AI for Photonics: Intelligent Imaging, Learning-Driven Optics, and Photonic Computing
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Data-Science Based Techniques in Photonics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editors
Interests: AI for photonics; lensless fiber endomicroscopy; digital holography; optical trapping; optical tomography; wavefront shaping
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Interests: nonlinear optics; high power laser; stimulated Brillouin scattering; solid-state laser; spectral imaging; microimaging
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Interests: adaptive optics; wavefront sensing; laser communication; flow measurements
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Interests: intelligent photonics; physics-informed deep learning; multimode fiber; optical computing; wavefront shaping; optical communication
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
AI for photonics replaces handcrafted optics with learning-driven design and closed-loop control, delivering faster development and robust performance in complex environments. It enables inverse-designed devices, adaptive wavefront shaping, intelligent imaging, and reliable control of nonlinear/high-power lasers—shrinking the gap from lab prototypes to real-world systems.
This Special Issue on “AI for Photonics: Intelligent Imaging, Learning-Driven Optics, and Photonic Computing” welcomes basic, methodological, and applied contributions, as regular and review papers, covering (but not limited to):
- Development and validation of AI-enhanced microscopic or imaging instruments;
- Modelling of light–matter interactions and learning-based methods;
- Processing of multidimensional optical data using machine-learning methods;
- Development of multimodal, multispectral, and multiscale approaches;
- Advancement of adaptive optics and wavefront shaping in complex media and links;
- Optical computing methods or optical neural networks.
We look forward to contributions that connect rigorous physical modelling with data-driven intelligence, and that demonstrate compelling progress from fundamental concepts to robust, real-world photonic systems.
Dr. Jiawei Sun
Dr. Zhaohong Liu
Dr. Zeyu Gao
Dr. Qian Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- AI for photonics and learning-driven optics
- inverse design and differentiable photonics
- adaptive optics and wavefront sensing or shaping
- digital holography and computational imaging
- lensless and fiber endomicroscopy
- optical tomography and quantitative phase imaging
- optical neural networks and photonic computing
- nonlinear optics and high-power or solid-state lasers
- stimulated Brillouin scattering and Raman sensing
- physics-informed machine learning and digital twins
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