Special Issues

Photonics publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Progress in Neurophotonics and Its Future Perspectives submission deadline 30 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7182 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics)
Resonant Nanophotonics and Nanodevices
edited by Chaobiao Zhou and Sha Xiong
submission deadline 30 May 2024 | Viewed by 146 | Submission Open
Keywords: bound states in the continuum; optical microcavity; metasurfaces; toroidal dipole resoance; anapole modes; optical devices; phase change materials; nonlinear optics; strong coupling
Optical Technologies Supporting 5G/6G Mobile Networks submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8842 | Submission Open
Keywords: xhaul; optical backhaul; optical fronthaul; midhaul; digitized radio-over-fiber; analogue radio-over-fiber; optical 5G/6G core; radio-fiber technique; optical O-RAN; photonics antenna; fiber-optic beamforming; microwave photonics; optical slicing; TSON; Li-Fi connection; VLC; all-optical radio transport network; optical RRH/RU; radio-over-ethernet-over-fiber; multicore fibers for O-RAN; radio-over-PON
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems)
THz Imaging and Spectroscopy
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8705 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)
Novel Advances in Optical Communications
edited by Xiaolong Pan, Li Zhipei and
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 8585 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
Integrated Waveguide-Based Photonic Devices
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8219 | 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
Photonic Devices Based on Plasmonic or Dielectric Nanostructures
edited by and Braulio García-Cámara
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6368 | Submission Open
Keywords: plasmonic; dielectric; nanostructures; phase-change materials; liquid crystals; switchers; filters; solar cells; detectors; holograms; sensors
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
Brain Photobiomodulation: Searching for Predictive Target Engagement submission deadline 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 5104 | Submission Open
Keywords: transcranial photobiomodulation; low-level light therapy; major depressive disorder; anxiety disorders; Alzheimer’ s disease; Down syndrome; bipolar disorder; brain injury; sexual dysfunction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics)
Advances and Applications of Solid State Lasers
edited by Ivan I. Kuznetsov and Ivan Buchvarov
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3770 | Submission Open
Keywords: high-average-power lasers; high-peak power lasers; ultrafast lasers; laser amplifiers; ytterbium lasers; neodymium lasers; diode-pumped lasers; crystalline waveguides; mid-IR lasers; UV lasers; thermal effects; faraday isolators; laser applications
Advanced Semiconductor Laser Diodes and Detectors
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2454 | Submission Open
Keywords: semiconductor laser diode; interband cascade laser; quantum cascade laser; type II superlattice; MCT; semiconductor detector
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Advances in Structured Light Generation and Manipulation
edited by , Bretsko Mikhail Vladimirovich and
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1461 | Submission Open
Keywords: structured light; tailored light; shaped light; structured illumination; orbital angular momentum; vortices; structured polarization
Advances in X-ray Optics for High-Resolution Imaging
edited by Yang Du and Yaohu Lei
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1142 | Submission Open
Keywords: X-ray imaging; X-ray optics; high resolution; detectors; microscopy; fluoroscopy; spectroscopy; ultrafast; X-ray astronomy; EUV/neutron imaging
Next-Generation Free-Space Optical Communication Technology
edited by Siyuan Yu, and Xiaonan Yu
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 885 | Submission Open
Keywords: free-space optical communication; space optical communication systems; optical wireless communication; space optical modulation techniques; space optical detection
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
Optics and Laser: Light Field Manipulation
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 760 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Latest Advancements in Science, Engineering and Applications of Hyperspectral Imaging
edited by Costas Balas
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 219 | Submission Open
Keywords: scanning; snapshot; compact; video-rate (hyper-) spectral imagers; supervised and unsupervised spectral cube data classifiers; dimensionality reduction/expansion of spectral cube data; (hyper-) spectral imaging-based monitoring/inspection; artificial vision; medical diagnosis; material identification; nondestructive analysis
Progress in Specialty Optical Fibers and Future Prospects
edited by Stephanos Yerolatsitis and Kerrianne Harrington
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 212 | Submission Open
Keywords: hollow-core fibers; multicore fibers; specialty optical fibers; complex refractive index profiles; microstructured fibers; non-uniform optical fibers
New Shining Spots in Biomedical Photonics
edited by Jihad Zallat and Jean Rehbinder
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Biophotonics and Biomedical Optics)
Nanoplasmonics: Emerging Field of Nanophotonics
edited by Weijie Kong and Guoyu Luo
submission deadline 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 107 | 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
Design and Applications of Polarized Optical System
edited by Ying Zhang
submission deadline 1 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1167 | Submission Open
Keywords: design of polarization optical system; polarization calibration; polarization image processing; polarization defogging; polarization modulation device; polarization detector; multi-angle polarization detection; multi-spectral polarization detection; applications of polarized optical system
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
