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Advances and Applications of Grating

edited by

Di Chang

Xinghui Li

and Zhaowu Liu

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 37 | Submission Open

Keywords: design and simulation of gratings; manufacturing approach; equipment; and process of gratings; test and calibration model; method; and device of gratings; various applications of gratings; novel kinds of gratings such as meta-grating and MOEMS grating

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

Advanced Techniques for Laser Processing

edited by Xiao Jia and

Kewei Li

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 6 | Submission Open

Keywords: laser– material interaction; laser micro/nanofabrication; laser additive manufacturing; laser beam shaping; process monitoring and diagnostics; modeling and simulation; hybrid laser processing techniques

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

Optical Sensing Technologies, Devices and Their Data Applications (2nd Edition)

edited by Yufei Chu, Abu Farzan Mitul, Yuanxian Zhang and Hanqing Guo

submission deadline 10 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 111 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensing; lidar; atmospheric and environmental detection; optical sensors; AI in optical sensing; optofluidics; fluorescence; non-destructive detection; ultrasonic detection; optical sensing data and their applications; frequency comb sensors

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

Advances in Photon-Counting Imaging and Sensing

edited by Yan Kang, Zhe Sun and

Yunkun Zhao

submission deadline 17 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 20 | Submission Open

Keywords: single-photon detectors; 3D imaging and sensing; photon counting; time-correlated single-photon counting; quantum imaging and ghost imaging

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

Microstructured Optical Sensors: Design, Fabrication and Applications

edited by Victor Argueta-Diaz

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 343 | Submission Open

Keywords: microstructured optical sensors; photonic sensor design; sensor fabrication techniques; optical sensing applications; lithography in sensor fabrication; biomedical optical sensors; environmental monitoring sensors; industrial process control sensors; sensor performance optimization; future trends in optical sensing.

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

Silicon Photonics: Challenges and Future Directions

edited by

Bin Ni

and

Shengbao Wu

submission deadline 30 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 140 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrated photonic circuits; silicon photonics; photonic components; heterogeneous integration; optical communication; optical sensing; computing

Next-Generation Optical Fibers: Structural Innovations and Multifaceted Applications in Industry and Healthcare

edited by

Guoqing Wang

, Dongrui Xiao, Jun Hong and

Carlos Marques

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 82 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-core fibers; photonic crystal fibers; hollow-core anti-resonant fibers; meta-surface fibers; biodegradable optical fibers; optical fiber sensing; optical fiber communication; optical fiber hydrophone; biomedical sensing; environmental monitoring

Fiber Optic Sensors: Advances, Technologies and Applications

edited by Qiang Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 8 | Submission Open

Keywords: fiber optic sensors; optical sensing; fiber bragg gratings; distributed sensing; biosensors; signal processing

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

Advances on Applications of Optics and Photonics—Selected Papers from the 7th International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics, AOP2026

edited by

Manuel Filipe P. C. M. Costa

and

Alessandro Fantoni

submission deadline 30 Apr 2027 | Viewed by 49 | Submission Open

Keywords: nano-photonics; plasmonics; theoretical optics; quantum optics; nonlinear optics; optical communications and sensors; optical fibers and applications; biophotonics; biomedical optics; ultrafast lasers and ultrafast optics; power lasers; optical metrology; image processing; industrial applications; optometry; ophthalmic optics; color and visual sciences; optoelectronics; microwave photonics; photonics and optical instrumentation for space and astronomy; optics and photonics for smart mobility and smart cities

Enabling Optical Communication Technologies for Intelligent Computing Networks

edited by Liangjia Zong and

Tong Ye

submission deadline 10 Jul 2027 | Viewed by 47 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical network architecture; optical fiber technology; optical switching; optical algorithm; intelligent optical network

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

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