; optical metrology; optical devices; optical systems; laser scanners; imaging techniques; optical coherence tomography (OCT); non-destructive testing (NDT); analytic approaches; numerical simulations; finite element analysis (FEA); experimental studies; sensors and control structures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Quantum Optics: From Fundamental Research to Technological Applications

edited by

Georgi Gary Rozenman

and

Satyendra Mishra

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2659 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum optics; light– matter interactions; quantum information processing; quantum technology; quantum communication; quantum sensing; quantum computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Quantum Photonics and Technologies)

Optical Metasurface: Applications in Sensing and Imaging

edited by

Sandeep Kumar Chamoli

,

Qi Chen

and

Subhash Singh

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 866 | Submission Open

Keywords: metasurface-enhanced imaging; metasurface-based sensing; biomedical metasurfaces; optical computing with metasurfaces; integrated metasurface photonics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Integrated Optical Biosensors

edited by

Guoqiang Li

,

Jijun Feng

and Yuxuan Ren

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 407 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated optical sensors; integrated optical biosensors; integrated optical imaging devices; optical transducers for biosensing; biorecognition elements; microfabrication and miniaturization; intelligent signal processing; optical sensors for medical diagnosis; optical sensors for environmental monitoring; optical sensors for food safety; optical sensors for biotechnology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)

The Latest Applications and Developments of Photonic Crystal Materials

edited by Shan Liu

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 318 | Submission Open

Keywords: photonic crystals; photonic bandgap; sensors; integrated photonics; energy harvesting; optical communications; nanofabrication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Recent Advances in Fiber Laser Technology

edited by Xiaohong Hu

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 214 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber laser; low-noise fiber lasers; fiber optical frequency comb; power and energy scaling techniques; multi-core and multimode fiber; mid-IR and visible fiber laser; Ttnable fiber laser; supercontinuum; narrow linewidth

(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)

Laser Surface Processing: From Fundamentals to Applications

edited by P.J. Bryanston-Cross

submission deadline 27 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 107 | Submission Open

Keywords: laser materials processing; optical materials treatment; laser-induced modifications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)

Design and Applications of Plasmonic Metasurfaces

edited by

Yi Xu

, Zhuochao Wang and

Yuting Zhang

submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 468 | Submission Open

Keywords: plasmonic metasurfaces; surface plasmon; wavefront manipulation; hybrid plasmonic– dielectric metasurfaces; plasmonic sensing; two-dimensional materials; bound states in the continuum; electromagnetic surface modes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)

Advances in Polymer Optical Fiber Sensors: Materials, Designs and Applications

edited by

Xuehao Hu

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4630 | Submission Open

Keywords: polymer; polymer optical fibers; fiber sensors; surface Plasmon resonance; gratings; optical time-domain reflectometry

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Optical Wireless Communication

edited by

Jianyang Shi

and

Junwen Zhang

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2196 | Submission Open

Keywords: visible light communication (VLC); infrared communication; ultraviolet communication; free space optical communication (FSO); modulation techniques; channel modeling; system design; photodetectors; optical receivers; signal processing; vehicular communication; underwater optical wireless communication; space optical communication; inter-satellite communication; satellite ground communication

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)

Digital Holography and 3D Imaging Technologies

edited by Qiang Li, Zi Wang and

Huan Deng

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 198 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital holography; 3D display technologies; holographic 3D display; light field 3D display; integral imaging; computational imaging and processing; augmented reality display; near-eye display; metasurface; liquid crystal; liquid lens; real-time rendering; 3D visualization

Ultrashort Pulse Lasers for Sensing, Environmental Monitoring, and Biomedical Applications

edited by Vladimir L. Kalashnikov

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 178 | Submission Open

Keywords: ultrashort pulse laser pulses; spectral supercontinuum generation; ultrashort pulse spectroscopy; ultrafast laser material processing; femtosecond laser-assisted surgery; ultrashort lasers in biology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)

Holographic Information Processing

edited by

Xianfeng Xu

,