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Semiconductor Lasers: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Perspectives

edited by Yongqiang Ning and

Xiaoying He

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 865 | Submission Open

Keywords: VCSEL; semiconductor lasers; integrated lasers; semiconductor disk lasers; dynamics and stability

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

Advances in Interferometric Optics and Applications

edited by Shanzhi Tang and

Ruiying Liao

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel method for optical interferometer; laser heterodyne/homodyne interferometer; grating interferometer; picometer/nanometer-level dimensional metrology; interferometric optical component; optomechanical design; optic– electronic detection techniques; data processing

Nanoplasmonics: Emerging Field of Nanophotonics

edited by Weijie Kong and Guoyu Luo

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 200 | Submission Open

Keywords: plasmonic imaging; plasmonic lithography; plasmonic fabrication; metasurface; metamaterial; deep ultraviolet plasmonic; extreme ultraviolet plasmonic; two-dimensional materials; nonlinear plasmonic; quantum plasmonic; trapping; waveguides; spectroscopy and sensing; microfluidics

Organic Optoelectronic Materials and Their Applications

edited by Xixiang Zhu

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 173 | Submission Open

Keywords: organic; perovskite; flexible; light-emitting diodes; photovoltaics; optoelectronic material

Application and Development of Optoelectronic Oscillators (OEOs) in Microwave Photonics

edited by

Gefeson Mendes Pacheco

and

Qidi Liu

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open

Keywords: optoelectronic oscillators; optoelectronic oscillator sensors; optical RF signal processing; low phase noise; microwave photonics; and radio over fibers

Recent Advances in Quantum Interferometry, Imaging and Sensing

edited by Fabrizio Sgobba and

Bostjan Batagelj

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 99 | Submission Open

Keywords: single-photon detectors; optical coherence tomography in the low-photon regime; fiber-optic spectroscopy and sensing in the low-photon regime; quantum optics; quantum cryptography; entangled states preparation and distribution; nonlinear optical techniques for sensing; ultrafast laser-based sensing in the low-photon regime; quantum metrology and interferometry; biochemical sensing using photonics; integrated quantum photonics; remote quantum-based sensing; optical instrumentation and measurement; photonic devices for sensing and measurement

Advances and Applications of Laser Measurements

edited by Cheng Lu

submission deadline 28 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 828 | 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)

Emerging Trends in Optical Fiber Sensors and Sensing Techniques

edited by

Yang Lu

and

Qi Wang

submission deadline 30 Jan 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5359 | 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)

Nonlinear Optics and Hyperspectral Polarization Imaging

edited by

Rui-Pin Chen

, Yuhua Li,

Xu Yang

and Sibghat Ullah

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 14175 | Submission Open

Keywords: nonlinear optics; integrated optics; optical vortex; structured light; laser measurement; hyperspectral imaging; polarization imaging; laser imaging; deep learning

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

Latest Papers Related to OWPT 2024 on the Topics of Devices, Components and Systems

edited by

Tomoyuki Miyamoto

and

Motoharu Matsuura

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2495 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical wireless power transmission; laser power beaming; power over fiber; OWPT subsystem; OWPT system

(This special issue belongs to the Section New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems)

The State of the Art of Photonics in Europe

edited by Grégory Barbillon and

Carlos Marques

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1586 | Submission Open

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

Recent Advances in Infrared Photodetection and Imaging

edited by Kun Ba

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 742 | Submission Open

Keywords: infrared photodetection; infrared imaging system and mechanism; infrared photoelectricity technology; novel infrared materials and system; dual-/multi-color infrared photodetection; future development of infrared photodetection; application of infrared photodetection

Current Advances on Applications of Optics and Photonics – Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics, AOP2024

edited by

Manuel Filipe P. C. M. Costa

and

José Benito Vázquez Dorrío

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 524 | Submission Open

Optical Fiber Communication: Challenges and Opportunities

edited by

Zhouyi Hu

Yang Hong

and Xing Ouyang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 242 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber– optic communications; optical networks; digital and optical signal processing; optical devices and components; optical subsystems and systems.

