Photonic Engines for Innovations

Dear Colleagues,

Photonics has become a transformative technology at the intersection of ultrafast physics, information processing, and advanced communications. Its ability to manipulate electromagnetic waves with exceptional bandwidth, precision, and reconfigurability places it at the forefront of next-generation system design. Recent advances in integrated photonics, microwave photonic components, and hybrid electronic–photonic architectures have pushed performance well beyond conventional electronic limits, enabling ultrawide-band processing, low-loss distribution, high sensitivity, and real-time operation at unprecedented speeds.

These developments are driving rapid innovation across a wide range of practical applications. Microwave photonics is reshaping beam-forming architectures for agile and scalable antenna systems, while photonic signal processing is opening new possibilities for high-sensitivity sensing and ultra-high-bandwidth communications. At the same time, photonics is becoming a powerful platform for new computing paradigms, with photonic neural networks, reservoir computing, and ultrafast correlators enabling sub-nanosecond, real-time machine learning. Photonic approaches to noise cancellation, adaptive filtering, and artificial intelligence are likewise setting new performance benchmarks once thought unreachable.

This Special Issue presents cutting-edge research that highlights the novel uses of photonics as a foundational engine for advances in beamforming, signal processing, sensing, computing, neural networks, ultra-high-speed machine learning, and intelligent systems. By showcasing both fundamental progress and practical implementations, we aim to illuminate the remarkable potential of photonics to drive the next wave of scientific and engineering innovation.

Dr. Lam Anh Bui
Guest Editor

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