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Feature Issue of Optics Continuum

Cross-cutting Research Using Structured Light

Submission Opens: 1 February 2024

Submission Deadline: 3 May 2024

Optics Continuum welcomes submissions to a feature issue, "Cross-cutting Research Using Structured Light." Structured light possesses many unique features associated with spatially inhomogeneous amplitude, phase, and polarization distribution. In the last few decades, the unconventional features of structured light have been applied in a myriad of fields such as optical trapping, imaging, laser processing, novel light-matter interactions, optical/quantum communications, and so on. More recently, the inherent potential of various types of structured light are further enabling new research opportunities.

This feature issue will highlight fundamental and applied research, and technical improvements, from a variety of cross-cutting research fields using structured light. It aims to further shed light on the hidden potential of structured light beyond the conventional structured light studies.

The editors welcome submissions from various aspects relating to structured light, including developments of high-quality structured light beams at high efficiency, theoretical or experimental studies to explore new fundamental light-matter interactions and innovative applications utilizing structured light fields. Optics Continuum also welcomes negative results and reproducibility studies providing new physical insights with structured light to the community. This feature issue is expected to play a key role to stimulate future innovation using structured light.

Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:

  • New techniques relating beam shaping, spatial light modulation, and spatiotemporal manipulation of light
  • Theoretical and/or experimental studies on new aspects of structured light
  • Light-matter interaction utilizing structured light beams
  • Laser processing
  • Advanced imaging techniques based on structured light beams
  • Optical trapping and manipulations
  • Classical or quantum communications

All submissions need to present original, previously unpublished work and will be subject to the normal standards and peer review processes of the journal. The standard Optics Continuum Article Processing Charges will apply to all published articles.

Please prepare manuscripts according to the author instructions for submission to Optics Continuum and submit through the Prism submission system, specifying from the drop-down menu that the manuscript is for the feature issue on Cross-cutting Research Using Structured Light.

Feature Editors

Yuichi Kozawa, Tohoku University, Japan (Lead Editor)

Ryuji Morita, Hokkaido University, Japan

Daryl C. Preece, University of California Irvine, USA

Jacquiline Romero, University of Queensland, Australia

Rakesh K. Singh, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India

Jung-Chen Tung, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan