Next-Generation Photonic Sensors and Platforms

This collection will showcase advances at the convergence of fiber photonics, plasmonics, and emerging photonic architectures, highlighting the rapid evolution of photonic science and engineering. We welcome contributions spanning a broad range of topics, including but not limited to distributed and point fiber-optic sensing, fiber Bragg grating technologies, plasmonic structures for sensing and signal manipulation, metamaterials and metasurfaces, non-Hermitian and topological photonics, integrated photonic devices and platforms, and AI-driven and inverse-design approaches for photonic sensors. Contributions leveraging machine learning, optimization algorithms, and data-driven methods to enable novel sensor functionalities and enhanced performance are particularly encouraged.

Submissions addressing innovative fabrication techniques, new theoretical frameworks, and experimental demonstrations are strongly encouraged. Cross-disciplinary applications, including structural health monitoring, biomedical diagnostics and sensing, telecommunications, and quantum photonics are especially welcome. This Special Topic aims to capture the progression of photonic technologies across scales, from macroscale fiber-based systems to nanoscale photonic structures, while fostering dialogue between communities working in guided-wave optics, nano-optics, and emerging photonic phenomena.

Original research articles, perspectives, comprehensive review papers, and roadmaps are all welcome for consideration.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

Guest Editors:

Prof. Rajan Jha, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India.

Prof. Yosuke Mizuno, Yokohama National University, Japan.

Prof. Christophe Caucheteur, University of Mons, Belgium.

Prof. Lin Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.