About Journal of Lightwave Technology
Since its inception in 1983, this semi-monthly journal, co-sponsored by seven IEEE technical societies and Optica Publishing Group, has published leading work in optical waveguide technologies and their applications, from integrated photonics to optical networks.

Scope of this special issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:
• Fundamental principles and properties of structured light beams
• Technology and device to generate, manipulate and detect OAM light beams
• Micromanipulation using OAM beams, such as optical tweezers, optical trapping, particle acceleration
• Spectroscopy, microscopy, imaging, sensing technology using vortex beams
• Light-matter interaction by vortex beams, including laser machining and nonlinear interactions
• OAM-based spatial mode encoding/multiplexing for quantum cryptography and classical communications
• Comments on the controversy of OAM beams, such as the efficiency of OAM modes compared to other sets of orthogonal
modes.

Guest Editors for this Special Issue are: - Yang Yue, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China – Lead Guest Editor, Cong Liu, Nokia, USA, Antonella Bogoni, Photonic Networks National Laboratory - CNIT, Italy, Ivan B. Djordjevic, University of Arizona, USA 

Submission Deadline: 31 August 2022

Publication: Jan/Feb 2023

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