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Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics: Concepts in Modern Optics

Advanced Functional Materials for Optoelectronics, Photonics and Energy Applications

Lead Guest Editor: Bouchta Sahraoui
Guest Editors: Anna Zawadzka, Halyna Myronchuk, Ashok K. Ganguli, Youssef El Kouari
Submission deadline: March 15, 2027

Aims and Scope

This special issue highlights recent advances in the design, synthesis, fabrication, characterization, and theoretical modeling of functional materials for optoelectronics, photonics, and sustainable energy technologies. It welcomes original research articles and critical reviews that address fundamental scientific questions, emerging material systems, new optical phenomena, and innovative applications.

Particular emphasis is placed on how composition, molecular and crystal structure, and electronic properties determine a material’s optical response, and on strategies that improve optical and optoelectronic performance through molecular engineering, nanostructuring, interface design, and advanced fabrication.

Contributions that combine experiment with theory and computation, including density functional theory (DFT), multiscale modeling, and machine-learning or AI-assisted materials discovery, are especially encouraged, as is interdisciplinary work that connects fundamental material properties to photonic, optoelectronic, and energy technologies.

The issue is planned as a coherent whole rather than a collection of independent papers. Contributions are chosen so that together they tell a complete story: one paper may describe how a material is synthesized or fabricated, another how its optical properties are characterized, and a third how it performs in a device. Prospective authors are encouraged to contact the lead guest editor early to discuss how their work fits into the issue.

Topics of Interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  1. Advanced functional materials: organic, inorganic, hybrid, semiconductor, chalcogenide, perovskite, two-dimensional, and nanostructured materials, and multifunctional nanocomposites.
  2. Linear and nonlinear optical properties: second- and third-order nonlinearities; second- and third-harmonic generation (SHG, THG); multiphoton absorption; optical limiting; nonlinear refraction; ultrafast optical response; and laser–matter interactions.
  3. Photonics and nanophotonics: integrated photonics, photonic crystals, plasmonics, metasurfaces, optical waveguides, laser materials, random lasing, and all-optical switching and modulation.
  4. Optoelectronic materials and devices: organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), light-emitting materials, photodetectors, optical sensors, and semiconductor and emerging optoelectronic devices.
  5. Photovoltaic and light-harvesting materials: organic, hybrid, and perovskite solar cells; light-harvesting systems; photoactive nanomaterials; and emerging solar-energy technologies.
  6. Energy conversion and storage: photocatalysis, photoelectrochemical systems, solar hydrogen generation, and optically active materials for energy conversion and storage.
  7. Characterization and computational methods: ultrafast spectroscopy; nonlinear optical characterization, including Z-scan and Maker-fringe techniques; DFT and molecular modeling; and machine learning and AI-assisted materials design.
Types of Contributions
  • Original research articles reporting significant advances in functional materials, their optical properties, and their photonic or optoelectronic applications.
  • Critical reviews that survey recent developments, current challenges, and future research directions (see NLOQO Critical Reviews).
  • Interdisciplinary contributions that combine experimental, theoretical, and computational approaches.
Lead Guest Editor

Bouchta Sahraoui
University of Angers
Photonics Laboratory LPhiA – SFR MATRIX
Angers, France
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Guest Editors

Anna Zawadzka
Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics
Centre for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Institute of Advanced Studies
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
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Halyna Myronchuk
Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University
Lutsk, Ukraine
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Ashok K. Ganguli
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)
Berhampur, India
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Youssef El Kouari
Faculty of Sciences and Techniques (FST)
Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco
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Important Dates

Submissions open: December 10, 2026
Submission deadline: March 15, 2027
Expected publication: second half of 2027 (tentative)

How to Submit

Prepare your manuscript according to the NLOQO Notes for Contributors and email it as a PDF directly to the lead guest editor, Bouchta Sahraoui (bouchta.sahraoui@univ-angers.fr), with “NLOQO Special Issue: Advanced Functional Materials” in the subject line. Please state in the cover letter that the manuscript is submitted to this special issue. The lead guest editor decides whether each submission fits the issue, and manuscripts accepted for consideration are peer reviewed according to the journal’s standard procedures.

The guest editors and the editors of Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics: Concepts in Modern Optics invite your contributions.

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