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

Advances in Optometric and Ophthalmic Technologies: Innovations and Applications

edited by

Francisco Javier Povedano-Montero

Juan E. Cedrún-Sánchez

and

Ricardo Bernardez-Vilaboa

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 230 | Submission Open

Keywords: eye care technologies; optical coherence tomography (OCT); telemedicine in optometry' optometry

Optical Sensors and Devices

edited by

Zhaoyong Wang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 228 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical fiber sensor; optical spectrum; distributed fiber sensing; optical remote sensing; optical scattering; photoelectric detection

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

Emerging Topics in Freeform Optics

edited by Zexiao Li and

Zixuan Wang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 172 | Submission Open

Keywords: freeform optical design& modification; micro/nanoforming; high precision machining of freeform surface; micro/nano optics and photonics; metrology & characterization of freeform surfaces; micro-featured surfaces; micro/nanomachining modeling; simulation of optical manufacturing; optical machining & measurement; process monitoring and quality control; ultra-precision machining; other technologies sssociated with freeform optics

Integrated Optical Biosensors

edited by Guoqiang Li and

Jijun Feng

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 170 | 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

Machine Learning in Photonics: Progress, Challenges, and Future Prospects

edited by Jiachen Wan and Yue Yao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 133 | Submission Open

Keywords: photonics; optics; biophotonics; biomedical imaging; machine learning; deep learning

Advances in LiDAR Technology

edited by Dongsong Sun and Yuli Han

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR; wind and temperature measurement; middle and upper atmosphere; instrumentation and observations; machine learning

Advances in Optical Imaging

edited by

Walter Furlan

Juan A. Monsoriu

and Francisco Misael Munõz-Pérez

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 108 | 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

Optical Computing: The State of the Art and Future Prospects

edited by Bijie Bai

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical signal processing; integrated photonics; coherent photonics; multiwavelength photonics; ultrafast processing; low-power signal processing; brain-inspired optical computation; photonic neural networks; photonic AI accelerators; reservoir computing; photonic TPUs; vector-by-matrix multiplication photonic engine

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

Nonlinear Optics and Optical Parametric Oscillators: From Fundamentals to Cutting-Edge Research

edited by Wange Song

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 63 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical parametric oscillators; ultrafast optics; integrated photonics

Optical Light Propagation and Communication Through Turbulent Medium

edited by Mert Bayraktar and Kholoud Elmabruk

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 878 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical communication; turbulent medium; atmospheric turbulence; free-space optical communication; adaptive optics; underwater optical communication; tissue turbulence; jet engine turbulence; wavefront sensing and control; scintillation; beam wandering; laser communication; photonics; light propagation; adaptive optics systems

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

Progress in Hyperspectral Imaging and Future Prospects

edited by

Minjie Wan

, Yimian Dai and Zhuang Zhao

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 185 | Submission Open

Keywords: multispectral imaging; hyperspectral imaging; ultraspectral imaging; fourier transform hyperspectral imaging; hyperspectral computed tomography imaging; hadamard-transform-based hyperspectral imaging; compressive aperture snapshot spectral imaging; metasurface design in hyperspectral imaging; hyperspectral image super-resolution; hyperspectral image denoising; hyperspectral image unmixing; hyperspectral image classification; hyperspectral anomaly detection

Optical Imaging Innovations and Applications

edited by

Jianying Zhou

and

Joseph Rosen

submission deadline 1 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical imaging; imaging systems; holographic imaging; optical microscopy; coded aperture imaging; digital holography; fiber optics imaging; coherence imaging; coherent and incoherent imaging; speckle imaging

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 10 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 595 | 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)

Optical Sensors for Advanced Biomedical Applications

edited by

Susana O. Catarino

and

Graça Minas

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 369 | Submission Open

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

Optical Networking Technologies for High-Speed Data Transmission

edited by Yixiao Zhu and Xiansong Fang

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 300 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical communications; optical networking; digital signal processing; data-center interconnects; passive optical network; fronthaul; long-haul transmission

(This special issue belongs to the Section Data-Science Based Techniques in Photonics)

Optical Metamaterials for Advanced Optoelectronic Devices

edited by Jining Li, Yue Yang and Dexian Yan

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open

Keywords: metasurfaces; advanced optics; integrated optics; metalens; topological photonics

Innovations in Fiber Laser Technology

edited by

Yi An

, Jiaxin Song and

Hanshuo Wu

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 71 | Submission Open

Keywords: novel optical fibers; functional fiber-based devices; fabrication and characterization techniques of fibers; advances in high-power fiber lasers; pulsed fiber lasers; mid-infrared fiber lasers; beam combination of fiber lasers; nonlinear effects; mode instability; and new phenomena in fiber lasers; mode decomposition and control technique of fiber lasers; beam quality evaluation for fiber lasers; computational modeling and simulation of fiber laser dynamics; fiber laser applications in materials processing; sensing; imaging; and communications

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

Organic Photodetectors, Displays, and Upconverters

edited by Ge Mu and Kangkang Weng

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1142 | Submission Open

Keywords: organic semiconductor; photodetectors; light-emitting diodes; upconverters

