Advances in Optical Field Modulation Techniques and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 625
Special Issue Editors
Interests: partially coherent beams; coherence and polarization optics; coherence measurement; optical imaging and optical encryption
Interests: partially coherent beams; optical coherence; polarization; measurement; atmospheric propagation; coherence orbital angular momentum
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the call for papers for our forthcoming Special Issue of Photonics, “Advances in Optical Field Modulation Techniques and Applications”. Structured light, with its multiple dimensions and degrees of freedom, has proven to be a potent tool in various applications, opening up vast possibilities for innovation and applications. Optical coherence and polarization manipulation are at the forefront of research in optics, offering extensive capabilities in multi-dimensional information encoding, transfer, storage, and communications.
Optical coherence has been shown to effectively suppress speckle noise and reduce beam wander and scintillation during light–matter interactions due to its feature of low coherence. Unlike conventional methods that control the deterministic qualities of fully coherent light, optical coherence structure engineering involves the modulation of the second-order statistical properties of random light. Through tailoring the spatial coherence structure, it has been demonstrated that a partially coherent beam can exhibit extraordinary propagation features, including self-shaping, self-focusing, self-splitting, and self-reconstruction abilities in free space. On the other hand, polarization, as another intrinsic property of a light field, plays a crucial role in determining light beam propagation and light–matter interactions. In the last several decades, the theory of optical coherence and polarization has been effectively developed, and many unique physical phenomena have been established through the manipulation of coherence and polarization. The combination of coherence and polarization can produce many novel and beneficial effects and has allowed the applications of partially coherent and partially polarization light to be extended to sub-Rayleigh optical imaging, robust information transmission, particle trapping, beam shaping, optical encryption, and optical measurement, computing, and sensing.
This Special Issue will discuss the latest advances in coherence and polarization manipulating, measurement, propagation, and applications, and the subsequent development of new light-field manipulation principles and effective solutions to address various challenges in practical applications for partially coherent beams and polarization beams.
We invite researchers, academics, and industry professionals to contribute their insights and findings to this Special Issue, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange in this exciting area of study.
Please submit your manuscripts for consideration and join us in advancing the boundaries of what is possible with laser field manipulation.
Dr. Yonglei Liu
Dr. Fei Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- light-field manipulating
- partially coherent beams
- optical coherence
- optical polarization
- interaction between light and matter
- optical measurement and propagation
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