Photonics

Advances in Free-Space Optical Communications

edited by

and Jian Huang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1252 | Submission Open

Keywords: free space optical communication; acquisition; tracking and pointing; laser propagation; adaptive optics; free space optical network

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

Advanced Research in Quantum Optics

edited by

Wei Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 963 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum optics; quantum sensing; quantum network

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

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 905 | 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

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

edited by Kehao Zhao and

Kevin P. Chen

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 679 | Submission Open

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

Novel Developments in Optoelectronic Materials and Devices

edited by

Xufeng Jing

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 667 | Submission Open

Keywords: optoelectronic materials; advanced photonic devices; perovskite semiconductors; flexible electronics; sustainable optoelectronics; metamaterials; metasurface

(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 562 | 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)

Photodetectors for Next-Generation Imaging and Sensing Systems

edited by

Changqing Cao

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 530 | 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 441 | 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)

Deep Ultraviolet Detection Materials and Devices

edited by

Qiang Li

,

Mingsheng Xu

and Weizong Xu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 351 | 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)

Novel Biomedical Optical Spectroscopy, Microscopy and Imaging

edited by Pengfei Liu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 205 | Submission Open

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

Advanced Photonic Sensing Technologies for Optical Fiber Devices

edited by Shuhui Liu and

Shun Wang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 161 | 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)

Advancements in High-Power Optical Fibers and Fiber Lasers

edited by

Fengyun Li

and

Chun Zhang

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: narrow-linewidth; tandem-pumping; stimulated Brillouin scattering; stimulated Raman scattering; transverse modal instability; nonlinear optics; near diffraction limit; fiber Bragg gratings; tilted fiber Bragg gratings

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

Emerging Optical Imaging Techniques for Biological Research

edited by Sicong He

submission deadline 30 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 91 | 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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7114 | 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 2039 | 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 1903 | 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 1649 | 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 79 | 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 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4920 | 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 134 | 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)

New Perspectives in Biomedical Optics and Optical Imaging

edited by

Lin Huang

, Xiong Wang and Shuangli Liu

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8948 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical imaging; terahertz imaging; photoacoustic imaging; photobiomodulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics)

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 4219 | 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 2137 | 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)

Bound States in the Continuum in Photonics, Plasmonics, and Terahertz Technology

edited by

Zhuo Wang

and Fu Deng

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 891 | Submission Open

Keywords: bound states in the continuum; optical field enhancement; light-matter interaction; polarization manipulation; metamaterial; nonlinear effect; photonic device; plasmonic device; terahertz device

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

Optical Metasurface: Applications in Sensing and Imaging

edited by

Sandeep Kumar Chamoli

,

Qi Chen

and

Subhash Singh

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 804 | 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 and

Jijun Feng

submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 318 | 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 244 | 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 143 | 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 83 | 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 447 | 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 3764 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1216 | 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)

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

edited by Vladimir L. Kalashnikov

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 140 | 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)

Digital Holography and 3D Imaging Technologies

edited by Qiang Li, Zi Wang and

Huan Deng

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 85 | 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

Integrated Waveguide-Based Photonic Devices

edited by

Qiancheng Zhao

and

Li Shen

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 17426 | 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

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

Recent Advancements in Tunable Laser Technology

edited by Dário Machado Garcia

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4510 | Submission Open

Keywords: tunable lasers; optical communication; coupled resonator; spectral control; optical tuning; laser spectroscopy; laser devices

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

Advances in Free-Electron Radiation Sources and Particle Accelerators: Current Research and Future Directions

edited by Weihao Liu, Javier Resta-Lopez,

Yelong Wei

and David Alesini

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4421 | Submission Open

Keywords: free-electron beam; electromagnetic radiation; light sources; laser-driven particle acceleration; laser free-electron beam interaction

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

The State of the Art of Photonics in Europe

edited by Grégory Barbillon and

Carlos Marques

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2410 | Submission Open

Keywords: photonic crystals; nano-photonics; plasmonics; nano-plasmonics; photonic devices; plasmonic devices; biophotonics