Novel Ultraviolet Laser: Generation, Properties and Applications
edited by , and
submission deadline 1 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 773 | Submission Open
Keywords: UV laser generation; fourth and fifth harmonic generation; sum frequency generation for UV laser; supercontinuum and few-cycle laser pulse generation reach to UV range; UV lithography; UV imaging and tomography; UV precision machining; UV nano-microfabrication; UV synthesis of particle; UV polymerization; DUV disinfection and sterilization; UV photoelectron spectroscopy; UV breakdown spectroscopy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Silicon and Silicon Nitride Integrated Photonics: Challenges and Opportunities
edited by and
submission deadline 10 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5870 | Submission Open
Keywords: photonic device design and optimization; fabrication techniques and characterization; integrated nonlinear optics; integration of silicon and silicon nitride photonics with other material systems; on-chip communication and signal processing; quantum information processing; biosensing applications; electronic– photonic integration and system-level design; integrated visible/MIR photonics; market trends and industry challenges
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
Research on Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers
edited by Nasser Peyghambarian and Xiushan Zhu
submission deadline 10 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 961 | Submission Open
Keywords: fiber lasers; rare-earth-doped fibers; continuous-wave fiber lasers; pulsed fiber lasers; mode-locked fiber lasers; visible fiber lasers; upconversion fiber lasers; mid-infrared fiber lasers; fiber-laser-pumped nonlinear conversion lasers; single-frequency fiber lasers; multicore fiber lasers; phosphate fiber lasers; germanate fiber lasers; fluoride fiber lasers; chalcogenide fiber lasers
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Laser Technology and Applications
edited by Li Zhong
submission deadline 10 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 903 | Submission Open
Keywords: high-power laser; high-brightness laser; ultrashort pulse laser; attosecond laser technology; narrow linewidth; single-frequency laser; frequency combs; ultraviolet laser; mid-infrared laser; semiconductor lasers
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Joint Fiber-Optic Communications and Sensing
edited by Patryk Urban
submission deadline 10 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 286 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical fiber sensors in communication infrastructure; in-service fiber monitoring; distributed sensing; reflectometry; interferometry; remote network supervision; optical instrumentation and measurement; long-haul network; metro network; access network; passive optical network; point-to-point network architecture; point-to-multipoint network architecture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
Micro-Nano Optical Devices
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jun 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 13870 | Submission Open
Keywords: micro-nano-optical structures; microcavity; grating; quantum dots; quantum well; lasers; LEDS; dispersion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
Optical Communication, Sensing and Network
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jun 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 9884 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
Specialty Optical Fibers and Their High-Power Applications
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3026 | Submission Open
Keywords: specialty optical fibers design; specialty optical fibers fabrication; photonic crystal; microstructured; and hollow core fibers; large mode area fiber; fiber lasers and amplifiers
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Next-Generation Adaptive Nonlinear Equalization Algorithm Using Machine Learning for High-Speed Optical Communication
edited by and Xueyang Li
submission deadline 15 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 975 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)
Silicon Photonics Packaging: Connecting Photonic Integrated Circuits with the Outside World submission deadline 15 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 600 | Submission Open
Keywords: Si photonics; photonic packaging; co-packaged optics; optical fiber; semiconductor laser; micro-optics; MEMS
New Advances in Semiconductor Optoelectronic Materials and Devices
edited by Min Li and Shuo Deng
submission deadline 15 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open
Keywords: optoelectronic materials; semiconductor; optoelectronic device; synthesis; characterization; modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
Single Frequency Fiber Lasers and Their Applications submission deadline 20 Jun 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9245 | Submission Open
Keywords: fiber optics; fiber lasers; single-frequency operation; narrow-linewidth; optical filters; multi-wavelength operation; single-frequency amplifiers; applications of single-frequency fiber laser
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
New Advances in Optical Wireless Communication
edited by Xiaolin Zhou
submission deadline 20 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3826 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical wireless communications; signal processing; channel estimation; optical devices
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
Laser as a Detection: From Spectral Imaging to LiDAR for Remote Sensing Applications submission deadline 20 Jun 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3595 | Submission Open
Keywords: laser detection; LiDAR; laser spectroscopy; remote sensing; optical design
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems)
Levitated Optomechanics
edited by and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2531 | Submission Open
Keywords: levitated particles; launching; feedback cooling; precision sensing
New Perspectives in Optical Design and Stray Light Suppression of Coronagraph
edited by Hongxin Zhang and Ming-zhe Sun