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

Innovative Optical Sensing—Materials, Devices and Applications

edited by Ning Li and

Yihong Wang

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 247 | Submission Open

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

Optical Imaging and Measurements: 2nd Edition

edited by Zixin Zhao,

Feifei Gu

and

Gaopeng Zhang

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 98 | Submission Open

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

Advances in Fiber Optical Sensors

edited by

Han Gao

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical fiber sensors; fiber optic biosensors; fiber fabrication; optical fiber design; deep learning; sensing signal demodulation; instrumentation and measurements; fiber-based device

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

Optoelectronic Oscillators (OEO): Principles and Applications

edited by

Wei Li

Sha Zhu

and Yali Zhang

submission deadline 18 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 135 | Submission Open

Keywords: optoelectronic oscillators (OEO); microwave photonics; phase noise; microwave signal generation; optical feedback loop; telecommunications; radars; signal processing; sensor networks

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

Ultrashort Laser Pulses

edited by

Andreas Hoffmann

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6302 | Submission Open

Keywords: ultrashort laser pulses; mode-locking; high-harmonic generation; nonlinear optics; pump-probe spectroscopy; femtosecond; picosecond; attosecond; pulse-shaping; ultrafast optics

Advances in Optical Fiber Sensing Technology

edited by Tao Geng,

Vladimir Tuz

Qiang Ling

and Yiwei Ma

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3204 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical fiber sensors; fiber sensing; signal processing; special fibers; microstructure fibers; micro/nanofibers; functional materials; photorefractive materials

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

Quantum Optics: Science and Applications—2nd Edition

edited by

Peng Xu

and

Hua-Lei Yin

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 375 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantum optics; quantum simulations and calculations; optical field manipulation; quantum metrology; optimization of quantum gates; quantum theory of measurement; quantum key distribution; quantum communication; quantum feedback operations; quantum computing; optomechanical systems; quantum sensing

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

Latest Advances in Optical Diffraction, Imaging and Display

edited by Chenrun Feng,

Yannanqi Li

and Zhiyong Yang

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 173 | 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)

Advances in Silicon Photonics: From Fundamentals to Applications

edited by

Chong Li

and Hui Cong

submission deadline 20 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 120 | Submission Open

Keywords: laser integration; high-speed modulators; phase-shifters for tuning and switching; avalanche photodetectors; quantum photonics; electronic and photonic integration; microresonator physics

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

Adaptive Optics: Technology and Applications

edited by David Alaluf, Noelia Martinez-Rey and Douglas Laidlaw

submission deadline 27 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 70 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical communications; quantum key distribution; space situational awareness; astronomy; adaptive optics; atmospheric turbulence; deformable mirrors; wavefront sensors; laser guide stars; monitoring and forecasting of optical turbulence

Group IV Photonics: Advances and Applications

edited by

and Yan Cai

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4509 | Submission Open

Keywords: group IV photonics; optoelectronics; integration; photonic devices; silicon photonics; germanium photonics; carbon photonics; renewable energy; biomedicine; data storage; programmable photonics; silicon photonics; foundry and manufacturing; integrated quantum photonics; artificial intelligence chip

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

Optical Vortex Laser

edited by

Peng Li

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2622 | Submission Open

Keywords: scalar vortex laser; vector vortex laser; vortex arrays laser; vortex lattices laser; raman vortex laser; intra-cavity frequency-doubled/sum-frequency generation vortex laser; intra-cavity optical parametric vortex laser; cascaded-pumped vortex laser; vortex random fiber laser; kaleidoscope vortex laser

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

Recent Advancements in Tunable Laser Technology

edited by Dário Machado Garcia

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1409 | 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)

Fundamentals, Advances, and Applications in Optical Sensing

edited by Qirui Wang,

Kevin P. Chen

and Min Guo

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 738 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical sensing; fiber optics; optical metrology; light detection and ranging (LiDAR); distributed acoustic sensing (DAS); spectroscopy; interferometry; interrogator

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

Emerging Trends in Spectral Analysis with Optical Sensors: Modern Approaches and Applications

edited by Qichang An and Hongchao Zhao

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 584 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber sensors; astrophotonics; optical instrumentation and measurements; integrated photonics; interferometers; diffraction neural network

(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 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 566 | 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

Optical and Photonic Devices: From Design to Nanofabrication

edited by Wenbo Mao and Zhenzhong Hao

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 545 | Submission Open

Keywords: photonic integrated circuits; metamaterials; 2D photonics; hybrid/heterogenous integration; advanced manufacturing; nanofabrication; optical design

Advanced Optics and Photonics: Additive Manufacturing

edited by

Zhihan Hong

and Gordon Zyla

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 369 | Submission Open

Keywords: glass optics; polymer optics; glass photonics; polymer photonics; additive manufacturing; optical design; photonics crystal fiber

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