Advances in Micro and Nano-Photonics: Emerging Materials and Applications

edited by Nikita Toropov, Aneesh Veluthandath and Maria Mukhina

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2202 | Submission Open

Keywords: nanoparticle; microparticle; emission; laser; chirality; anisotropy; sensor; diagnostics; biomedicine; light-matter interaction; optical manipulation

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

Novel Techniques and Applications of Ophthalmic Optics

edited by

Jiahe Cui

and Zhijian Zhao

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1657 | Submission Open

Keywords: ophthalmic optics; ophthalmic imaging; ophthalmic surgery; ophthalmology; vision; OCT; adaptive optics; virtual reality; augmented reality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics)

Optical Signal Processing for Advanced Communication Systems

edited by Weile Zhai

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1207 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical fiber; microwave photonics; communication system; integrated sensing and communication; secure communication

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

Optical Fiber Sensors: Shedding More Light with Machine Learning

edited by Koustav Dey,

Nikolai Ushakov

, Sourabh Roy and Elena De Vita

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1115 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning; deep learning; fiber gratings; sensor signal processing; fiber optic interferometers; multimode interference (MMI); physical; chemical and bio sensors; distributed fiber optic sensors; fiber optic specklegram sensors; fiber vortex sensors

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

Emerging Technologies and Applications in Fiber Optic Sensing

edited by

Rui Zhou

and

Chuanxin Teng

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1115 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs); distributed acoustic sensing (DAS); distributed temperature sensing (DTS); fiber lasers; fiber optic devices; specialty optical fiber; fiber micromachining techniques; smart sensing systems; industrial IoT

Intelligent Photonics: Advances and Application

edited by Peng Xie, Ruikai Xue, Yiqing Shu and Xiao Yu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent photonics; photonic information processing; photonic chip; photonic ai; optical neural network

Advances in Biomedical Optical Imaging: Advances, Technologies, and Emerging Applications

edited by Naresh Kumar Ravichandran and

Ruchire Eranga Wijesinghe

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical coherence tomography (OCT); multiphoton microscopy (MPM); widefield and confocal fluorescence microscopy (FM); photoacoustic imaging (PAI); hyper- and multispectral imaging (HSI; MSI); structured illumination microscopy (SIM); super-resolution optical imaging; raman and Brillouin imaging; label-free and functional optical imaging; artificial intelligence and computational imaging; optical biosensors and biophotonics; clinical and preclinical optical imaging; multimodal and hybrid imaging systems; endoscopic and miniaturized optical imaging; cell and molecular imaging; 3D tumor and cancer imaging and analysis; advances in biomarkers; real-time optical imaging for surgery and diagnosis

Exploring the Optical Solitons in Fiber Optics: Fundamental Concepts, Computational Approaches, and Broad Applications

edited by Usman Younas and Shafqat Ur Rehman

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonlinear optics; soliton dynamics; nonlinear wave phenomena

Emerging Trends in Optical Fiber Technology

edited by

Ye Tian

and Xixin Wang

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 120 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical fiber; optical fiber communication; optical fiber sensing; optical signal processing; quantum communication; integrated optical chip; photonic crystal fiber

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

Fiber Optic Sensors: Science and Applications, 2nd Edition

edited by

Qinduan Zhang

,

Zongliang Wang

and

Shuai Qu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 105 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber optic sensors; sensor applications; optical fiber devices; principles of fiber optic sensors; precision measurement; distributed fiber sensors; optical signal detection

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

Advancements in Optical and Acoustic Signal Processing

edited by Hongna Zhu and Zhengliang Hu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical signal processing; optical sensing; artificial intelligence and machine learning in optical information processing; acoustic signal processing; acoustic signal sensors; nonlinear acoustics; laser ultrasonics; acousto-optic interaction; acoustic inversion; physics-informed neural networks; array signal processing; stability analysis

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

Advances in Levitated Optomechanics

edited by Xudong Yu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open

Keywords: levitated optomechanics; optical tweezers; paul trap; magnetic levitation; feedback cooling; quantum back-action; high-precision sensing; macroscopic quantum phenomenon; quantum gravity tests; dark matter detection; nonlinear dynamics; stochastic motion; multi-particle array

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

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