submission deadline 20 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 154 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical system design; observation instrumentation; solar observation methodologies; stray light analysis and suppression; optical system installation
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Photonics Sensors submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 17 articles | Viewed by 25356 | Submission Open
Keywords: fiber optic sensors; interferometric sensors; resonance-based sensors; plasmonic sensors; fluorescence; luminescence; absorption; spectroscopy; physical sensors; mechanical sensors; chemical sensors and biosensors; nanostructured materials and coatings; surface functionalization procedures; microfluidics; lab on chip; sensor packaging; sensor interrogation and instrumentation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Advanced Photonic Sensing and Measurement II
edited by , and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 22 articles | Viewed by 19918 | Submission Open
Keywords: photonics; sensing; measurement; optical fiber sensors; biophotonics; quantum optics; nanosensors; remote sensing; terahertz; optical instrumentation; photonic devices; interferometers; microwave photonic sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Emerging Topics in High-Power Laser and Light–Matter Interactions
edited by , and Sensen Li
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 7726 | Submission Open
Keywords: high-power laser technology and applications; optical neural networks and machine learning in optics; fiber-optic sensing and communication; adaptive optics and wavefront shaping; short pulse laser; brillouin scattering and its applications; solid-state laser systems and their applications; spectral imaging and its applications; quantum imaging and quantum optics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)
Photonics Integration on Silicon-on-Insulator and Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Platforms
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3664 | Submission Open
Keywords: integrated photonics; silicon on insulator; thin-film lithium niobate/lithium niobate on insulator
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
Coherence Manipulation, Propagation and Applications of Vortex Beam
edited by and Jinhong Li
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3023 | Submission Open
Keywords: vortex beams; light manipulation; coherence; coherence structure; beam propagation; atmospheric turbulence; optical trapping; information transmission
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)
Optical Technology for Challenging Conditions:Methods and Applications
edited by , Jing Wu, Hongyuan Wang and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2166 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical imaging; complex media; adverse weather conditions; wavefront shaping
(This special issue belongs to the Section New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems)
Novel Advances in Integrated Optics
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2158 | Submission Open
Recent Progress in Ultrafast Laser
edited by , Yufeng Song and Xingliang Li
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1549 | Submission Open
Keywords: lasers; ultrashort pulse; mode-locked laser; soliton; nonlinear optics; photonics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Advances in Ultrafast Laser Science and Applications
edited by Shuai Yuan, Mengyun Hu, and Cang Jin
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1538 | Submission Open
Keywords: ultrafast laser science; soliton generation; ultrafast laser spectroscopy; ultrafast laser imaging; ultrafast phenomena; surface plasmon resonance; ultrashort pulse writing; THz science; chemical reactions by ultrafast pulses; orbital angular momentum generation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Recent Advances in Optical Metamaterials and Metasurfaces
edited by Yeming Qing and Yunxia Wang
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1140 | Submission Open
Keywords: metamaterials; metasurfaces; metadevices; space– time modulation; nonreciprocal photonics; nanoantennas; quantum metamaterials; topological physics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
Emerging Technologies for 6G Space Optical Communication Networks
edited by and Qifu Sun
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 966 | Submission Open
Keywords: 6G; space-based networks; non-territorial networks; optical communications; optical transceivers; wireless networks; space optical communication networks; coding theory and applications; quantum communication and quantum key distribution (QKD); system design; case studies; testbeds; prototypes; model validation; applications; implementation and experimental evaluations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optical Communication and Network)
State-of-the-Art in Optical Materials
edited by Robert Chapman and Viola V. Vogler-Neuling
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 730 | Submission Open
Keywords: optical materials; crystals; nonlinear optics; nanofabrication; lithography; photonic crystals; photonics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Optoelectronics and Optical Materials)
Ultrafast Pulsed Fiber Laser and Applications
edited by , and Bo Guo
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 463 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Lasers, Light Sources and Sensors)
Enhanced Sensing Performance in Optical Fibers
edited by and Zhenshi Sun
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 379 | Submission Open
Keywords: fiber-optical sensor; distributed sensing system; AI-driven fiber sensors; novel fiber structure; FBGs; optic– electronic detection techniques; smart city fiber networks
Advances in Scattering Imaging and Single-Pixel/Ghost Imaging
edited by Dong Wang
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 164 | Submission Open
Keywords: imaging through scattering media; tracking through scattering media; scattering lens; single-pixel imaging; ghost imaging; phase imaging; wavefront; single-pixel holography
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